[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Tcl/Tk help needed (Was: Bug#767145: autodocktools: fails to start the GUI)

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Wed Dec 23 20:42:24 UTC 2015


Hi Tcl/Tk packaging team,

unfortunately I got no help on debian-mentors and since we somehow need
to tackle bug  #767144 I wonder if you Tcl/Tk experts might be able to
provide some help.

This would be really great

     Andreas.

PS: Please CC the bug in any answer.

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:06:49PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Senthil,
> 
> thanks for your bug report.  I can confirm that I'm able to reproduce
> the problem here.
> 
> A web search for the string
>   "TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside"
> lead to sevral autodocktools / mgltools related hints.  I tried to
> follow one of them[1] which at the bottom says:
> 
>   As the latest builds are bundling tcl and tk (which is version 8.5) we cannot
>   test for compatibility with tcl/tk-8.6
> 
> and checked where tcl/tk is actually used.  As far as I can see only the
> module mgltools-opengltk has a tcltk dependency.  I tried building this
> with forcing 8.5 instead of Debian's default 8.6 and tried what might
> happen but the error remains.  So I'm a bit clueless what to do now and
> I wonder whether Steffen who has way more insight into this software
> might think.
> 
> Steffen, just tell me if you are interested in my patches for
> mgltools-opengltk which I did not commited since they do not solve
> the problem.  Its basically deactivating tcllib.patch and fixing
> the Build-Dependency.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> [1] http://mgldev.scripps.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1346
> 
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:24:59PM +0530, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> > Package: autodocktools
> > Version: 1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > 
> > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
> > 
> >    * What led up to the situation?
> >    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> >      ineffective)?
> >    * What was the outcome of this action?
> >    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> > 
> > *** End of the template - remove these template lines ***
> > 
> > After installing autodocktools via apt-get, trying to start it in a machine
> > with GNOME desktop environment fails with the following error. Hence
> > autodocktools GUI is unusable.
> > 
> > <snip>
> > stylesen at harshu:~$ autodocktools
> > Run ADT from  /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AutoDockTools
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/AutoDockTools/__init__.py", line 433,
> > in runADT
> >     title=title, withShell= not interactive, verbose=False, gui=gui)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/Pmv/moleculeViewer.py", line 1026, in
> > __init__
> >     trapExceptions=trapExceptions)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ViewerFramework/VF.py", line 387, in
> > __init__
> >     verbose=verbose)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ViewerFramework/VFGUI.py", line 444,
> > in __init__
> >     verbose=verbose,guiMaster=VIEWER_root,)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Viewer.py", line 586, in
> > __init__
> >     cnf=cnf, **kw)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Viewer.py", line 285, in
> > AddCamera
> >     c = classCamera(master, screenName, self, num, cnf=cnf, **kw)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Camera.py", line 2189, in
> > __init__
> >     self.AddTrackball()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Camera.py", line 2583, in
> > AddTrackball
> >     self.trackball = Trackball(self, size, rscale, tscale, sscale, renorm )
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Trackball.py", line 88, in
> > __init__
> >     self.createSpinGui()
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/DejaVu/Trackball.py", line 726, in
> > createSpinGui
> >     callback=self.setWithSpinGui,
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
> > packages/mglutil/gui/BasicWidgets/Tk/vector3DGUI.py", line 90, in __init__
> >     self.createEntries(self.frame)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-
> > packages/mglutil/gui/BasicWidgets/Tk/vector3DGUI.py", line 360, in
> > createEntries
> >     self.f.grid(column=3, rowspan=3)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 2022, in grid_configure
> >     + self._options(cnf, kw))
> > TclError: cannot use geometry manager grid inside
> > ..139747144006544.139747144007048.139747087050008.139747087052240 which already
> > has slaves managed by pack
> > hit enter to continue
> > </snip>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: jessie/sid
> >   APT prefers testing-updates
> >   APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 3.16-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> > Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
> > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> > 
> > Versions of packages autodocktools depends on:
> > ii  mgltools-molkit                         1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-pmv                            1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-support                        1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-viewerframework                1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-volume                         1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  python                                  2.7.8-1
> > ii  python-pil.imagetk [python-imaging-tk]  2.5.1-1
> > 
> > Versions of packages autodocktools recommends:
> > ii  mgltools-pyautodock   1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-utpackages   1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > ii  mgltools-webservices  1.5.7~rc1+cvs.20140424-1
> > 
> > Versions of packages autodocktools suggests:
> > pn  autodock       <none>
> > pn  autodock-vina  <none>
> > pn  ballview       <none>
> > pn  mgltools-cadd  <none>
> > 
> > -- no debconf information
> > 
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