Bug 32262 - CodeBlocks was removed from Mageia 9, needs a solution for lacking avr-gcc to come back
Summary: CodeBlocks was removed from Mageia 9, needs a solution for lacking avr-gcc to...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 9
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: High critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David GEIGER
QA Contact:
URL:
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Keywords: IN_ERRATA9
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2023-09-07 22:15 CEST by Kenneth Marcy
Modified: 2024-10-12 16:41 CEST (History)
9 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: cross-avr-gcc, codeblocks-20.03-4.1.mga8.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment: mga9 is waiting for an update if mga10 version is OK


Attachments

Description Kenneth Marcy 2023-09-07 22:15:28 CEST
Description of problem:
While launching CodeBlocks from MageiaWelcome an assert error appeared.

./src/gtk/choice.cpp(284): ""Assert failure"" failed in GetString(): Invalid index

After clicking the Backtrace button in th error dialog, I found the following:

ASSERT INFO:
./src/gtk/choice.cpp(284): assert ""Assert failure"" failed in GetString(): invalid index

BACKTRACE:
[1] wxChoice::GetString(unsigned int) const
[2] FileExplorer::WriteConfig()
[3] FileExplorer::~FileExplorer()
[4] FileExplorer::~FileExplorer()
[5] FileManagerPlugin::OnRelease(bool)
[6] cbPlugin::Release(bool)
[7] PluginManager::DetachPlugin(cbPlugin*)
[8] PluginManager::UnloadPlugin(cbPlugin*)
[9] PluginManager::UnloadAllPlugins()
[10] PluginManager::~PluginManager()
[11] PluginManager::~PluginManager()
[12] Manager::Shutdown()
[13] wxStringTokenizer::~wxStringTokenizer()
[14] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventIfMatchesId(wxEventTableEntryBase const&, wxEvtHandler*, wxEvent&)
[15] wxEventHashTable::HandleEvent(wxEvent&, wxEvtHandler*)
[16] wxEvtHandler::TryHereOnly(wxEvent&)
[17] wxEvtHandler::DoTryChain(wxEvent&)
[18] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[19] wxEvtHandler::SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[20] wxWindowBase::Close(bool)
[21] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventIfMatchesId(wxEventTableEntryBase const&, wxEvtHandler*, wxEvent&)
[22] wxEventHashTable::HandleEvent(wxEvent&, wxEvtHandler*)
[23] wxEvtHandler::TryHereOnly(wxEvent&)
[24] wxEvtHandler::DoTryChain(wxEvent&)
[25] wxEvtHandler::ProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[26] wxWindowBase::TryAfter(wxEvent&)
[27] wxEvtHandler::SafelyProcessEvent(wxEvent&)
[28] wxMenuBase::DoProcessEvent(wxMenuBase*, wxEvent&, wxWindow*)
[29] wxMenuBase::SendEvent(int, int)
[30] g_closure_invoke
[31] g_signal_emit_valist
[32] g_signal_emit
[33] gtk_widget_activate
[34] gtk_menu_shell_activate_item
[35] g_signal_emit_valist
[36] g_signal_emit
[37] gtk_main_do_event
[38] g_main_context_dispatch
[39] g_main_loop_run
[40] gtk_main
[41] wxGUIEventLoop::DoRun()
[42] wxEventLoopBase::Run()
[43] wxAppConsoleBase::MainLoop()
[44] wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**)
[45] __libc_start_main 

After the error message was dismissed, CodeBlocks was open, so I proceeded to create a new console application. The data entry ended when a message that the selected directory could not be created. So I stopped.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Whichever versions of MageiaWelcome and CodeBlocks shipped with the new Mageia 9

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. start konsole
2. enter mageiawelcome, press enter
3. wait for error dialog to appear
4. click on backtrace, then copy to clipboard
5. paste into email and Bugzilla
Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2023-09-12 21:53:08 CEST
Thank you for the report. Which is enigmatic.

>  While launching CodeBlocks from MageiaWelcome
Not sure what you meant by this - ah, I see now:
MageiaWelcome-Programs-Programming-CodeBlocks !

I cannot find CodeBlocks anywhere in our M9 repositories! But very many icons for it. Is it a carry-forward from upgrading Mageia 8 to 9? Or I have a mirror problem.

Trying the Welcome 'install' button for it soon says there is no such package. This probably needs fixing (to remove).

Your report implies that you not only have it installed, but tried to run it from Welcome. If you do indeed have it,
- How did you install it?
- Please give the rpm ID (from rpm -q codeblocks).
- Does it work from the application menu?
- Does it work from the command line?
- Does it only fail as you describe if launched from Welcome?

CC: (none) => lewyssmith

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2023-09-12 23:15:16 CEST
I also cannot find it in mga9.
madb say it is in mga8 and cauldron *) as .mga9
https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/name/codeblocks/release/cauldron/arch/x86_64

And no recent bug about it.

So it should be available.

CC registered packager.


---

...and i have already asked to add Mageia 9 release distribution to madb
https://ml.mageia.org/l/arc/qa-discuss/2023-09/msg00069.html

Maybe i should create a bug instead, but set to what?

