ROOT Version: 6.32.04
Platform: Ubuntu 24.04 (through WSL)
Compiler: g++
I recently installed ROOT in Ubuntu 24.04 through WSL on my Windows 11 computer. To do this, I followed all the standard ROOT installation instructions for a pre-compiled binary distribution in Ubuntu, making sure to install all the dependencies first as listed on the ROOT website. I also added the correct source command to my .bashrc.
The first thing I did to test my new ROOT installation was to open a browser window via new TBrowser(), after which I received a segmentation violation and gross-looking stack trace (see below). A bit of searching yielded some forum posts which seem to say that getting ROOT to work properly on Ubuntu is a pain. However, I’m not sure whether my issue has to do with my WSL-based environment, or if it is really just an Ubuntu issue and I should try a different Linux distribution. I did also try ldconfig as suggested in some forum posts, but that didn’t seem to help at all.
The error message was as follows:
cling::DynamicLibraryManager::loadLibrary(): libgif.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error in <TInterpreter::TCling::AutoLoad>: failure loading library libASImage.so for TASImage
cling::DynamicLibraryManager::loadLibrary(): libgif.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Error in <TGVSplitter::TGVSplitter>: splitterv.xpm not found
Error in <TGHSplitter::TGHSplitter>: splitterh.xpm not found
Error in <TGComboBox::TGComboBox>: arrow_down.xpm not found
Error in <TGVScrollBar::TGVScrollBar>: arrow_*.xpm not found
*** Break *** segmentation violation
Generating stack trace...
0x00007fee933ef670 in TGListBox::Resize(unsigned int, unsigned int) at TGListBox.cxx:? from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee9337a0f9 in TGComboBox::Init() + 0x1a9 from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee9337b59c in TGComboBox::TGComboBox(TGWindow const*, char const*, int, unsigned int, unsigned long) + 0x19c from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee933aa3ef in TGFileBrowser::CreateBrowser() + 0xdf from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee933abc4b in TGFileBrowser::TGFileBrowser(TGWindow const*, TBrowser*, unsigned int, unsigned int) + 0x13b from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee92dcc0ab in <unknown function>
0x00007feea944c5f8 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c5f51 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c6708 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c6982 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea94c0cbf in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea92b785c in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea92d0301 in TCling::ProcessLine(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) + 0x14f1 from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feeafd006ee in TROOT::ProcessLine(char const*, int*) + 0x8e from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007fee934dea6e in TRootBrowser::ExecPlugin(char const*, char const*, char const*, int, int) + 0x23e from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee934de2b2 in TRootBrowser::InitPlugins(char const*) + 0xa2 from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee934e069e in TRootBrowser::TRootBrowser(TBrowser*, char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, char const*, bool) + 0x22e from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee934e07b0 in TRootBrowser::NewBrowser(TBrowser*, char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, char const*) + 0x50 from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007fee92e331e6 in <unknown function>
0x00007feeafda76c5 in long TPluginHandler::ExecPluginImpl<TBrowser*, char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, char const*>(TBrowser* const&, char const* const&, unsigned int const&, unsigned int const&, char const* const&) + 0x2d5 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007fee93506d22 in TRootGuiFactory::CreateBrowserImp(TBrowser*, char const*, unsigned int, unsigned int, char const*) + 0x142 from /root/lib/libGui.so
0x00007feeafda3382 in TBrowser::TBrowser(char const*, char const*, TBrowserImp*, char const*) + 0x162 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007feea8824065 in <unknown function>
0x00007feea944c5f8 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c5f51 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c6708 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea93c6982 in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea94c0cbf in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea92b785c in <unknown> from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feea92d0301 in TCling::ProcessLine(char const*, TInterpreter::EErrorCode*) + 0x14f1 from /root/lib/libCling.so
0x00007feeaffd7a7b in TRint::ProcessLineNr(char const*, char const*, int*) + 0x15b from /root/lib/libRint.so
0x00007feeaffd7e75 in TRint::HandleTermInput() + 0x215 from /root/lib/libRint.so
0x00007feeafe1a678 in TUnixSystem::CheckDescriptors() + 0x98 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007feeafe1da08 in TUnixSystem::DispatchOneEvent(bool) + 0x598 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007feeafd1f1b4 in TSystem::Run() + 0xe4 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007feeafca1c17 in TApplication::Run(bool) + 0x27 from /root/lib/libCore.so
0x00007feeaffd97c2 in TRint::Run(bool) + 0x3d2 from /root/lib/libRint.so
0x000056490de12303 in main + 0x53 from /root/bin/root.exe
0x00007feeaf65e1ca in <unknown> from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
0x00007feeaf65e28b in __libc_start_main + 0x8b from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
0x000056490de12355 in _start + 0x25 from /root/bin/root.exe
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Is there perhaps an installation detail I missed by which I can get this to work? If it is an Ubuntu problem, it should be pretty easy for me to just try a different Linux distribution (if there is a better one suggested).
Steps to reproduce:
- Install Ubuntu 24.04 through WSL on Windows 11
- Launch Ubuntu in the root user and install ROOT dependencies:
apt-get install binutils cmake dpkg-dev g++ gcc libssl-dev git libx11-dev \
libxext-dev libxft-dev libxpm-dev python3 libtbb-dev libvdt-dev
- Download and install ROOT in the root directory
cd ~/..
wget https://root.cern/download/root_v6.32.04.Linux-ubuntu24.04-x86_64-gcc13.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf root_v6.32.04.Linux-ubuntu24.04-x86_64-gcc13.2.tar.gz
- Source ROOT via
source /root/bin/thisroot.sh(I added this to my~root/.bashrc) - Start ROOT and run
new TBrowser()