wxMaxima @21.02.0: Crashes when opening Preferences

[horsten (Thomas Horsten)]

The application seems to work and it's possible to do work, but when I try to open Preferences it crashes every time.

I have reinstalled wxWidgets as recommended in another open ticket about crashing when starting, but it didn't have any effect. I reinstalled MacPorts fresh only a couple of days ago because of this problem, but it didn't go away.

Crash log attached.

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please add the port maintainer(s) to Cc (port info --maintainers wxMaxima), if any.

[horsten (Thomas Horsten)]

Understood, my first ticket here.

[martinr448]

I can confirm the crash (macOS Big Sur 11.5.1). This seems to be the corresponding wxMaxima issue on GitHub: ​https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima/issues/1558.

[MSoegtropIMC]

I have seen this issue once, but it went away as soon as I started to debug it. Since I am using wxMaxima pretty much daily it is for me a rather hard to reproduce bug.

Is it reproducible for others?

I fear I can't do much about this unless someone shares some information on what makes this bug appear or go away.

[kencu (Ken)]

upstream possible fix:

​https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima/commit/a0aa418dc37cf083157ef30431029fa94118e2f5

[MSoegtropIMC]

Do you know how to build the upstream commit locally with MacPorts? Since I can't reproduce it, I can't test it and upstream also says it is a blind shot.

[MSoegtropIMC]

Some tests with a new version make me assume that this is an issue with incompatible preferences files (written by an older version).

If you are experiencing this, please upload/attach your preferences file /Users/<your_user_name>/Library/Preferences/wxMaxima Preferences. You might want to remove recent document names before uploading.

[martinr448]

Replying to MSoegtropIMC:

Some tests with a new version make me assume that this is an issue with incompatible preferences files (written by an older version).

Even after removing the preferences file, wxMaxima @21.02.0_1 crashes on my Mac (ARM/M2) when trying to open the Preferences.

Unfortunately I do not know how to build the upstream commit locally with MacPorts. But if you can direct me to some instructions (if available online) I would give it a try.

[martinr448]

It seems that this has been fixed. With wxMaxima @24.01.0 the preferences work just fine on my Mac (ARM/M2).

[MSoegtropIMC]

Thank you for the confirmation! Indeed it should be fixed.

Unfortunately even as maintainer I am not allowed to close tickets.

To whom it may concern: please close this ticket!

I would appreciate a pointer to the documentation of this highly non obvious ticket system - I couldn't find anything in the top level of ​https://trac.macports.org/wiki which looks remotely related. E.g. what do I have to do to get the right to close the tickets assigned to me?