Crashing on Linux - a suggestion

[DaveK]

When I was trying out AfterShot Pro 2 (64-bit), I couldn't even launch the program without a crash. I'm running Kubuntu, which isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.

This change is at your own risk. The fix was to remove the line "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" from the script that launches AfterShot Pro 2. The script is /usr/bin/AfterShot2X64, the offending line is line 24. You can either remove the line or comment it out by putting a # in front of it. You'll have to edit it as root since it's a system file.

I'm not exactly sure what this environment variable does, why it's being set, or why it causes crashes on my system. My googling has only told me that it's something low-level with X11 programming, which isn't helpful. Honestly, I have no idea why this works. It may be resolving an issue that doesn't happen on Kubuntu.

Now that I've done this, ASP2 doesn't crash (as much) for me. I also tried some of the things that other users have reported (drag and drop) and they appear to work fine, though I haven't tested extensively.

[dFlyer]

When I was trying out AfterShot Pro 2 (64-bit), I couldn't even launch the program without a crash. I'm running Kubuntu, which isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.

This change is at your own risk. The fix was to remove the line "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" from the script that launches AfterShot Pro 2. The script is /usr/bin/AfterShot2X64, the offending line is line 24. You can either remove the line or comment it out by putting a # in front of it. You'll have to edit it as root since it's a system file.

I'm not exactly sure what this environment variable does, why it's being set, or why it causes crashes on my system. My googling has only told me that it's something low-level with X11 programming, which isn't helpful. Honestly, I have no idea why this works. It may be resolving an issue that doesn't happen on Kubuntu.

Now that I've done this, ASP2 doesn't crash (as much) for me. I also tried some of the things that other users have reported (drag and drop) and they appear to work fine, though I haven't tested extensively.

Just tried this fix on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and it seems to work well. Not sure what the above line does but committing it out allows drag and drop without a crash/lock up of Unity.

Thank you.

Gary

[elguavas]

thanks a bunch mate. was having the exact same segfault on startup in kubuntu 15.04 with this new aftershot version. applied the fix you detailed to the startup script and now all works fine.

appreciate your sharing the discovery you made.

[hannes_hab]

yes this helps - had a problem with drag and drop of keywords in the keyword manager ... commenting out this line helped.
thank you very much!

[Hobgoblin]

When I was trying out AfterShot Pro 2 (64-bit), I couldn't even launch the program without a crash. I'm running Kubuntu, which isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.

This change is at your own risk. The fix was to remove the line "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" from the script that launches AfterShot Pro 2. The script is /usr/bin/AfterShot2X64, the offending line is line 24. You can either remove the line or comment it out by putting a # in front of it. You'll have to edit it as root since it's a system file.

I'm not exactly sure what this environment variable does, why it's being set, or why it causes crashes on my system. My googling has only told me that it's something low-level with X11 programming, which isn't helpful. Honestly, I have no idea why this works. It may be resolving an issue that doesn't happen on Kubuntu.

Now that I've done this, ASP2 doesn't crash (as much) for me. I also tried some of the things that other users have reported (drag and drop) and they appear to work fine, though I haven't tested extensively.

Very many thanks.
This seems to resolve the issue with crashes when 'dragging' an image to a output batch as well.
(Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon)
Development team please take note!
R.

[rsy]

When I was trying out AfterShot Pro 2 (64-bit), I couldn't even launch the program without a crash. I'm running Kubuntu, which isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.

This change is at your own risk. The fix was to remove the line "XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1" from the script that launches AfterShot Pro 2. The script is /usr/bin/AfterShot2X64, the offending line is line 24. You can either remove the line or comment it out by putting a # in front of it. You'll have to edit it as root since it's a system file.

I'm not exactly sure what this environment variable does, why it's being set, or why it causes crashes on my system. My googling has only told me that it's something low-level with X11 programming, which isn't helpful. Honestly, I have no idea why this works. It may be resolving an issue that doesn't happen on Kubuntu.

Now that I've done this, ASP2 doesn't crash (as much) for me. I also tried some of the things that other users have reported (drag and drop) and they appear to work fine, though I haven't tested extensively.

Works for me on Fedora 22 64Bit
Thanks
Reinhard

[Tommy_CZ]

When I was trying out AfterShot Pro 2 (64-bit), I couldn't even launch the program without a crash. I'm running Kubuntu, which isn't officially supported, but I'm hoping this might help someone else.
...

Kubuntu is only one-word name for Ubuntu with KDE environment (QT), so it actually IS supported (because Ubuntu is or SHOULD be supported).

[macr237]

This fix also fixes the Manage Metadata drag and drop issue in Keyword Manager.

[mg519903]

This action also fixes the crash on "keywords manager" drag on my Open SUSE 13.2 (64b).

Thanks a lot for the post.

[vlx]

Removing XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 fixed the problem with AfterShot Pro 2.4 on my Linux Mint 17.1.