CC: (none) => cvargas, fri

Comment 3 Morgan Leijström 2023-09-12 23:50:01 CEST
So in what repo to put this codeblocks (and any deps) rpm?

We may not alter release repo.

backport is not right - one reason being it will not be found easily and not with mageiawelcome unless user enables backport.

So best put it in in updates.

---

@Kenneth:

Codeblocks is also not in cauldron repos, and the Mageia 8 version (latest in updates) need deps not available in suitable version on mga9.  You could experiment with that, or 
install codeblocks using https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Flatpak
Comment 4 Dave Hodgins 2023-09-13 05:01:31 CEST
It's been removed from svn for m9, but is in present in cauldron.
https://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/codeblocks/

The last info about it in the dev ml is
Le 2023-06-25 16:13, Jani Välimaa a écrit :
Please move codeblocks-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9 to core/release.
 It's just a rebuild with parallel builds limited to 8 to fix an
autobuild failure.
done

Did that build fail too?

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Assignee: bugsquad => cvargas

Comment 5 Morgan Leijström 2023-09-13 08:12:05 CEST
Asking Jani

CC: (none) => jani.valimaa

Comment 6 Lewis Smith 2023-09-13 20:35:56 CEST
Indeed I now see it in Cauldron:
 new version: 20.03, Mar 2020
 update to latest upstream svn snapshot, Apr 2022
plus regular activity between times. So it clearly exists.

I think we need answers to the questions in comment 1, notwithstanding.
Comment 7 David GEIGER 2023-09-14 07:34:00 CEST
Hmmmm! I don't know why and how it is possible but it seems that by mistake codeblocks was retired from repo!

Once our Build System fixed I'll restore back codeblocks for mga9 and cauldron too.

CC: (none) => geiger.david68210

Morgan Leijström 2023-09-14 14:48:17 CEST

Priority: Normal => High
Keywords: (none) => IN_ERRATA9
Summary: While launching CodeBlocks from MageiaWelcome an assert error appeared. => CodeBlocks was removed from Mageia 9 by accident, will be back

Comment 8 Lewis Smith 2023-09-14 20:52:27 CEST
Comments 2 & 4 (CC then Assign) re Cesar Vargas: I suspect that he is no longer active with us.
Not for the first time, because DavidG is on board and doing something about this (previous comment; and as usual many thanks), he wins the bug assignment!

Assignee: cvargas => geiger.david68210

Comment 9 Kenneth Marcy 2023-09-15 01:34:44 CEST
> Trying the Welcome 'install' button for it soon says there is no such package.
> This probably needs fixing (to remove).
From inside MageiaWelcome my machine shows a Launch button, not an Install button.
> Your report implies that you not only have it installed, but tried to run it
> from Welcome. If you do indeed have it,
> - How did you install it?

Some months ago with Mageia 8 operating I installed CodeBlocks without incident through the Add/Remove Programs application. I played with it for a little while, but fell back into old habits with command line vim and g++. So, it sat on the platter until the Mageia 9 distribution upgrade completed, and I began to explore what had been delivered.

> - Please give the rpm ID (from rpm -q codeblocks).

codeblocks-20.03-4.1.mga8

Also, in the search results of the software management application, entering codeblock returns a second file, lib64codeblocks0, with the same release, version, and architecture, with a note that it is a shared library for codeblocks.

> - Does it work from the application menu?

Yes, it did just a moment ago, but now I can't see the development line in the menu. This is an on-going challenge with my machine's menu system, and it's probably a different conversation than this one. Very frustrating, though.

> - Does it work from the command line?

Starting Code::Blocks Release 20.03  rev 11997 Jan  5 2022, 16:51:54 - wx3.1.5 - gcc 10.3.0 (Linux, unicode) - 64 bit
This is the response it gave me just now, but I had just closed CodeBlocks with an X-box click before moving to Konsole.

> - Does it only fail as you describe if launched from Welcome?

No, it consistently fails with the error message I mentioned in the bug report, and will give list of errors from the traceback button.

At this moment, though, it is telling me that it is configured to run only one instance of itself, and that I need to adjust the environment section if I want different behavior.
Comment 10 Lewis Smith 2023-09-15 21:06:51 CEST
Thank you for answering all those questions.
Because Welcome shows a 'launch' button for CodeBlocks, Welcome must recognise that CodeBlocks is installed.

> it consistently fails with the error message I mentioned in the bug report
Your intitial report says it fails on launching from Welcome; the previous comment indicates that it works to some extent from the application menu; what happens from the command line is unclear. Never mind, we are dealing with an unsure package.
It is probably referring to things that have changed since M8.

I think we should wait until DavidG has got it back into Mageia 9.

Source RPM: (none) => codeblocks-20.03-4.1.mga8.src.rpm

Comment 11 David GEIGER 2023-09-17 09:06:59 CEST
Assigning to QA,

Packages in 9/Core/Updates_testing:
======================
codeblocks-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9
libcodeblocks-devel-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9
lib64codeblocks-devel-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9
libcodeblocks0-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9
lib64codeblocks0-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9

From SRPMS:
codeblocks-20.03^svn12803-4.mga9.src.rpm

Assignee: geiger.david68210 => qa-bugs

Comment 12 Lewis Smith 2023-09-17 21:31:56 CEST
Great job David.

