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

[Alex Hedges]

The problem persists using the testing version of the package. I believe
the problem with running praat is that my system lacks a monitor. I can
only access it through the terminal, but it crashes, even when I only try
to run a script that has no GUI-based IO. For a specific instance, I ran
the command praat --open "getPitchTier.Praat", where getPitchTier.Praat
contains the following contents:

Read from file: "sentence.wav"
selectObject: "Sound sentence"
To Manipulation: 0.01, 75, 600
Extract pitch tier
Save as PitchTier spreadsheet file: "oldPitchTier.PitchTier"

However, praat crashes regardless of input given.

- Alex

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org>
wrote:

> 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
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
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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
>>
>>
>>
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