I gave it a try and added LC_ALL="C" to /etc/environment and did a reboot. That should switch locale.
However, no changes PSPP does not work. Maybe the wrong idea. Regards Matthias Matthias Fäth Im Mediapark 12 50670 Köln t: 0221-2907973 m: 0171-9832175 e: m.fa...@gmx.de Skype: hiaska 2014-10-02 17:58 GMT+02:00 John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > Hi Johannes, > > perhaps you could try switching to the C locale and see if the problem > goes away. > > J' > > On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:47:41PM +0200, Johannes Albert-von der G?nna > wrote: > Hi all, > > I can confirm this issue: same platform (Ubuntu 14.04, amd64), same > PSPP > version (0.8.4 from Adam's PPA), the very same errors - no matter what > .sav file I try to open. > A wild guess: could it be related to the system's locale as I'm using > a > German one, too? > > Regards, > Johannes > > > > Am 02.10.2014 um 01:40 schrieb Adam Zammit: > > Dear Matthias, > > > > I have not encountered that error on my installation with my SAV > files. > > Are you able to provide a SAV file that fails so I can test it here? > > > > Regards, > > Adam Zammit > > > > On 2 October 2014 05:00, Matthias Faeth <m.fa...@gmx.de > > <mailto:m.fa...@gmx.de>> wrote: > > > > Yes Adam is in the loop (see address list) but hasn't answered > yet, > > it is still night in Australia. > > > > I wanted to avoid building it for myself for this is something I > > truely hate in Linux (figuring out all the missing dependencies > is a > > nuisiance). > > > > However, if Adam does not help, I'll build it and report back > on this. > > > > Regards > > Matthias > > > > Matthias F?th > > Im Mediapark 12 > > 50670 K?ln > > t: 0221-2907973 > > m: 0171-9832175 > > e: m.fa...@gmx.de <mailto:m.fa...@gmx.de> > > Skype: hiaska > > > > 2014-10-01 20:49 GMT+02:00 John Darrington > > <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au <mailto: > j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>>: > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:38:16PM +0200, Matthias Faeth > wrote: > > Dear all > > > > I have just installed version 0.8.4 by using > > ppa:adamzammit/pspp on my > > ubuntu 14.04 amd64 machine. > > > > Trying to open an existing original SPSS .sav file > results > > in a crash (yes > > I tried it with several different ones). > > > > When invoking psppire from the command line I can see > the > > following error > > messages > > > > "(psppire:30696): Gdk-CRITICAL **: > IA__gdk_cairo_create: > > assertion > > 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed > > > > (psppire:30696): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_cairo_create: > > assertion > > 'GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed > > Speicherzugriffsfehler" > > > > "Speicherzugriffsfehler" means something like "memory > > access violation" > > > > Anybody an idea why the package is not working for me? > > > > > > it it hard to say, but perhaps this is a problem with that > > package. Have you > > contacted Adam Zammit about it? Do you get the same > problems if > > you build > > from source instead of using Zammit's pacakge? > > > > J' > > > > > > -- > > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 > 27B3 > > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for > public key. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Adam Zammit > > Research and Development Officer > > Australian Consortium for Social and Political Research Inc. > > +61 3 9013 9653 > > http://www.acspri.org.au/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pspp-users mailing list > > Pspp-users@gnu.org > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > > > > -- > Johannes Albert-von der G?nna > Diplom-Psychologe > > Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t M?nchen > Department Psychologie > Lehrstuhl f?r Psychologische Methodenlehre und Diagnostik > Leopoldstr. 13 > 80802 M?nchen > > Tel: +49 89 2180 5872 > Fax: +49 89 2180 5235 > > http://psy.lmu.de/pm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > > > -- > PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 > fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 > See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > >
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