Re: Mate problems

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 28/07/16 06:56 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote:
> Dnia 2016-07-27, śro o godzinie 22:27 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze:
> > On 27/07/16 09:33 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > On 27/07/16 07:32 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote:
> > > > Dnia 2016-07-27, śro o godzinie 19:10 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze:
> > > > > On 27/07/16 06:41 PM, Norbert Kiszka wrote:
> > > > > > Dnia 2016-07-26, wto o godzinie 19:07 -0400, Frank McCormick pisze:
> > > > > > > I am running Debian Stretch/Sid on AMD64 and noticed for the first
> > > > > > > time
> > > > > > > a problem with a Mate application. The Mate accounts dialog won't run
> > > > > > > because it detects gtk2 on the system.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > (mate-accountsdialog:12108): Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected.
> > > > > > > Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
> > > > > > > Trace/breakpoint trap
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Does anyone else have this problem ? Is there a way to fix it?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Compiled by hand or from a deb package?
> > > > >
> > > > > Deb package  from Debian repositories.
> > > >
> > > > Strange... Check what libraries are linked with:
> > > > $ ldd /usr/bin/something
> > >
> > > long list :)

> > >
> >
> > Strangely enough when I look at the control file in the
> > mate-accountsdialog.deb file
> >
> > I see this:
> >
> > Package: mate-accountsdialog
> > Version: 1.8.1-1
> > Architecture: amd64
> > Maintainer: MATE Packaging Team <pkg-mate-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> > Installed-Size: 211
> > Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4),
> > libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libfontconfig1 (>=
> > 2.11), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0),
> > libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libmate-desktop-2-17
> > (>= 1.6.1), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0),
> > libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101),
> > libpolkit-gtk-mate-1-0 (>= 1.6.0), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.2),
> > libsystemd0, libunique-1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), mate-accountsdialog-common (>=
> > 1.8.1-1), accountsservice
> > Section: utils
> > Priority: optional
> >
> > Homepage: https://github.com/NiceandGently/mate-accountsdialog
> >
> >
> > If you go to this home page...his last comment a few days ago
> > was "this package is obsolete".
> >
> > If that's the case, what is Debian doing distributing it as part
> > of the Mate desktop ?
>
>
> It looks like a bug to mee. Possibly Debian side, but not sure. My C
> (gcc) knowledge is poor. Maybe try to report a bug?

   Filed a bug #832807
   we'll see.