QT wallet on Ubuntu is so buggy it is unusable

[Thom]

Seems like the restart of system was required... Now it seems QT client is working, so I may confirm United Kindom in is required setting in Locale>Country in Kubuntu 14.04.

BTW, seems like newest client does not have access to Bitshares console like it used to?

The console is found under the account / advanced menu now.

[btcxyzzz]

No... It's not starting again (don't know how it started that one time after reset). Even deleting config.json file does not help like it used to

[btcxyzzz]

Tried United Kingdom setting - doesn't work. Really don't know what to try next...

Try to describe your problem first. ;)
How it behaves?
Which version you are using?
Does it start correctly at least?

Seems like the restart of system was required... Now it seems QT client is working, so I may confirm United Kindom in is required setting in Locale>Country in Kubuntu 14.04.

BTW, seems like newest client does not have access to Bitshares console like it used to?

[maqifrnswa]

FYI, ubuntu fixed the bug that put the bitshares app icon in the top left of the screen. It won't be fixed until the next release (april), however:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/sni-qt/+bug/1209106

[gabes]

Tried United Kingdom setting - doesn't work. Really don't know what to try next...

Try to describe your problem first. ;)
How it behaves?
Which version you are using?
Does it start correctly at least?

[btcxyzzz]

Tried United Kingdom setting - doesn't work. Really don't know what to try next...

[gabes]

Using Kubuntu 14.04, my Country: setting is "System Country (United States Of America)", I guess this needs to be changed, but to what?

If you do not encounter any problems you should be fine with your settings. Also Kubuntu has QT based frontend (KDE). I think QT based apps could be integrated better compared to Ubuntu.

[btcxyzzz]

Using Kubuntu 14.04, my Country: setting is "System Country (United States Of America)", I guess this needs to be changed, but to what?

[gabes]

I just tested the newest 0.6.1 client on Ubuntu. It still doesn't work correctly on a non-english systems.
Quick workaround is to switch regional settings to english, but it is rather unconvenient and causes input problems in other localized applications.
I was told by vikram there is no technical support for QT related bugs on linux. Anyway I leave here this bug report if someone from the community willing to inspect this.

Bitshares on Ubuntu

regional settings - slovak
(bottom bar, json parsing errors, empty market)
http://pastebin.com/J050FauJ
http://pastebin.com/f2xE0Spd
http://imgur.com/a/EDmQY

regional settings - english
(works perfect)
http://pastebin.com/KMg4MtiM
http://pastebin.com/5kh3ALx8
http://imgur.com/a/Pc03T

[gabes]

So after tinkering a bit with Bitshares on Ubuntu I finally found out what causes the "corrupted config.json" bug.
It is the "Regional formats" in System settings -> Language support.
Some languages uses comma instead of period as a decimal point.
And this breaks the json parsing after running the app. (GUI only, command line versioin not affected)
This is supposed to affect many foreign users, so I hope the devs will treat this somehow.

Edit: After this, the app runs really good as I can tell.  :)

[gabes]

Never mind! I just found the "web_wallet" option.
Actually it works pretty well, including the market and also the network status bar.

[xeroc]

are you sure you are running the correct binary? what's the "last modify date" of the binary/executable?
have you tried removing the "chains" folder in "~/.BitShares" ?

[vikram]

I hope you guys will ironing out these glitches and will make the Qt client usable on linux.
I will follow the progress and will check the updates on a regular basis from an end user perspective.

Currently we do not provide support for Linux QT client.

[deprdoo]

Interesting. I have no problems in Ubuntu at all.

[gabes]

Hi I am new to bitshares, and wanna share my experience. I just tried the latest client 0.5 on Ubuntu 14.04 amd64.
First I downloaded the binaries from Scotts PPA. Later a built the client from sources on github. In both cases everything looks identical including bugs.
* I have to say the command line version works perfectly, without any glitch.

The GUI (Qt) version is unusable. I try to describe how it functions.
* After running the app, tens of JSON parse errors appears in notification and counting. The "show details" link doesn't work.
* There is a "Not connected" network status in the footer.
* There is a big red warning on the asset page: "Cannot get market status. Probably no orders have been placed." and the app doesn't show my asset balance.
(I didn't figured out how to check assets balance in cmd client)

* And now the interesting part:
After quiting the app it fails to run again. It also deletes the downloaded blockchain! I did a quick inspect and find out this:
Right after first run, the app immediately corrupts the config.json file. Notice the period replaced by comma at the end of file.

Normal config.json

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"wallet_callback_url": "",
  "client_debug_name": "",
  "growl_notify_endpoint": null,
  "growl_password": null,
  "growl_bitshares_client_identifier": null,
  "relay_fee": 0.10000000000000001,
  "light_relay_fee": 0.10000000000000001,
  "relay_account_name": "",
  "faucet_account_name": "",
  "track_statistics": true
}


Corrupted config.json

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"wallet_callback_url": "",
  "client_debug_name": "",
  "growl_notify_endpoint": null,
  "growl_password": null,
  "growl_bitshares_client_identifier": null,
  "relay_fee": 0,
  10000000000000001,
  "light_relay_fee": 0,
  10000000000000001,
  "relay_account_name": "",
  "faucet_account_name": "",
  "track_statistics": true
}


I hope you guys will ironing out these glitches and will make the Qt client usable on linux.
I will follow the progress and will check the updates on a regular basis from an end user perspective.