Problems running MuseScore 2.0 on Fedora 23

• Jul 30, 2015 - 21:31

I've just upgraded my Linux installation to Fedora 23. I then installed the current version of MuseScore from the Fedora 23 repository, using the YumEx tool as directed on the musescore.org downloads page. This is version 2.0.1 (2.0.2 is not yet available for Fedora).

Anyway, whenever I try to start MuseScore, either from the program icon or by opening a MuseScore file, I get a flurry of activity indicating Fedora is trying to load the program and then nothing. It fails to run at all.

Has anyone managed to get MuseScore to work with Fedora 23? if so, how?


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If you run it from the command line, any interesting console output? Maybe try using the "-F" option to revert to factory settings, or try "-w", or "-s", or other options that seem possibly relevant as documented in the Handbook under "Command line options".

In reply to by Marc Sabatella

Nothing with most options but debug mode spits out some information and then crashes out sending a report automatically (probably somewhere in the system now).

This is what I get:

# mscore -d

QIODevice::read (QFile, "/usr/share/fonts/bravura/glyphnames.json"): device not open
QIODevice::read (QFile, "/usr/share/fonts/bravura/metadata.json"): device not open
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm guessing there's a problem with musefonts access that prevents further loading of the program.

In reply to by Ayesongs

OK - I set up some symbolic links to the missing font directories (they were in a subdirectory for musescore) and cured the font file problem. However musescore still crashes out with just the segmentation fault to report. Any ideas, folks?

I just tried MuseScore in Fedora 23 Beta, running in a VirtualBox on Windows 7. I installed MuseScore from the Fedora repo. If I try to start mscore (from the commandline) it crashes with a segfault and doesn't start. I will do more testing after Fedora 23 is released (november) and I will do a real Fedora 23 install on my Linux computer. I want to try if it makes any difference if I compile from sources myself. Anyway, it seems the Fedora packager(s) and/or the MuseScore developers have still some work to do for MuseScore 2.x +Fedora 23.

BTW: I am using MuseScore on Fedora 22 with Qt 5.5. And it doesn't crash like this.

I tried the official Fedora 23 package for Musescore on a virtual machine (segfault, crash)

I also tried to compile from GIT development sources myself on another Fedora 23 system: It works nicely.

So it looks to me something is wrong with the Fedora 23 RPM build and/or packaging.

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