Bug#1070972: epiphany-browser fails to render webpages - blank pages

[richard]

Package: epiphany-browser
Version: 46.0-2
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: bug.reporter at mail.sheugh.com

Dear Maintainer,

A previously installed debian system** was reconfigured via 
the intallation of debian-12-5 from a dvd. That 'bookworm'
installation was updated to 'trixie' almost immediately, 
and additional packages, including epiphany-browser and 
konquerer browser were installed. 

On opening epiphany browser, as expected, six webpage tabs 
appeared, however the content of the pages was not rendered. 

These pages appeared to be blank. 

Moving the mouse over the pages showed that the webpage links 
were present. I did not explore further. 

A search on the internet suggested that libwebkitgtk might be 
a source of this problem. 

** prior to the reconfiguration I had saved all the packages 
to a folder. 

In that folder I ran 
# sudo dpkg -i ./libwebkitgtk*
 
This reported 
dpkg: warning: downgrading libwebkitgtk-6.0-4:amd64 from 2.44.1-1+b1 to 2.42.5-1

 libwebkitgtk-6.0-4:amd64 depends on libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1 (= 2.42.5-1);

I ran 
sudo dpkg -i ./libwebkitgtk* ./libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1*

And got 
(Reading database ... 158748 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libwebkitgtk-6.0-4_2.42.5-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libwebkitgtk-6.0-4:amd64 (2.42.5-1) over (2.42.5-1) ...
dpkg: warning: downgrading libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1:amd64 from 2.44.1-1+b1 to 2.42.5-1
Preparing to unpack .../libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1_2.42.5-1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1:amd64 (2.42.5-1) over (2.44.1-1+b1) ...
Setting up libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1:amd64 (2.42.5-1) ...
Setting up libwebkitgtk-6.0-4:amd64 (2.42.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.38-7) ...

The pages now appear as they should. 

HTH


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages epiphany-browser depends on:
hi  dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus]  1.14.10-4+b1
hi  epiphany-browser-data                         46.0-2
hi  gsettings-desktop-schemas                     46.0-1
hi  iso-codes                                     4.16.0-1
hi  libadwaita-1-0                                1.5.0-1
hi  libarchive13t64                               3.7.2-2
hi  libc6                                         2.38-7
hi  libcairo2                                     1.18.0-3+b1
hi  libgck-2-2                                    4.2.0-5
hi  libgcr-4-4                                    4.2.0-5
hi  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                           2.42.10+dfsg-3+b3
hi  libglib2.0-0t64                               2.80.1-1
hi  libgmp10                                      2:6.3.0+dfsg-2+b1
hi  libgranite-7-7                                7.4.0-1+b2
hi  libgraphene-1.0-0                             1.10.8-3+b1
hi  libgstreamer1.0-0                             1.24.3-1
hi  libgtk-4-1                                    4.12.5+ds-6+b1
hi  libhogweed6t64                                3.9.1-2.2
ii  libjavascriptcoregtk-6.0-1                    2.42.5-1
hi  libjson-glib-1.0-0                            1.8.0-2+b1
hi  libnettle8t64                                 3.9.1-2.2
hi  libpango-1.0-0                                1.52.2+ds-1
hi  libportal-gtk4-1                              0.7.1-5+b1
hi  libportal1                                    0.7.1-5+b1
hi  libsecret-1-0                                 0.21.4-1+b1
hi  libsoup-3.0-0                                 3.4.4-5+b1
hi  libsqlite3-0                                  3.45.3-1
ii  libwebkitgtk-6.0-4                            2.42.5-1
hi  libxml2                                       2.9.14+dfsg-1.3+b3

Versions of packages epiphany-browser recommends:
hi  ca-certificates  20240203
hi  evince           46.0-1+b1
hi  yelp             42.2-1+b2

epiphany-browser suggests no packages.

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