Bug#1098315: gnome-calculator opens when starting from Gnome, then freezes

[Trevor Vance]

Package: gnome-calculator
Version: 1:43.0.1-2
Followup-For: Bug #1098315
X-Debbugs-Cc: trevor.k.vance at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

   * What led up to the situation?
Package: gnome-calculator
Version: 43.0.1
Severity: normal

As of Feb 24, 2025, gnome-calculator fails to fetch currency rates from
https://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/data/rms_five.xls, logging:

Feb 24 14:18:51 lenovo gnome-calculato[690038]: currency-provider.vala:161:
Couldn't download IMF currency rate file: HTTP/2 Error: INTERNAL_ERROR
Feb 24 14:18:51 lenovo gnome-calculato[690038]: (../libsoup/soup-
session.c:334):soup_session_dispose: runtime check failed:
(soup_connection_manager_get_num_conns (priv->conn_manager) == 0)
Feb 24 14:18:51 lenovo gnome-calculato[690038]: (../libsoup/soup-connection-
manager.c:78):soup_host_free: runtime check failed: (host->conns == NULL)

The IMF URL now returns 403 Forbidden (confirmed via curl), likely restricted
around Feb 24—earlier runs (Jan 14-Feb 18) had no errors. Depends on
libsoup-3.0-0 (3.0.7-2), which hasn’t updated recently; a Jan 13 libsoup2.4-1
update (2.74.3-1 to 2.74.3-1+deb12u1) might’ve tightened HTTP/2 handling
indirectly, but the IMF change seems primary.

Workaround: `dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/refresh-interval 0`.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Set `dconf write /org/gnome/calculator/refresh-interval 7`
2. Run `gnome-calculator`
3. Check `journalctl | grep gnome-calculator`.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.9
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-30-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_FIRMWARE_WORKAROUND, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-calculator depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.2.2-1
ii  libc6                                        2.36-9+deb12u9
ii  libgee-0.8-2                                 0.20.6-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.74.6-2+deb12u5
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.8.3+ds-2+deb12u1
ii  libgtksourceview-5-0                         5.6.2-1
ii  libmpc3                                      1.3.1-1
ii  libmpfr6                                     4.2.0-1
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                                3.2.2-2
ii  libxml2                                      2.9.14+dfsg-1.3~deb12u1

Versions of packages gnome-calculator recommends:
ii  gvfs  1.50.3-1
ii  yelp  42.2-1

gnome-calculator suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information