#302 chessx failing to open in linux

[Davies Njuguna]

for the past 1 month my chessx has failed to open, i'm using linux i have installed on both using terminal and here, any help would be appreciated.

[IAHM-COL]

Hi @xyndrirth,

I use chessx in linux, and this does not seem to be a problem for me.

I can try to help; but I'd need some more information to begin to understand the problem.

So far I think it could be related to missing dependencies at runtime; try identifying where the program is in your computer, ie

which chessx

If it says something like there is not chessx, then it is possibly not correctly installed, let us know.

Let's say it responds /usr/bin/chessx (this is very common, but not the only possible answer)

Then knowing the path as per the answer of the command, try

ldd /usr/bin/chessx

Changing /usr/bin/chessx for the correct reply of the which command

Then if the ldd output tells that something is not found then you have missing dependencies that are needed at runtime to use the software, and those must be installed.

A good way to list anything needed, so you can post here is

ldd /usr/bin/chessx | grep not

[Stanislaus John Wojnowski]

Thank you, sirs. I downloaded the latest version and oila it worked. Thank you.

[Stanislaus John Wojnowski]

version 1.5.6

[Stanislaus John Wojnowski]

I ran lupdate chessx.pro, then qmake, then make. Then I tried to run chess x by typing ./chessx in the release directory. These are the errors I rcvd:
(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:55:09.890: cannot register existing type 'GdkDisplayManager'

(chessx:1590): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.890: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.890: g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:55:09.890: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.890: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:55:09.890: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.890: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 08:55:09.897: cannot register existing type 'GdkDisplay'

(chessx:1590): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.897: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.897: g_type_register_static: assertion 'parent_type > 0' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.897: g_once_init_leave: assertion 'result != 0' failed

(chessx:1590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:55:09.897: g_object_new_with_properties: assertion 'G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Segmentation fault

I have no idea what this means.

Please assist.

[Stanislaus John Wojnowski]

I have commented out sound and speech in chessx.pro.

[Stanislaus John Wojnowski]

When I do the same procedure on another computer using Debian Linux on wsl 2 I get this error when trying to compile:
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:1054: release/chessx] Error 1

[Luigi Baldoni]

Disregard this, see #305.