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
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