Bug#796685: blender: does not display objects

[watari at freenet.de]

Package: blender
Version: 2.63a-1+deb7u1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

    * What led up to the situation?

Just starting up blender, the GUI appears with the initial 
configuration, as known by the manual or various tutorials, with "the 
cube" as the object, in object mode. However, the cube did not really 
show up, neither did a lamp or a camera.

Generally, adding other objects did not lead to visible objects at the 
screen either, while they were existent, as suggested by the outliner on 
the top right corner of the screen.

    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
      ineffective)?

Only rendering could make the cube appearing at the screen.

    * What was the outcome of this action?

See above.

    * What outcome did you expect instead?

Normally, one would expect (after the mentioned manual or tutorials), 
that the initial configuration, with a cube, a lamp, and a camera, all 
of them visible, would show up (without rendering, which is something 
different), so that one would be able to work with them. (And the same 
should be the case for all other objects that are added in the course of 
work.)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
   APT prefers oldstable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-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

Versions of packages blender depends on:
ii  fonts-droid                       20111207+git-1
ii  libavcodec53                      6:0.8.17-1
ii  libavdevice53                     6:0.8.17-1
ii  libavformat53                     6:0.8.17-1
ii  libavutil51                       6:0.8.17-1
ii  libc6                             2.13-38+deb7u8
ii  libfftw3-3                        3.3.2-3.1
ii  libfontconfig1                    2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6                      2.4.9-1.1+deb7u1
ii  libgcc1                           1:4.7.2-5
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]          8.0.5-4+deb7u2
ii  libglew1.7                        1.7.0-3
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]            8.0.5-4+deb7u2
ii  libgomp1                          4.7.2-5
ii  libilmbase6                       1.0.1-4
ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.116]  1.9.8~dfsg.4+20120529git007cdc37-5
ii  libjpeg8                          8d-1+deb7u1
ii  libopenal1                        1:1.14-4
ii  libopenexr6                       1.6.1-6
ii  libopenjpeg2                      1.3+dfsg-4.8
ii  libpng12-0                        1.2.49-1
ii  libpython3.2                      3.2.3-7
ii  libsdl1.2debian                   1.2.15-5
ii  libsndfile1                       1.0.25-5
ii  libstdc++6                        4.7.2-5
ii  libswscale2                       6:0.8.17-1
ii  libtiff4                          3.9.6-11
ii  libx11-6                          2:1.5.0-1+deb7u2
ii  libxi6                            2:1.6.1-1+deb7u1
ii  python3.2                         3.2.3-7
ii  zlib1g                            1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

blender recommends no packages.

Versions of packages blender suggests:
pn  yafaray  <none>

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