No gui on ubuntu natty. #147

Not sure where problems is, but i've tried precompiled version from sf and tried to build bitcoin by myself. Both not works. It's starts, but no gui. According to strace it's cycled on one action

<pre> brk(0x8ef7000) = 0x8ef7000 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\326%\0\0\1\f\0\0\370\4\0\0\32\0\334\6\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 39673856) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\370\4\0\0\326%\0\0\214\27\0\0&\0\244\2\1\5\320\17L\17\220\4"..., 4096, 5210112) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\214\27\0\0\370\4\0\0:=\0\0\32\0\334\6\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 24690688) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0:=\0\0\214\27\0\0\215\t\0\0\30\0\220\7\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 64200704) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\215\t\0\0:=\0\0\355\17\0\0\"\0\f\4\1\5\254\6(\6\320\17"..., 4096, 10014720) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\355\17\0\0\215\t\0\0?=\0\0\34\0(\6\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 16699392) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0?=\0\0\355\17\0\0f\30\0\0\26\0D\10\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 64221184) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0f\30\0\0?=\0\0{\1\0\0&\0\244\2\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 25583616) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0{\1\0\0f\30\0\0\225\35\0\0,\0\210\0\1\5\320\17L\17\254\6"..., 4096, 1552384) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\225\35\0\0{\1\0\0B\17\0\0\"\0\f\4\1\5\320\17L\17\24\10"..., 4096, 31019008) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0B\17\0\0\225\35\0\0\263&\0\0\36\0t\5\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 15998976) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\263&\0\0B\17\0\0\315\5\0\0\34\0(\6\1\5\320\17L\17\24\10"..., 4096, 40579072) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\315\5\0\0\263&\0\0\31%\0\0\34\0(\6\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 6082560) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\31%\0\0\315\5\0\0\262\f\0\0\"\0\f\4\1\5`\7\334\6\320\17"..., 4096, 38899712) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\262\f\0\0\31%\0\0\365!\0\0 \0\300\4\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 13312000) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\365!\0\0\262\f\0\0\271\0\0\0\26\0D\10\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 35606528) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\271\0\0\0\365!\0\0\275\21\0\0*\0<\1\1\5\320\17L\17\34\17"..., 4096, 757760) = 4096 pread64(12, "\0\0\0\0\1\0\0\0\275\21\0\0\271\0\0\0] \0\0&\0\244\2\1\5D\5\300\4\24\10"..., 4096, 18599936) = 4096 brk(0x8f18000) </pre>

just digits not same.

I can confirm it. No gui either using the sf.net version on the one compiled from latest github sources.

I did some more investigations on the issue not showing up and..

a) xlsclients list bitcoin as an X client. Good so far b) xwiininfo ${windowId} gives

xwininfo: Window id: 0x4600001 "bitcoin"

  Root window id: 0xb4 (the root window) (has no name)
  Parent window id: 0xb4 (the root window) (has no name)
    1 child:
    0x4600002 (has no name): ()  1x1+-1+-1  +9+9

   Absolute upper-left X:  10
   Absolute upper-left Y:  10
   Relative upper-left X:  10
   Relative upper-left Y:  
   Width: 10
   Height: 10
   Depth: 24
   Visual: 0x23
   Visual Class: TrueColor
   Border width: 0
   Class: InputOutput
   Colormap: 0x20 (installed)
   Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
   Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity
   Backing Store State: NotUseful
   Save Under State: no
   Map State: IsUnMapped
   Override Redirect State: no
   Corners:  +10+10  -1900+10  -1900-1060  +10-1060
   -geometry 10x10+10+10

The geometry does not look exactly right here (width=height=10px??) but the worst (real reason) is the is that the window is unmapped.

c) wmctrl -l does not list bitcoin as window managed by WM. Can be a (WM) compiz bug, of course.

Some more details. Bitcoin on Ubuntu Natty works with metacity (wm) but not with compiz.

I've filled a bug against compiz and if it is confirmed (as a compiz bug) this issue could be closed.

I think this is a bug in bitcoin certainly related to this bug report I made earlier: #128

I can confirm this too. Seems like a bug in natty

I can confirm this too. No GUI in Natty (Unity).

I do not have GUI in natty too

After reading the comments on #128 I rebuilt bitcoin 0.3.21 against wx-Widgets trunk and was able to see the GUI again in Ubuntu Natty.

Could someone then package a version built against wxWidgets trunk?

I just got the gui working with the *22-RC. Close maybe?

Starting with 0.3.22 RC2, Bitcoin is built with wxWidgets 2.9.1+r67496. The patches can be found at https://github.com/TheBlueMatt/bitcoin/commit/a44f3475cdcec8581c87f8264b846955467a582e This should be closed.