[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#991642: kicad does not start several modules like eescheme

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello Hans,

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Am 29.07.21 um 19:41 schrieb Hans:
> Hi Carsten, 
> 
> thanks for the quick response. Of course, the more precise, the better. 
> 
> I read README.Debian, but as there was no helpfull information. 
> 
> My environment here is debian/amd64 with an Nvidia graphics card GF-8600GS, 
> which is using the 340xx proprietrary driver of the debian repo.
> 
> Kernel is 5.10-8-amd64, and I have tested it with Plasma5 and with LXDE as 
> well.
> 
> Strace did not give any usefull information, as it looks like CTL+E (for 
> example) is not seen.
> 
> Please note, when I am using the drop-down menu in kicad (I believe, it is 
> "Tools" in the English version, I am using the German language), then the 
> upper four options can alo not be clicked and are optical inactive (the font 
> is very low contrast).

that looks than more like a problem of KiCad itself or of the
integration of the NVidia driver. I probably can't do much here, there
is some upstream maintainer partipitation needed as they have more
experience in this specific part.

You can try to run your system with the Noveau driver and see if the
menu options are back then.

Of course there is nothing visible within strace if the shortcut options
aren't possible for whatever reason.
I can see some firework in the CLI if I hit one of the shortcuts and can
also see that some low level stuff is running before the Eeschema is
opened for example.

I was thinking of broken shortcut functionality too, but if you have
installed a fresh systen then no old KiCad settings are around in
$HOME/.config that could cause some strange behavior.

> So it looks for me, these 4 modules are either not activated in kicad or kicad 
> does not see at start, that they are existent. And if so, of course, CTL+E or 
> clicking it, will have no effect.

It's the best to open up a bug report in the upstream bug tracker as I
can't help much here and don't have an great idea right now.

Please report back the link to the upstream reports if there will get an
issue opened so we can track the status.

-- 
Regards
Carsten