PixInsight not starting up

[Eli]

Hi,

I downloaded PixInsight before the current version and worked with it for about two weeks. Since updating to the current (today) version I have not been able to start the software. The startup error in the command line is

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Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-lookup.c: 232: _dl_lookup_symbol_x: Assertion 'version == ((void *)0) || (flags & ~(DL_LOOKUP_ADD_DEPENDENCY)) == 0' failed!


Nothing on my Linux system has changed other than updating PixInsight. I'm running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbons. Any ideas on the issue?

Thanks,

Eli

[Carlos Milovic]

Hi Eli

I have the same setup, and got the same problems with the 375 release. We think that it is a problem with the libraries that PixInsight is using in the new release, instead of the system's ones (to "avoid" compatibility issues...).

Well, to run PixInsight you'll have to edit the .sh file:

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#!/bin/bash
appname=`basename $0 | sed s,\.sh$,,`
dirname=`dirname $0`
if [ "${dirname:0:1}" != "/" ]; then
dirname=$PWD/$dirname
fi
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$dirname
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
$dirname/$appname-bin $*



This change avoids using those new libraries, and calls the binary file bypassing the launcher. If you don't call the binary, but the launcher, it may work too (don't add "-bin" at the end of the last sentence).

Now, run the .sh, and it should work

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Eli,

Carlos has shown you the way to fix this problem. However I recommend you to run PixInsight through the launcher program, so the last line of the script should be:

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$dirname/$appname $*

I'm going to see what happens with shared libraries in the last version; I'll let you know -and publish a fixed version of course.

Thank you for your patience.

[Eli]

Thank you both for the replies and suggestions. I ended up trying Juan's suggestion first, but no progress was made. I then tried Carlos's suggestion in running the edited .sh file, which worked.

Looking forward to the fixed version.  :wink:

Cheers,

Eli