[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#905221: kicad: pcbnew immediately crashes after invocation without showing a GUI (failed assertion)

[Werner Frey]

Package: kicad
Version: 5.0.0+dfsg1-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

pcbnew aborts immediately after invocation on my i386 Debian Buster installation.
The kicad package was freshly installed for the first time.
There were no changes to the default configuration of the package.
When I started pcbnew the very first time a hint window pops up, saying that I am
using pcbnew the first time using the new search method for footprints. After I
confirmed the popup by clicking the OK button, the messages below appeared and
pcbnew aborted. On later invocations the popup window doesn't appear and pcbnew
aborts immediatly showing the messages below.

As this behaviour also kills eeschema without any warning  when searching for footprints
from within eeschema the complete kicad package is unusable for me.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
$ pcbnew
16:43:53: Debug: Checking template path '/usr/share/kicad/template' exists
16:43:53: Debug: wxColour::Set - couldn't set to colour string 'NONE'
   ... message repeated 70 times
16:43:53: Debug: wxColour::Set - couldn't set to colour string 'NONE'
pcbnew: /build/kicad-0u70G2/kicad-5.0.0+dfsg1/include/geometry/rtree.h:1643: void RTree<DATATYPE, ELEMTYPE, NUMDIMS, ELEMTYPEREAL, TMAXNODES, TMINNODES>::Classify(int, int, RTree<DATATYPE, ELEMTYPE, NUMDIMS, ELEMTYPEREAL, TMAXNODES, TMINNODES>::PartitionVars*) [with DATATYPE = KIGFX::VIEW_ITEM*; ELEMTYPE = int; int NUMDIMS = 2; ELEMTYPEREAL = float; int TMAXNODES = 8; int TMINNODES = 4]: Zusicherung !a_parVars->m_taken[a_index] nicht erfllt.
Abgebrochen
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.116.phobos (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages kicad depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.27-5
ii  libcairo2               1.15.10-3
ii  libcurl4                7.60.0-2
ii  libgcc1                 1:8.1.0-12
ii  libglew2.0              2.0.0-6
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]  9.0.0-2.1
ii  libglx0                 1.0.0+git20180308-3
ii  libgomp1                8.1.0-12
ii  libopengl0              1.0.0+git20180308-3
ii  libpixman-1-0           0.34.0-2
ii  libpython2.7            2.7.15-3
ii  libssl1.1               1.1.0h-4
ii  libstdc++6              8.1.0-12
ii  libwxbase3.0-0v5        3.0.4+dfsg-4
ii  libwxgtk3.0-0v5         3.0.4+dfsg-4
ii  python                  2.7.15-3
ii  python-wxgtk3.0         3.0.2.0+dfsg-8

Versions of packages kicad recommends:
ii  kicad-demos      5.0.0+dfsg1-1
ii  kicad-libraries  5.0.0+dfsg1-1
pn  xsltproc         <none>

Versions of packages kicad suggests:
ii  extra-xdg-menus   1.0-4
ii  kicad-doc-en      5.0.0+dfsg1-1
pn  kicad-packages3d  <none>

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