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["Reece R. Pollack" <reece@xxxxxxx>]

Hey folks, I've run into an odd problem that I could use some help fixing.

I needed to help test Orson's possible fixes to a critical bug, which we 
were expecting to result in a Git bisect. I cloned my usual development 
repo into a new tree and checked out the "master" branch to avoid any 
possibility of my local changes affecting the tests. In hopes of 
avoiding messing up my normal installation in /usr/local, when I built 
this new tree I specified an installation directory with the 
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> option to Cmake. Since it wasn't 
installing in a system directory I didn't use "sudo" during the 
installation of this test version.

I discovered that when starting KiCad from the KDE menu I found it ran 
the test version rather than the version in /usr/local. That was a 
surprise, but not a disaster. Once the testing was over I wanted to go 
back to my regular version installed in /usr/local, so in the test build 
directory I ran "make uninstall". Yet starting KiCad from the KDE menu 
resulted in a project manager that reported the test build version, not 
my locally-modified build version.

Somewhat confused as to what executable was running, I deleted the 
entire test repo. I then went to my local build repo and re-ran "sudo 
make install" which completed successfully. I then started getting the 
expected version from the project manager window and from eeschema. 
However, pcbnew fails with this error:

    *** Error importing the wxPython API! ***

I haven't changed my system configuration recently, so I ran "sudo make 
uninstall", cleaned the build and recompiled everything from scratch, 
and ran "sudo make install". Again the install ran without errors, but I 
still can't run pcbnew. Here's the output from running pcbnew from a 
terminal window:

$ pcbnew
23:05:31: Debug: Checking template path 
'/usr/local/share/kicad/template' exists
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PNG file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'JPEG file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'TIFF file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'GIF file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PNM file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'PCX file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'IFF file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows icon file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows cursor file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'Windows animated 
cursor file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'TGA file'
23:05:31: Debug: Adding duplicate image handler for 'XPM file'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/__init__.py", 
line 49, in <module>
    from wx._core import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_core.py", line 
16923, in <module>
    from _gdi import *
ValueError: bad marshal data (unknown type code)
23:06:08: Error: pcbnewInitPythonScripting() failed.
Segmentation fault


Have I done something dumb? Is this worth filing a bug report?

-Reece