Installing GNUstep using gnustep-web-install-dev seems to produce a broken GNUstep installation

[IOOI-SqAR]

Hi,

after temporarily overcoming #18 , #19 and #20 , gnustep-web-install-dev finished successfully.

However, the resulting installation of GNUstep seems to have issues: in gnustep/apps-gworkspace#37 (comment) @rmottola mentions that my GNUstep installation is likely broken, I was not able to get neither GWorkspace.app nor Gorm.app to work:

After building and installing GWorkspace.app like this:

cd apps-gworkspace/
./configure
make
sudo -E make install

I get a somewhat broken state of the app:

lars@Ubuntu-2404-VirtualBox:~$ GWorkspace 
2024-10-15 03:10:25.675 GWorkspace[2671:2671] File NSData.m: 279. In BOOL readContentsOfFile(NSString *, void **, off_t *, NSZone *) Open ((null)) attempt failed - bad path
2024-10-15 03:10:25.681 GWorkspace[2671:2671] File NSData.m: 279. In BOOL readContentsOfFile(NSString *, void **, off_t *, NSZone *) Open ((null)) attempt failed - bad path
2024-10-15 03:10:25.682 GWorkspace[2671:2671] File NSData.m: 279. In BOOL readContentsOfFile(NSString *, void **, off_t *, NSZone *) Open ((null)) attempt failed - bad path
2024-10-15 03:10:25.966 fswatcher[2763:2763] register client 2
2024-10-15 03:10:26.029 GWorkspace[2671:2671] no icon in cache for key /home/lars/.Trash and no WS icon for /home/lars/.Trash
2024-10-15 03:10:26.029 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Warning: No icon found for /home/lars/.Trash
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
2024-10-15 03:10:26.531 GWorkspace[2671:2671] no image found for HomeDirectory
2024-10-15 03:10:26.541 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Exception occurred while loading model: Tried to add nil value for key 'HomeDirectory' to dictionary
2024-10-15 03:10:26.541 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Failed to load Gorm
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
2024-10-15 03:10:26.811 GWorkspace[2671:2671] no image found for HomeDirectory
2024-10-15 03:10:26.814 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Exception occurred while loading model: Tried to add nil value for key 'HomeDirectory' to dictionary
2024-10-15 03:10:26.814 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Failed to load Gorm
2024-10-15 03:10:26.815 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Preferences: failed to load PrefWindow!
2024-10-15 03:10:27.386 GWorkspace[2671:2671] no image found for HomeDirectory
2024-10-15 03:10:27.389 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Problem posting <GSNotification: 0x5ff17ac7a968> Name: NSApplicationWillFinishLaunchingNotification Object: <NSApplication: 0x5ff17acb0588> Info: (null): <NSException: 0x5ff17cfd3a38> NAME:NSInvalidArgumentException REASON:Tried to add nil value for key 'HomeDirectory' to dictionary INFO:{}
2024-10-15 03:10:28.035 GWorkspace[2671:2671] Unable to obtain lock (null)
2024-10-15 03:13:46.348 GWorkspace[2671:2671] no image found for HomeDirectory

The same goes on for Gorm.app too:

cd apps-gorm/
make
sudo -E make install

trying to run Gorm.app:

lars@Ubuntu-2404-VirtualBox:~/GNUstep-shared/gnustep/apps-gorm$ Gorm 
2024-10-15 10:31:28.243 Gorm[4914:4914] Warning: [NSBundle+bundleForClass:] unable to determine version of library '/usr/GNUstep/System/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-gui.so.0' containing 'NSApplication' for executable '/usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Gorm.app/Gorm'
Calling [NSFormCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSFormCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
Calling [NSButtonCell -state] with incorrect signature.  Method has q16@0:8 (q16@0:8), selector has Q16@0:8
2024-10-15 10:31:36.713 Gorm[4914:4914] ClassInformation.plist missing from resources

I installed GNUstep onto a fresh copy of Ubuntu 24.04 without any bells and whistles, e.g. no special configuration.

If you need more information please let me know.

Kind regards,

Lars

[rmottola]

Do you have any new attempts on this?

[IOOI-SqAR]

GNUstep was installed like this:

go to https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop and download ubuntu-24.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso

Set up the VM in Vbox

Install tools to enable Guest Additions Install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bzip2
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install perl

Run autorun.sh from Guest Additions CD image

needed for running gnustep-web-install-dev from web

sudo apt-get install curl
sudo apt-get install git

needed for github access

cd ~/.ssh
touch id_rsa
vi id_rsa

paste the private github key, save and exit

touch id_rsa.pub
vi id_rsa.pub

paste the public github key, save and exit

chmod 600 ~/.ssh/*

ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa

set root user password. Currently needed for gnustep-web-install-dev

sudo su -c passwd

optional: install ntp to avoid clock skew

sudo apt-get install ntp

NEVER: create shared folder between host and guest (GNUstep-shared)

sudo adduser lars vboxsf
sudo chmod 755 GNUstep-shared
cd ~/GNUstep-shared/

the last action which produced a broken installation of GNUstep, because the VirtualBox shared folder functionality changed the owner to root for all git checked out stuff inside ~/GNUstep-shared/. Basically every file was then owned by root which caused problems when opening bundles.

### Moral of the story: Never check out GNUstep sources to a Virtual Box shared folder because it changes file ownership of every checked out file to root.

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