Re: FLEx problem - Need more information

[Kent Rasmussen]

On 01/13/2017 10:58 AM, Mark Strobert wrote:

Kent, its sounds like you are having trouble running Flex on your Ubuntu 14.04 system. Sorry about that!

thanks.

Most of the warnings that get printed by 'fieldworks-flex' are red-herrings.

OK, so I don't need '/usr/lib/fieldworks/DistFiles' or '/usr/lib/fieldworks/Output_x86_64/Debug' ?

But I didn't expect "[ERROR] FATAL UNHANDLED EXCEPTION: System.ArgumentException: A null reference or invalid value was found [GDI+".
That makes me wonder if maybe the libgdiplus-sil package didn't get installed.

libgdiplus-sil is already the newest version.

1. Run FieldWorks Language Explorer from the launcher in the Dash (or similar GUI way to launch applications), rather than from commandline. See if that works. (Very silly, but let's determine if it is any different).

Nope. That's why I ran it from the command line.

2. What gets printed by this command: (the |cat on the end makes dpkg -l not truncate some of its fields)

    dpkg -l fieldworks fieldworks-applications mono-sil libgdiplus-sil mono-basic-sil gtk-sharp2-sil geckofx29 | cat

$ dpkg -l fieldworks fieldworks-applications mono-sil libgdiplus-sil mono-basic-sil gtk-sharp2-sil geckofx29 | cat
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                                        Version                                             Architecture Description
+++-===========================================================-===================================================-============-====================================================================================
ii  fieldworks                                                  8.2.9.76+trusty1                                    all          A suite of programs to manage language and cultural data
ii  fieldworks-applications                                     8.2.9.76+trusty1                                    amd64        A suite of programs to manage language and cultural data - applications
ii  geckofx29                                                   29.0.0.22+trusty1                                   amd64        C# binding for gecko web browser controls
ii  gtk-sharp2-sil                                              2.12.10-2+trusty1                                   amd64        A version of GTK# 2 specially for SIL programs
ii  libgdiplus-sil                                              3.4.0-2+trusty1                                     amd64        A version of libgdiplus specially for SIL programs
ii  mono-basic-sil                                              2.10-4+trusty1                                      all          A version of mono-basic specially for SIL programs
ii  mono-sil                                                    3.4.0-16+trusty1                                    amd64        A version of mono specially for SIL programs

I want to figure out what is going wrong with flex on your machine, and trying the above will be a good first step in diagnosing.

Great.

Sorry flex is giving you trouble! I hope we can get it straightened out for you and for others who may experience the same thing unless we get this fixed.

thanks. I'll be around much of the afternoon, for whenever you have/need more.

Grace,

Kent

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Kent Rasmussen
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