[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#860051: praat: Crashes on any attempt to run

[Alex Hedges]

Package: praat
Version: 5.4.0-1
Severity: important

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When I invoke `praat' without arguments from an ordinary shell
prompt, it crashes and displays error messages.
Here is a transcript:

$ praat

(praat:9464): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(praat:9464): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(praat:9464): Gtk-WARNING **: Screen for GtkWindow not set; you must always set
a screen for a GtkWindow before using the window

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_default_colormap: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_colormap_get_visual: assertion 'GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)' failed

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_default_colormap: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_new: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (parent)' failed
Segmentation fault


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: armhf (armv7l)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.30-ti-r64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages praat depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u7
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u5
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3+deb8u1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.36.8-3
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  oss-compat           6
ii  python               2.7.9-1

Versions of packages praat recommends:
ii  xfonts-100dpi  1:1.0.3
ii  xfonts-75dpi   1:1.0.3

praat suggests no packages.

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