Mendeley Desktop launcher script with GDB

mendeleydesktop

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import subprocess
import sys
import platform

# Check if this is a 'generic Linux' build (which could be installed anywhere)
# or an Ubuntu/Debian build (installed to /usr/bin/mendeleydesktop
# with other files in /opt/mendeleydesktop)
SCRIPT_PATH = os.path.realpath(__file__)
IS_LINUX_DISTRO_BUILD = not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(SCRIPT_PATH) + "/../lib/mendeleydesktop/")

def library_paths():

	paths = []

	# Check paths listed in LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
	# (starting with the first path)
	try:
		ld_library_paths = os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"].split(":")
		for path in ld_library_paths:
			if (len(path) > 0):
				paths.append(path)
	except KeyError:
		pass

	# Check default system library paths
	paths.append("/lib64")
	paths.append("/lib")
	paths.append("/usr/lib64")
	paths.append("/usr/lib")
	paths.append("/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu")
	paths.append("/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu")

	return paths

def find_library(lib_name):

	lib_path = None

	for path in library_paths():
		candidate_lib_path = path + '/' + lib_name

		if (os.path.exists(candidate_lib_path)):
			lib_path = os.path.realpath(candidate_lib_path)
			break

	return lib_path

def library_version_from_path(lib_path):
		
	if lib_path:
		suffix = ".so."
		suffix_pos = lib_path.find(suffix)
		version_string = lib_path[suffix_pos + len(suffix):]

		return version_string
	else:
		return None

def version_less_than(version_a,version_b):

	if (not version_a):
		version_a = ""
	if (not version_b):
		version_b = ""

	period_a = version_a.find(".")
	period_b = version_b.find(".")

	if (period_a < 0):
		period_a = len(version_a)
	if (period_b < 0):
		period_b = len(version_b)

	mid_version_a = version_a[0:period_a]
	mid_version_b = version_b[0:period_b]

	version_part_a = None
	version_part_b = None

	try:
		version_part_a = int(mid_version_a)
	except ValueError:
		pass

	try:
		version_part_b = int(mid_version_b)
	except ValueError:
		pass

	if (not version_part_a and not version_part_b):
		# Both version components are non-numeric, treat
		# them as equal
		return False
	elif (version_part_a and not version_part_b):
		# Left version component is numeric, right component is not.
		# Treat the numeric part as greater
		return False
	elif (version_part_b and not version_part_a):
		# Right version component is numeric, left component is not.
		# Treat the numeric part as greater
		return True
	elif (version_part_a < version_part_b):
		return True
	else:
	 	# Version components at current left are equal, compare
	 	# remaining parts
		return version_less_than(version_a[period_a+1:],version_b[period_b+1:])

def find_libraries_in_path(path,library_filenames,version):

	missing_libs = []
	for filename in library_filenames:
		lib_filename = "lib" + filename + ".so." + version
		library_path = path + '/' + lib_filename
		if (os.path.exists(library_path) == False):
			missing_libs += [library_path]
	return missing_libs
	
# Verify that the Qt installation in 'path' with 'version' contains all the
# required libraries needed to run Mendeley Desktop.
#
# This does not check whether all required plugins are installed.
# 
def check_qt_install(path,version):

	required_libs = ["QtCore","QtGui","QtNetwork","QtSvg","QtXmlPatterns"]
	missing_libs = find_libraries_in_path(path,required_libs,version)

	# QtWebKit is now released separately from the rest of Qt
	# and may have different minor/patch versions
	missing_libs += find_libraries_in_path(path,["QtWebKit"],"4")

	if (len(missing_libs) != 0):
		print("Unable to use Qt libraries in " + path + " because some Qt libraries are missing:\n\t" + "\n\t".join(missing_libs))
		return False
	else:
		return True

MINIMUM_QT_VERSION = "4.6"
BUNDLED_QT_VERSION = "4.6"

# Base path of actual Mendeley Desktop binary and
# bundled libraries relative to this script
if (IS_LINUX_DISTRO_BUILD):
	MENDELEY_BASE_PATH = sys.path[0] + "/../../opt/mendeleydesktop"
else:
	MENDELEY_BASE_PATH = sys.path[0] + "/../"

# Path to Mendeley Desktop and PDFNet libraries
MENDELEY_LIB_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/"

# Path to bundled Qt libraries
MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_LIBRARY_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/qt/"
MENDELEY_BUNDLED_SSL_LIBRARY_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/ssl/"

# Path to bundled Qt plugins
if (IS_LINUX_DISTRO_BUILD):
	MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_PLUGIN_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/plugins/qt/"
else:
	MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_PLUGIN_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/mendeleydesktop/"

