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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 305

Blender and the file dialog

Whenever trying to open or save a file with Blender, the program segfaults with the following callstack:

#0  0x081bce34 in drawfilespace ()
#1  0x08268b15 in scrarea_do_windraw ()
#2  0x081a7b46 in screenmain ()
#3  0x0816a107 in main ()

Is this problem seen on all archlinux computers, or only on mine? Is it the fault of the package? How can this problem be resolved?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Blender and the file dialog

It's happening here too. I'll do a quick rebuild and see if it solves anything.

skottish

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Re: Blender and the file dialog

Nope. Rebuilding does not help. Considering all of the problems people are having with xorg-server right now, I'm not too surprised. Although, I'm on x86_64 and haven't seen the problems others are having.

skottish

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Re: Blender and the file dialog

The solution is stupid. You need the .blender folder out of the official package in your home directory. Download the official build, extract the tarball, and copy that folder into your home directory.

aardwolf

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Registered: 2005-07-23

Posts: 305

Re: Blender and the file dialog

Oh, so it's just missing something in the Arch package?

skottish

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Re: Blender and the file dialog

There's a pretty good explanation of what's happening here. Apparently it's a very persistent problem.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8039

kiepmad

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 41

Re: Blender and the file dialog

mh, strange.

It's still not working for me.

I downloaded the offical release, unpacked it, and renamed the folder to .blender.
I also copied /usr/share/blender/scripts to  /home/kiepmad/.blender/scripts

[kiepmad@LUC ~]$ blender -d
Blender 2.45 (sub 0) Build
argv[0] = blender
argv[1] = -d
Compiled with Python version 2.5.1.
Checking for installed Python... got it!
Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 4
read file 
  Version 242 sub 4
read file /home/kiepmad/.B.blend
  Version 245 sub 0

ordered
 OBCube
 OBLamp
 OBCamera
File .Blanguages not found
could not change language to en_US nor en_US.UTF-8

Registering scripts in Blender menus ...

Getting menu data for scripts from file:
/home/kiepmad/.blender/Bpymenus

Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 4
Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 4
Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 4
Color depth r 8 g 8 b 8
Aux buffers: 4
Segmentation fault

Edit:

built it with abs and copied the /usr/share/blender folder to /home/kiepmad/.blender and it's working now.

Last edited by kiepmad (2008-02-08 22:39:18)

skottish

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Re: Blender and the file dialog

This is the contents of ~/.blender on my machine:

[skottish@iasE .blender]$ ls -al
total 112
drwxr-xr-x  4 skottish skottish  4096 2008-01-20 11:26 .
drwx------ 61 skottish skottish 12288 2008-02-08 16:15 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 skottish skottish   302 2007-07-23 08:55 .Blanguages
-rw-r--r--  1 skottish skottish 65932 2007-07-23 08:55 .bfont.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 skottish skottish 10733 2008-01-20 11:26 Bpymenus
drwxr-xr-x 24 skottish skottish  4096 2007-09-12 08:53 locale
drwxr-xr-x  4 skottish skottish  4096 2007-09-12 08:53 scripts

You have an error about .Blanguages missing. Do you have all of this?