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

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Senthil,

thanks for your bug report.  I can confirm that I'm able to reproduce
the problem here.

A web search for the string
  "TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside"
lead to sevral autodocktools / mgltools related hints.  I tried to
follow one of them[1] which at the bottom says:

  As the latest builds are bundling tcl and tk (which is version 8.5) we cannot
  test for compatibility with tcl/tk-8.6

and checked where tcl/tk is actually used.  As far as I can see only the
module mgltools-opengltk has a tcltk dependency.  I tried building this
with forcing 8.5 instead of Debian's default 8.6 and tried what might
happen but the error remains.  So I'm a bit clueless what to do now and
I wonder whether Steffen who has way more insight into this software
might think.

Steffen, just tell me if you are interested in my patches for
mgltools-opengltk which I did not commited since they do not solve
the problem.  Its basically deactivating tcllib.patch and fixing
the Build-Dependency.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] http://mgldev.scripps.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1346

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:24:59PM +0530, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> Package: autodocktools
> Version: 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
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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>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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