Bug#873792: qjackctl will not start at all

[Sebastian Ramacher]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo

On 2017-08-31 02:40:59, Ed Peguillan III wrote:
> Package: qjackctl
> Version: 0.4.5-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
>    I use jackd to facilitate realtime audio according to my limits.conf
>    for some software called Pianoteq. In the last update, I tried to run
>    qjackctl and received the following error:
> 
>    qjackctl: symbol lookup error:
>    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5: undefined symbol:
>    FT_Property_Set

This looks like an old version of libfreetype.so.6 lying around somewhere in the
library search path (e.g. /usr/local/lib). Could you please confirm that by
running ldd -r /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 and checking where
the used libfreetype.so.5 is coming from?

Cheers

>    I am unable to start qjackctl
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
>    I do not think I intentionally installed any extra packages that stops qjackctl from launching properly.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    qjackctl does not launch
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
>    qjackctl launches normally
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (1000, 'testing'), (1000, 'stable'), (750, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.12.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages qjackctl depends on:
> ii  jackd                             5
> ii  libasound2                        1.1.3-5
> ii  libc6                             2.24-14
> ii  libgcc1                           1:7.2.0-1
> ii  libjack-jackd2-0 [libjack-0.125]  1.9.10+20150825git1ed50c92~dfsg-5
> ii  libqt5core5a                      5.9.1+dfsg-9
> ii  libqt5dbus5                       5.9.1+dfsg-9
> ii  libqt5gui5                        5.9.1+dfsg-9
> ii  libqt5widgets5                    5.9.1+dfsg-9
> ii  libqt5x11extras5                  5.9.1-2+b1
> ii  libqt5xml5                        5.9.1+dfsg-9
> ii  libstdc++6                        7.2.0-1
> ii  libx11-6                          2:1.6.4-3
> 
> qjackctl recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages qjackctl suggests:
> ii  pulseaudio-utils  10.0-2
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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-- 
Sebastian Ramacher
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