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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:34:22 +0300
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] can't run gschem, but can run gaf --version (Guile problems?)
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Hi John,

On 7/14/16, John Griessen (john AT ecosensory DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> I noticed this with debian jessie packages, then took those out, then
> compiled and same error messages:
>
> john AT toolbench64 [culture_shock]gschem
> Backtrace:
> In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
>   157: 1 [catch #t #<catch-closure 2512c00> ...]
> In unknown file:
>     ?: 0 [apply-smob/1 #<catch-closure 2512c00>]
>
> ERROR: In procedure apply-smob/1:
> ERROR: In procedure scm_to_utf8_stringn: Wrong type argument in position 1
> (expecting string): #f
>
> All guile 1.8 removed:
> un  guile-1.8-dev             <none>                        <none>
>
> I found reference to guile being trouble after version 2.0.9, so installed
> these from debian oldstable:
>
> ii  guile-2.0                  2.0.5+1-3                     amd64    GNU
> extension language and Scheme interpreter
> ii  guile-2.0-dev             2.0.5+1-3                     amd64
>
> also removed all contents of /usr/local/share/gEDA, then rebuilt and did
> sudo make install...
>
> Do I  need to get recent guile and compile it with special options?
>

guile 2.0.11 is available for several years and it has been
installed on my system.

Did you do 'sudo make install'? (and I usually do 'sudo ldconfig'
as well, though it's another issue)

And your issue looks like [1].

HTH,
  Vladimir

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/geda/+bug/1492599