Bug#537298: openoffice.org: Starting Ooo gives the warning "** (soffice:6473): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number"

Julian Gilbey jdg at debian.org
Thu Jul 16 22:36:27 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:52:42PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > Version: 1:3.0.1-9
> 
> I'd have been bice if you would have checked with sids version instead
> of the unsupported version currently in testing.

Sorry, I'm running a testing system and don't have a working unstable
system right now :-(

> > When starting openoffice.org - any of the suite - from a terminal, I
> > get the warning message:
> > ** (soffice:6473): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number
> > (where 6473 will be replaced by the process id).
> > 
> > Hopefully this is harmless, but if so, why the warning?
> 
> Because atk_get_toolkit_version() fails. Did you have Accessibility enabled
> and atk/libgail etc installed?

I have:

ii  libatk1.0-0    1.26.0-1       The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libatk1.0-data 1.26.0-1       Common files for the ATK accessibility toolk
ii  libatk1.0-dbg  1.26.0-1       The ATK libraries and debugging symbols

ii  libgail-common 2.16.1-2       GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library -
ii  libgail-dbg    2.16.1-2       Gail libraries and debugging symbols
ii  libgail-gnome- 1.20.1-1       libgail-gnome library and debugging symbols
ii  libgail-gnome- 1.20.1-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation Module fo
ii  libgail18      2.16.1-2       GNOME Accessibility Implementation Library -

I don't think I have Accessibility enabled.

> bool InitAtkBridge(void)
> {
>     const char* pVersion = atk_get_toolkit_version();
>     if( ! pVersion )
>     {
>         g_warning( "unable to get gail version number" );
>         return false;
>     }
> [...]
> 
> This is patched in ooo-build some time ago already with

Yay!

> No idea why atk_get_toolkit_version() fails, though :)

Oh well, never mind then.  Sorry for the noise.

   Julian



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