ASP2 32 bits corrupts Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64

[FalCT60]

Hello,

Due to the lack of plugins on the 64 bits version of ASP2, I reverted to the 32 bits one.
Of course, it didn't install and complained about missing dependancies but, after a quick search I found it could be done installing libglapi-mesa:i386.
I then could use ASP2 32 correctly with all my plugins working but, at next boot, the system hung on a "broken pipe : could not write bytes".
I did many searches but didn't find anything relevant to my case. None of the solutions did work for me, and the only one was to reinstall from scratch.
I am not a linux expert, my knowledge is very limited and I don't know how to "ghost" an installation, nor if it could be possible to easily build an install
key from a working system. It will come when I get some more time, but atm my only goal is to get a working config with useable ASP2 - btw, I wonder
whether I won't revert to v 1.2, seeing that v 2 seems not to add anything new - so as to process the many pictures I recently took and that are waiting
on my disk.
That said, I'd like to know if other people did meet this problem and if/how they could fix it.
My config : Laptop Dell E4300 / 4 GB / 1 TB / 12.04 LTS 64

J.-Luc

[afx]

I have AS2 32bit and 64bit installed on my Ubuntu systems. With the beta on 12.04 just before I switched to 14.04. No issues whatsoever regarding the system.
What you report sounds like something else in your package management went haywire. None of the 32bit compat libraries that AS needs are relevant at all for the boot image. I guess while trying to et the required compatibility libs you also installed something else that lead to this issue...

cheers
afx

[FalCT60]

I thought so too, so at last I installed the lib straight after the distro, rebooted and... "broken pipe : could not write bytes".
I also tried to read the messages while the libs were installed, and could notice it deals with many stuff, amongst which display and others that I couldn't read - well, that runs too fast for my poor brain -.
So I am almost sure it overrides some (part of) driver that the system needs and so it crashes.
Just a thing I realize I omitted to mention : the crash occurs just before the login screen.

Regards,

J.-Luc

[afx]

What video driver are you using?

cheers
afx

[manu-p]

Hi, did you take a look at this ?

[FalCT60]

@ afx : I'm not a linux expert, but I did a search and found how to list the devices (and hopefully the drivers they use).
It's a bit long, but if you allow me I'll post it there later.
@ manu-p : I found it once, but didn't really pay attention to it until you pointed me to it. I'll read it carefully when I got some more time.

Thanks both for helping.

J.-Luc

[afx]

Run "lspci | egrep -i vga" to see which video card you use.

The next question is then, do you use whatever Ubuntu installed or a vendor driver.
From what you write, I assume you use whatever comes with Ubuntu. Which is ok for Intel, but for AMD and Nvidia usually the OEM drivers are miles better. Especially on an old LTS release like 12.04.

cheers
afs

[FalCT60]

Hello,
Funny... I would have bet the chip were NVDIA... but the command reports Intel instead :

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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)

This however matches the full report I got typing lspci -vv.
So my problem might not be related to this.
One thing I'd like to know : the plugins don't run on 64 bits because they haven't been compiled for this architecture, meaning that if I get the sources I can do it myself with the appropriate commands (I found it usually is ./configure, make & make install) or because they haven't been developed yet ?
Regards,
J.-Luc

[afx]

Compiling the plugins needs the SDK and specific Qt versions to work. Not something you do on the fly unfortunately. Though it is probably easiest on Linux compared tot he other platforms.

cheers
afx