# Path to the actual Mendeley Desktop executable
if (IS_LINUX_DISTRO_BUILD):
	MENDELEY_BIN_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/bin/mendeleydesktop"
else:
	if platform.architecture()[0] == "64bit":
		MENDELEY_BIN_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.x86_64"
	else:
		MENDELEY_BIN_PATH = MENDELEY_BASE_PATH + "/lib/mendeleydesktop/libexec/mendeleydesktop.i486"

	if (not os.path.exists(MENDELEY_BIN_PATH)):
		print("Unable to start Mendeley Desktop, the software may not be installed correctly.")
		print("Please check that you are using the correct version of Mendeley (32 or 64bit) for your system.")
		exit(1)

# Save the original library path so that Mendeley can launch
# external applications without them inheriting the library path changes
# made by this script
try:
	os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH_ORIGINAL"] = os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"]
except KeyError:
	pass

# Save the path to the script which started Mendeley, used to restart
# Mendeley after an auto-update
os.environ["MENDELEY_GENERIC"] = SCRIPT_PATH

# Check for forced usage of system or bundled Qt
# (optparse and getopt are not used here because we need to ignore arguments
#  intended for the main application)
use_system_qt = None
if (sys.argv.count("--force-system-qt") > 0):
    print("Forcing system Qt")
    use_system_qt = True
elif (sys.argv.count("--force-bundled-qt") > 0):
    print("Forcing bundled Qt")
    use_system_qt = False

# Find system Qt library
system_qt_library = find_library("libQtCore.so.4")
system_qt_version = None
if (system_qt_library):
	# Verify that all required Qt modules are available
	candidate_version = library_version_from_path(system_qt_library)
	if (check_qt_install(os.path.dirname(system_qt_library),candidate_version)):
		system_qt_version = candidate_version

if (use_system_qt == None):
	use_system_qt = not version_less_than(system_qt_version,MINIMUM_QT_VERSION)

	if (use_system_qt):
		print("Using system Qt version " + system_qt_version + " in " + os.path.dirname(system_qt_library))
	elif (system_qt_version):
		print("Using bundled Qt version " + BUNDLED_QT_VERSION + " because system version (" + system_qt_version + ") is too old")
	else:
		print("Using bundled Qt version " + BUNDLED_QT_VERSION + " because no system Qt version was found")

# Update library paths
new_lib_paths = None
try:
	new_lib_paths = os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"].split(":")
except KeyError:
	new_lib_paths = []
new_lib_paths = [MENDELEY_LIB_PATH] + new_lib_paths
if (not use_system_qt):
	new_lib_paths = [MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_LIBRARY_PATH, MENDELEY_BUNDLED_SSL_LIBRARY_PATH] + new_lib_paths

os.environ["LD_LIBRARY_PATH"] = ":".join(new_lib_paths)

# Update Qt plugin paths
new_qt_plugin_paths = None
if (use_system_qt):
	try:
		new_qt_plugin_paths = os.environ["QT_PLUGIN_PATH"].split(":")
	except KeyError:
		new_qt_plugin_paths = []
else:
	new_qt_plugin_paths = [MENDELEY_BUNDLED_QT_PLUGIN_PATH]

os.environ["QT_PLUGIN_PATH"] = ":".join(new_qt_plugin_paths)

# Run Mendeley Desktop
try:
	print("Running " + MENDELEY_BIN_PATH + " " + " ".join(sys.argv[1:]))

	# change the mendeley:// link handler to use the current Mendeley Desktop binary
	subprocess.Popen([MENDELEY_BASE_PATH+"/bin/install-mendeley-link-handler.sh",SCRIPT_PATH])

	if (IS_LINUX_DISTRO_BUILD):
		# Enable Linux distro specific changes (eg. in auto-update
		# handling)
		extra_args = ["--unix-distro-build"]
	else:
		extra_args = []

	args = ["gdb","--args",MENDELEY_BIN_PATH]
	result = subprocess.call(args + sys.argv[1:] + extra_args)

except OSError:
	# use exc_info() to get the exception object for compatibility with
	# Python 2.5 and 3.x
	error = sys.exc_info()[1]

	print("Failed to run Mendeley Desktop (path is " + MENDELEY_BIN_PATH + ")")
	print("Details: " + str(error))
	print("For help running Mendeley Desktop, please visit http://feedback.mendeley.com")

Hi Robert, thanks for posting this to http://support.mendeley.com/customer/portal/questions/136610-crash-won-t-start.

I ran backtrace and got "No stack."