Adobe Air on Linux
2009 July 20 at 12:31 » Tagged as :lame, air, ria, twitter,
A struggled for a while to get Adobe Air installed on my fedora 11 box, so that I may run TweetDeck. Finally I did get it running and was happily using TweetDeck for a short while. Well it was only minutes. Then they released a TweetDeck update. After the update was installed TweetDeck wouldn't start up again. At the time I was busy with other things so I forgot about it for a while. In the meantime, I installed Aptana along with the Adobe Air plugin.
I am switching to Adobe Air because JavaFX as a failed technology. Air impressed at first look. It felt as though I could take to Air like a duck taking to water - that's the way it should have been with JavaF(ailed)X but it wasn't. After playing with Air/Aptana for a while, I put it on the back burner and returned to it today. Now my first weak attempt at creating an air application seems to have fallen into a black hole. Soon as you hit the run button, Aptana blinks but nothing happens. The application doesn't run and there is nothing in the console. Other than the rather unhelpfull message that the application has terminated. After hitting the run button another half a dozen times, I decided to run it manually using ADL. Lo and Behold there is a more informative message:
Right at the bottom is the business end of the crashlog. There it has this bit of information:
Again this is nothing that I could make use of. So I tried running the application from the command line using adl only to run into the same error. Next up I tried running it as root and it worked! Now this app is nothing more than a simple hello world. It worked perfectly the last time I ran it but today it will not run. Same goes with TweetDeck, one time it was working fine but now it also causes a core dump. Of course the culprit here is the Air runtime rather than TweetDeck or Aptana or even my own hello world. Wish they would fix it soon or at least provide a less verbose but more usefull error message so that I can figure it out.
Application crashed with an unhandled SIGSEGV Crashlog has been dumped in /tmp/airCrashLogs/0720_1545_U87bom It was then that I looked into the /tmp/airCrashlogs folder and found it full of them. While the log is human readable, there wasn't anything in it that this human could understand. At the top there is a list of libraries that have been loaded as long as your arm:
00110000-0013e000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 161955 /lib/libssl3.so 0013e000-00140000 rw-p 0002d000 08:02 161955 /lib/libssl3.so 00140000-00142000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 108463 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libpk-gtk-module.so 00142000-00143000 rw-p 00001000 08:02 108463 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libpk-gtk-module.so 00143000-00220000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 14617 /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.3 00220000-00221000 rw-p 000dd000 08:02 14617 /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.3 00223000-00226000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 5004 /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2000.3 00226000-00227000 rw-p 00002000 08:02 5004 /lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.2000.3 00229000-0022d000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 161964 /lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2000.3 0022d000-0022e000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 161964 /lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0.2000.3 0022e000-00232000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 103228 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so 00232000-00233000 rw-p 00003000 08:02 103228 /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so 00233000-002c2000 r-xp 00000000 08:02 102488 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20 002c2000-002c6000 rw-p 0008e000 08:02 102488 /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.20
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