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

[Rafael Laboissière]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Thank you for the bug report.  I cannot reproduce it in my system and I 
am hereby requesting Assistance in diagnosing the cause of the problem.

Could you please check whether the problem persists using the testing 
or the experimental versions of the package ?

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

* Alex Hedges <aphedges at buffalo.edu> [2017-04-10 16:33]:

> 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.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>