[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#913309: Pcbnew: assertion failed on startup

[Alexandre Oliveira]

On 10/11/2018 06:51, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1802359
> Control: tags -1 help
>
> Hello Alexandre,
>
> Am 09.11.18 um 14:32 schrieb Alexandre Oliveira:
>> Package: kicad
>> Version: 5.0.1+dfsg1-2~bpo9+1
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> After updating to KiCad v5.0.1 through stretch-backports, starting
>> Pcbnew will crash, with an assertion failed error (down below).>
>> I've created an issue on their issue tracker and they told me this is
>> an old problem, caused by building wxwidgets with gtk2 and wxpython
>> with gtk3.>
>> Link to the issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1802359
> right now I won't believe in Wayne statement as we talking about about
> Stretch which doesn't now anything about GTK3 in wxWidgets or wxpython.
> So it might be there is some other reason why you see this error.
> Correctly there is not that much I can do about this problem.
>

I've found the problem. Back in August, when I installed Debian on my
laptop, I tried installing Kicad 5.0 by adding the testing (buster) to
my apt sources. I managed to mess up my entire system, but I also
managed to fix it by downgrading the upgraded packages. Looks like I
missed one in the downgrade process.

The problematic package was python-wxgtk3.0, version 3.0.2.0+dfsg-8,
when it should be using version 3.0.2.0+dfsg-4. I've downgraded it and
Pcbnew is working again.

Thanks!