@QA
As well as testing that it can be installed to work, it will be worth cross-checking the original complaint about it not launching from MageiaWelcome.
And once validated, that once it gets into Core ? Updates, it can be seen & installed like any other package.

CC: lewyssmith => (none)

Comment 13 sturmvogel 2023-10-03 15:24:27 CEST
A user in the german forum reported that codeblocks needs cross-avr-gcc to compile a program. It throws an error and asks for the missing avr-gcc.

TV obsoleted cross-avr-gcc and broke codeblocks in this way...
Comment 14 Marja Van Waes 2023-10-12 18:31:07 CEST
(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #13)
> A user in the german forum reported that codeblocks needs cross-avr-gcc to
> compile a program. It throws an error and asks for the missing avr-gcc.
> 
> TV obsoleted cross-avr-gcc and broke codeblocks in this way...

So re-adding codeblocks is useless?

CC'ing tv

CC: (none) => marja11, thierry.vignaud

Comment 15 katnatek 2023-10-13 00:41:13 CEST
(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #13)
> A user in the german forum reported that codeblocks needs cross-avr-gcc to
> compile a program. It throws an error and asks for the missing avr-gcc.
> 
> TV obsoleted cross-avr-gcc and broke codeblocks in this way...

In fedora, I see avr-gcc & avr-gcc-c++, maybe we need to import that and replace the cross-avr-gcc requires/recommends to avr-gcc
Marja Van Waes 2023-10-16 11:59:09 CEST

Keywords: (none) => feedback

Marja Van Waes 2023-10-16 12:01:35 CEST

Summary: CodeBlocks was removed from Mageia 9 by accident, will be back => CodeBlocks was removed from Mageia 9, needs a solution for lacking avr-gcc to come back

Comment 16 Morgan Leijström 2023-10-16 14:49:57 CEST
(In reply to Marja Van Waes from comment #14)
> (In reply to sturmvogel from comment #13)
> > A user in the german forum reported that codeblocks needs cross-avr-gcc to
> > compile a program. It throws an error and asks for the missing avr-gcc.
> > 
> > TV obsoleted cross-avr-gcc and broke codeblocks in this way...
> 
> So re-adding codeblocks is useless?

I guess it is only broken for compiling to AVR microcontrollers?

But of course it is a popular usage we like to support.
Comment 17 David GEIGER 2023-10-22 12:24:36 CEST
cross-avr-gcc-12.3.0-1.mga10 now again available on Cauldron.

Can someone confirm if codeblocks works properly with cross-avr-gcc-12.3.0-1.mga10? So I can restore also cross-avr-gcc for mga9.
Marja Van Waes 2023-12-16 13:42:28 CET

Source RPM: codeblocks-20.03-4.1.mga8.src.rpm => cross-avr-gcc, codeblocks-20.03-4.1.mga8.src.rpm

PC LX 2023-12-21 23:40:43 CET

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 18 Morgan Leijström 2024-02-13 15:08:33 CET
Any news?

Status comment: (none) => mga9 is waiting for an update if mga10 version is OK

Comment 19 Mike Rambo 2024-05-22 18:22:36 CEST
I installed and tested codeblocks-20.03^svn12803-4 on mga10. The installation pulled in five other library packages but cross-avr-gcc was not one of them. Codeblocks still started and ran without cross-avr-gcc but did show an message at start that no compiler had been selected. After manually installing cross-avr-gcc-12.3.0-1 codeblocks then started without the no compiler message.

It looks like codeblocks works but may need to fixed to pull in the cross-avr-gcc package.

I only started codeblocks (from cli) and watched for messages or errors. I don't know how to use it so function was not tested beyond making sure menus opened and loading a .c file to make sure it could be loaded and displayed.

Hope this helps.

CC: (none) => mhrambo3501

Comment 20 katnatek 2024-05-22 18:55:06 CEST
(In reply to Mike Rambo from comment #19)
> I installed and tested codeblocks-20.03^svn12803-4 on mga10. The
> installation pulled in five other library packages but cross-avr-gcc was not
> one of them. Codeblocks still started and ran without cross-avr-gcc but did
> show an message at start that no compiler had been selected. After manually
> installing cross-avr-gcc-12.3.0-1 codeblocks then started without the no
> compiler message.
> 
> It looks like codeblocks works but may need to fixed to pull in the
> cross-avr-gcc package.
> 
> I only started codeblocks (from cli) and watched for messages or errors. I
> don't know how to use it so function was not tested beyond making sure menus
> opened and loading a .c file to make sure it could be loaded and displayed.
> 
> Hope this helps.

Helps a lot, look that need to return to David to fix thank you

Keywords: feedback => (none)
Assignee: qa-bugs => geiger.david68210

Comment 21 Morgan Leijström 2024-10-12 16:41:13 CEST
ping.

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