Bug 82288 – scilab-3.0 has no toolbar and gives out malloc error messages on startup

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Hsia 2005-02-16 14:57:37 UTC]

scilab-3.0 starts up but either immediately exits or comes up showing the following error messages in its console

                  Copyright (c) 1989-2004          
              Consortium Scilab (INRIA, ENPC)      
        -------------------------------------------
shade : malloc No more Place
shade : malloc No more Place
	if with_tk() then
              !--error     4 
undefined variable : with_tk                 
at line      11 of exec file called by :    
exec('SCI/scilab.quit',-1);quit;

Secondly, the toolbar/menu under the window titlebar is blank. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="atlas gtk gtk2 tcltk" emerge scilab
2. Run scilab
3.
Actual Results:  
Immediate exit or console with above aberrant behavior

Expected Results:  
Run as normal. 

If I instead do a USE="-gtk atlas gtk2 tcltk" emerge scilab, I get a scilab that
runs fine but uses an older (tcltk?) widget set rather than the gtk2 widget set.

Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3-20050110,
glibc-2.3.4.20050125-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2000+
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 14 2005, 16:33:22)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-mp -O3 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex 3dnowext X aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa atlas avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bmp bzip2 bzlib c++ cdda cddb cdf cdio
cdparanoia cdr cdrom chroot cmucl crypt cups curl curlwrappers divx4linux dnd
dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd evms2 f2c f77 faad fam ffmpeg fftw flac
foomaticdb fortran freetype gd gdbm gif ginac glitz gnome gnuplot gphoto2 gpm
graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal hbci hdf hdf5 howl imagemagick imlib
imlib2 ipv6 java jikes jpeg junit kde kerberos krb4 lapack latex ldap libg++
libwww lm_sensors mad matroska mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mng motif mozilla
mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mpi mplayer mysql ncurses netcdf nls nptl nvidia ogg
oggvorbis openal opengl pam parse-clocks pcre pdf pdflib perl pic pie plotutils
png pnp ppds pthreads python qhull qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sdl
shared sharedmem smime spell sqlite sse ssl stream svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex
theora threads tiff truetype usb v4l v4l2 vcd vidix vlm vorbis winbind xine
xinerama xml xml2 xosd xpm xprint xrandr xv xvid xvmc zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-03-02 09:25:04 UTC]

Can you try with scilab-3.0-r1?

[Comment 2 Alexander Hsia 2005-03-05 11:36:47 UTC]

I tried out scilab-3.0-r1 and still get this problem on both my athlon-mp at work and my pentium-m laptop at home. No toolbar icons, and the shade malloc errors in the scilab window on startup. 

[Comment 3 Gustavo Ribeiro Alves 2005-04-27 22:08:19 UTC]

I can confirm this bug.

[Comment 4 Olivier Fisette (RETIRED) 2005-06-20 17:47:09 UTC]

I could not reproduce. (I always get tcl/tk widgets even if I compile with 
"gtk" and "gtk2" USE flags...) Could you try version 3.1.1 (in Portage) and 
tell us how it behaves for you? 

[Comment 5 Pedro Sousa 2006-02-10 08:40:12 UTC]

This continues in the last scilab package scilab-3.1.1-r3. 

The only USE flag that I set was the gtk.

[Comment 6 Pedro Sousa 2006-02-10 10:08:37 UTC]

According to Scilab's site, GTK+ is not officially supported. Recompiling it with 

sci-mathematics/scilab Xaw3d -gtk +tcltk

in /etc/portage/package.use solved the problem. 

[Comment 7 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) 2006-06-21 08:15:50 UTC]

Please reopen if this remains an issue with scilab-4.