Bug#986821: freecad: Garbled menu makes freecad unusable

[Tobias Frost]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:53:57AM +0200, Michael Jarosch wrote:
> Am 15.04.21 um 19:40 schrieb Tobias Frost:
> 
> > My third machine, a rusty Thinkpad E130 powered by an i3-3227-U.. Also
> > works…
> …and the E130 uses the same GPU core as my T530. Now, it's getting
> complicated!

Indeed...

Because I'm running out of questions: The T530 has options with an NVidia GPU.
Yours none of those, right?

> > What you can try:
> > - check what over packages have been updated that could bring the breakage
> >    (maybe some kernel or intel gfx thingy?)
> This would be a bit of work… I apt update/upgrade about every day, but I
> don't use freecad as often as I upgrade the system…
> Kernel is 5.10.0-5-amd64, now, but I guess this was upgraded, lately. No
> change, whatsoever.
> > - temporarily rename ~/.FreeCAD to something else, to rule out that there is
> >    something in the config.
> Done that, no change.
> > - Can you ensure that all freecad packages are updated... (I think a versioned
> >    depdency is missing, possibly #980474) I tried manually to get to an
> invalid combination,
> >    but the only "solution" was package freecad at 0.19 and freecad-common at
> >    0.18, which makes freecad stop working, but with an different error (no python
> >    module named freecad, completly empty main window)
> 
> On my system, there is freecad, freecad-common, freecad-python3,
> libfreecad-python3-0.19 and every single package is labeled as
> 0.19.1+dfsg1-2.
> 
> Another try: I'm using Gnome on all my 3 systems(, which should all have the
> same Gnome version numbers, since I use Debian Testing on all of those
> machines). Do you use another Desktop Environment?

I'm using Gnome as well. But I'm on unstable for the Nvidia machine and on testing
for the others.

Another random idea: Can you try to create a new user and try from there. Just to
ensure that there isnt something with your user account (E.g I had a silly bug where
I had something in $HOME/.local shadowing stuff some time ago…)

Another possiblity: Do you have obsolete packages installed? (aptitude has
this section "Locally generated packages" which are also packages that have been
removed. Maybe something from there...


> Greets!
>