Lazarus does not start on Archlinux 64.

[joseywales72]

Hi,
I downloaded and extracted both 0.9.30 and 0.9.30.2RC sources. I have FPC 2.4.4 installed (both binary and sources)
I issue a make clean all, compilation finishes successfully. But when I try to start lazarus, I get these.

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(lazarus:15521): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred
  Sender=EInvalidOp
  Exception=Invalid floating point operation
  Stack trace:
  $00007FDC9A24F684
TApplication.HandleException Invalid floating point operation
  Stack trace:
  $00007FDC9A24F684
[FORMS.PP] ExceptionOccurred

I am on Archlinux 64, FPC compiles programs successfully and I can run them. (I only tried simple command line examples though)
What can be wrong?
Thanks.

[Blaazen]

I had similar problems. Try:

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make distclean

EDIT: This error is after ./lazarus or ./startlazarus ?

[joseywales72]

Thank you Blaazen, I tried your solution but no joy. The same error appears after I run both lazarus and startlazarus.
I'll try the compiled snapshots tonight. But I'm beginning to suspect my computer configuration. I use Archlinux 64 on both my machines (A laptop with Turion64 x2 and a desktop with Athlon II X4) Only the laptop has this error. I compiled both 0.9.30 and 0.9.30rc2 on my desktop, they ran fine.

[Blaazen]

I have 64-bit Chakra Linux (based on arch + KDE4) on laptop and I use SVN for both fpc and Lazarus. I had that message firstly only for ./startlazarus and later for both ./lazarus and ./startlazarus and "make distclean" did the job. Do you have GTK2 ?

[fabienwang]

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/lazarus/

packages on Arch community repo....

You can just do
sudo pacman -S lazarus

why do you need to compile yourself?

[joseywales72]

@Blaazen: I tried make distclean, but the result is the same.
@FabienWang: I knew about the package, but since pacman installs it in /usr/bin and /usr/lib, it takes root priviliges to install components which I don't like. Anyway, I had already tried to install before I posted and the error messages were the same. It seems there is something missing.

[zeljko]

If you're using gtk2-2.24-7 then downgrade to 2.24-6 and it'll work.