Bug#819975: Fails to start

[Michael Biebl]

Package: gnome-characters
Version: 3.20.0-1
Severity: grave

Since the upgrade to 3.20.0, gnome-characters fails to start.
There is no output on stdout/stderr, but in the journal I get:

Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: (org.gnome.Characters:12455): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: TypeError: Main.settings is null
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: CharacterListView<._init at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/characterList.js:369
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: MainView<._createCharacterList at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/window.js:295
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: MainView<._init at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/window.js:273
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: MainWindow<._init at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/window.js:107
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: MyApplication<.vfunc_activate at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/main.js:99
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: wrapper at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: main at resource:///org/gnome/Characters/js/main.js:112
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: run at resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/package.js:192
Apr 04 15:27:13 pluto org.gnome.Characters[2091]: @/usr/share/org.gnome.Characters/org.gnome.Characters:6

Maybe some of the gsettings schemas I have installed are too old



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-characters depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.32.3-1.2
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.46.0-4
ii  gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0                      3.18.2-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.18.9-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.38.1-1
ii  gjs                                          1.44.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.22-5
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.14.6-1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.6-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.6.3-3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.32.3-1.2
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.48.0-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.18.9-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.38.1-1
ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0                            1.38.1-1

gnome-characters recommends no packages.

gnome-characters suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information