Bug#878000: ardour5 does not start on debian/testing it spins trying to load GTK2 breeze theme

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Wojciech,

First of all, thanks for reporting this!

Quoting Wojciech Zabołotny (2017-10-08 13:34:16)
> When I start the jack server, and then ardour5, it does not start.
> The "top" shows that ardour5 uses one CPU core in 100%.
> When I start it via "strace", I get the following messages displayed
> repeatedly:
[...]
> It looks, that ardour tries to load the Breeze gtk theme, and when it fails,
> it repeats that forever.
> I can see two problems there:
> 1. ardour should depend on the appropriate package providing the required
>    GUI theme
> 2. ardour should fail, displaying the reasonable error message without
>    looping forever.

Ardour does _not_ depend on a specific GTK+ widget theme.

Perhaps a bug elsewhere - e.g. in GTK+ or that particular theme - is 
triggered?

Did you configure your environment to use Breeze?  Could you please try 
switch to a different GTK+ theme instead?

Perhaps create a temporary new user on your system and start Ardour from 
there - to help avoid cruft in your own $HOME environment interfering.


 - Jonas

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