[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#767145: autodocktools: fails to start the GUI

[Senthil Kumaran]

Package: autodocktools
Version: 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
Severity: important

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After installing autodocktools via apt-get, trying to start it in a machine
with GNOME desktop environment fails with the following error. Hence
autodocktools GUI is unusable.

<snip>
stylesen at harshu:~$ autodocktools
Run ADT from  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AutoDockTools
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AutoDockTools/__init__.py", line 433,
in runADT
    title=title, withShell= not interactive, verbose=False, gui=gui)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pmv/moleculeViewer.py", line 1026, in
__init__
    trapExceptions=trapExceptions)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ViewerFramework/VF.py", line 387, in
__init__
    verbose=verbose)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ViewerFramework/VFGUI.py", line 444,
in __init__
    verbose=verbose,guiMaster=VIEWER_root,)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Viewer.py", line 586, in
__init__
    cnf=cnf, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Viewer.py", line 285, in
AddCamera
    c = classCamera(master, screenName, self, num, cnf=cnf, **kw)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Camera.py", line 2189, in
__init__
    self.AddTrackball()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Camera.py", line 2583, in
AddTrackball
    self.trackball = Trackball(self, size, rscale, tscale, sscale, renorm )
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Trackball.py", line 88, in
__init__
    self.createSpinGui()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Trackball.py", line 726, in
createSpinGui
    callback=self.setWithSpinGui,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
packages/mglutil/gui/BasicWidgets/Tk/vector3DGUI.py", line 90, in __init__
    self.createEntries(self.frame)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
packages/mglutil/gui/BasicWidgets/Tk/vector3DGUI.py", line 360, in
createEntries
    self.f.grid(column=3, rowspan=3)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2022, in grid_configure
    + self._options(cnf, kw))
TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside
..139747144006544.139747144007048.139747087050008.139747087052240 which already
has slaves managed by pack
hit enter to continue
</snip>



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages autodocktools depends on:
ii  mgltools-molkit                         1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-pmv                            1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-support                        1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-viewerframework                1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-volume                         1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  python                                  2.7.8-1
ii  python-pil.imagetk [python-imaging-tk]  2.5.1-1

Versions of packages autodocktools recommends:
ii  mgltools-pyautodock   1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-utpackages   1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
ii  mgltools-webservices  1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1

Versions of packages autodocktools suggests:
pn  autodock       <none>
pn  autodock-vina  <none>
pn  ballview       <none>
pn  mgltools-cadd  <none>

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