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Making the world safe for objects
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Linux pre-built: fails to start gui on ubuntu18.04.2 x86-64 #127

Closed stacksmith closed 5 years ago

stacksmith commented 5 years ago

1) unknown font: verdana. I don't think any Linux includes a Microsoft font. I installed it, but the complaint continued. I am not sure how to fix this. 2) The documentation talks about 'clean.self' image... There is no such thing in the distribution - I am assuming that core.snap is it... I was trying morphic and kitchensink for 1) 3) ia32-libs are not normally installed anymore; I think that the following fixes it. This should be mentioned somewhere... dpkg --add-architecture i386 apt update apt install libc6:i386 apt install ia32-libs apt install libxrender1:i386 libxtst6:i386 libxi6:i386 apt install libncurses:i386

stacksmith commented 5 years ago

Installed MS TrueType fonts with sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer - same deal, unknown font: verdana. I am at a loss

russellallen commented 5 years ago

The font is just a warning and shouldn't prevent startup. Installing the TrueType fonts won't work because Self is looking for client side fonts (aka original X fonts).

Can you paste in what your terminal is showing? ie what do you type and what response is given?

stacksmith commented 5 years ago 
stack@green:~/Documents/Self/Self-Release-2017.1$ ./Self -s morphic.snap
for I386:  LogVMMessages = true
for I386:  PrintScriptName  = true
for I386:  Inline = true
for I386:  SICDeferUncommonBranches = false (not implemented)
for I386:  SICReplaceOnStack = false (not implemented)
for I386:  SaveOutgoingArgumentsOfPatchedFrames = true

    Welcome to the Self system!  (2017.1/2)

Copyright 1992-2016 AUTHORS.
See the legal/LICENSE file for license information and legal/AUTHORS for authors.

Type _Credits for full credits.

[Tue May 07 15:56:10 2019] info -- Scheduler started (according to snapshotAction schedulerInitial)
"Self 1" [Tue May 07 15:56:10 2019] info -- Adjusting VM for better UI2 performance:  _MaxPICSize: 25
unknown font: verdana
doublec commented 5 years ago

At the Self prompt you have above, enter "desktop open" and the GUI should run.

stacksmith commented 5 years ago

I am a fool - the gui is up - got buried under other windows. I was expecting something to come to the top, and the missing font message threw me. Sorry!

russellallen commented 5 years ago

No worries - glad it's working

stacksmith commented 5 years ago

I found this deep inside....https://github.com/russellallen/self/blob/master/release/notes.txt Since this lists the required i386 libraries for running on modern Ubuntu distros - perhaps you could put it into the top readme...