Programs crashing - help!

[jnorris235]

On my laptop which happily runs Edgy - suddenly GRAMPS (a genealogy program) just closes whenever I click on anything within it.

On my desktop (Edgy), whenever I open Bluefish (web editing) and press Save - it just closes.

I'm wondering if this is not program specific and whether there is any simple testing (command line) to be done to find the problem?

Can't be doing with instability!!

[jnorris235]

Re: Programs crashing - help!

When I load GRAMPS from Konsole (just type GRAMPS) I get this, in Konsole - and then the program opens. Immediately I try to do anything with the program, it closes:

jon@chi:~$ gramps
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
Major opcode: 145
Minor opcode: 3
Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
/bin/sh: /usr/bin/esd: not found

[Earthwings]

Re: Programs crashing - help!

See here how to fix the "BadDevice" messages.

The last line indicates that the program depends on esd (sound daemon). Do things change when you install it? An strace $program might give further hints on what's causing the problem (you probably have to install strace before).