OSMO -Dunfell 2.6.2

[sszindian]

When 'CONTACTS' are selected, list of my contacts appears as they should. However when I click on an individual contact, everything (all of OSMO) disappears?

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[BarryK]

Thanks for reporting that. I ran "osmo" from a terminal, created a contact, and got a segmentation fault.

Will have a go at fixing it.

[BarryK]

I found out that this is an ancient problem, affects all the pups:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=115567

So, it seems that libxml2 is causing the crash. It would be nice to trace where the crash occurs, and fix it.

As a quick hack, I could compile in OpenEmbedded with the old libxml2, maybe 2.8.0, and link it statically.

Note, 'wdlkmpx' has applied some patches to the 0.2.10 version of osmo:

https://github.com/wdlkmpx/osmo

...compiled it, still crashes when create a contact. None of the patches address that libxml2 problem.

[wiak]

http://osmo-pim.sourceforge.net/

Don't know if you are using GTK+3 compile, but this latest version which I use on WDL_Arch64 seems to be working fine without that bug you describe.

Osmo 0.4.4
libxml2.so.2.9.10

[BarryK]

@wiak, no, we have to stay with osmo 0.2.10, as explained in below link.

Osmo is fixed:

https://bkhome.org/news/202104/osmo-crash-fixed.html

Well, working for me. Let me know if OK for you.

[BarryK]

It turns out that the crash is caused by libgtkhtml2, a dependency of osmo.

I have appended about this to the blog post. Anticipate there will be an updated libgtkhtml2 in the next Easy release.