Bug 501526

Summary:	Ghostwriter won't start on ubuntu 24.10
Product:	[Applications] ghostwriter	Reporter:	nicolas.taffin
Component:	general	Assignee:	megan.conkle
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	crash	CC:	john.kizer
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.08.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description nicolas.taffin 2025-03-15 10:27:55 UTC

SUMMARY
Ghostwriter does not start anymore on ubuntu 24.10.
Kernel: 6.11.0-19-generic
GNOME 47.0 


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. type ghostwriter in terminal or click the ghostwriter icon
feeback in terminal below


OBSERVED RESULT
Application does not start at all
message in terminal :
QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread
Using pandoc version 3.1.3
Command "multimarkdown" is not available.
Using cmark version 0.30.2
ghostwriter: ./src/blocks.c :283 : finalize:  l'assertion « b->flags & CMARK_NODE__OPEN » a échoué.
Abandon (core dumped)

EXPECTED RESULT
i tried to reinstall both cmark and ghostwriter, also erased the config file. Could not get Ghost writer starting.
I'm a happy user of Ghostwriter and could not understand what happened. Maybe a system update or another installation broke it ?


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
ubuntu 24.10.
Kernel: 6.11.0-19-generic
GNOME 47.0 


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 nicolas.taffin 2025-03-15 11:00:35 UTC

I moved from the apt install to the snap (version 25.03.70) and it seems to start fine with this version. So maybe that's it.

Comment 2 John Kizer 2025-03-27 19:33:24 UTC

Hi - yes, Ghostwriter is now on version 24.12.3, and version 23.08.5 is no longer supported by KDE. Typically, keeping older versions running like that requires some work on packaging and patching by the downstream distribution - Ubuntu/Kubuntu in this case - so there may be some missing dependencies or files in how they are distributing Ghostwriter for the 24.10 release.

Comment 3 nicolas.taffin 2025-03-27 22:17:44 UTC

yup, weird that apt package is that old ! did not pay attention first. Now it seems more stable with 24.12.03 (i face new bug though on export now, "weasyprint missing" message on error even with a pandoc or wkhtml2pdf export - and i have weasyprint installed, but that is not the place here, i may file a new bug for that).