[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#860051: praat: Crashes on any attempt to run

[Rafael Laboissière]

Does the following work for you?

    praat --run getPitchTier.Praat

Rafael

* Alex Hedges <aphedges at buffalo.edu> [2017-05-05 11:46]:

> The problem persists using the testing version of the package. I believe 
> the problem with running praat is that my system lacks a monitor. I can 
> only access it through the terminal, but it crashes, even when I only try 
> to run a script that has no GUI-based IO. For a specific instance, I ran 
> the command praat --open "getPitchTier.Praat", where getPitchTier.Praat 
> contains the following contents:
>
> Read from file: "sentence.wav" 
> selectObject: "Sound sentence" 
> To Manipulation: 0.01, 75, 600 
> Extract pitch tier 
> Save as PitchTier spreadsheet file: "oldPitchTier.PitchTier"
>
> However, praat crashes regardless of input given.
>
> - Alex
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Rafael Laboissière <rafael at debian.org> 
> wrote:
>
>> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible
>>
>> Thank you for the bug report.  I cannot reproduce it in my system and I am 
>> hereby requesting Assistance in diagnosing the cause of the problem.
>>
>> Could you please check whether the problem persists using the testing or 
>> the experimental versions of the package ?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Rafael Laboissière
>>
>> * Alex Hedges <aphedges at buffalo.edu> [2017-04-10 16:33]:
>>
>>
>> Package: praat
>>> Version: 5.4.0-1
>>> Severity: important
>>>
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>>> When I invoke `praat' without arguments from an ordinary shell prompt, it 
>>> crashes and displays error messages. Here is a transcript:
>>>
>>> $ praat
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 
>>> 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gtk-WARNING **: Screen for GtkWindow not set; you must 
>>> always set a screen for a GtkWindow before using the window
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_default_colormap: 
>>> assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_colormap_get_visual: assertion 
>>> 'GDK_IS_COLORMAP (colormap)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_default_colormap: 
>>> assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 
>>> 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_screen_get_root_window: assertion 
>>> 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>>>
>>> (praat:9464): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_new: assertion 
>>> 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (parent)' failed Segmentation fault
>>>
>>>
>>> -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.7  APT prefers stable-updates 
>>> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: armhf 
>>> (armv7l)
>>>
>>> Kernel: Linux 4.4.30-ti-r64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
>>> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
>>>
>>> Versions of packages praat depends on: ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1 
>>> ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u7 ii  libcairo2 
>>> 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u2 ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3+deb8u1 ii 
>>> libfreetype6         2.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-10 ii 
>>> libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u5 ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1+b1 
>>> ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3+deb8u1 ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3 
>>> ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3 ii  libpangoft2-1.0-0    1.36.8-3 ii 
>>> libstdc++6           4.9.2-10 ii  oss-compat           6 ii  python 
>>>        2.7.9-1
>>>
>>> Versions of packages praat recommends: ii  xfonts-100dpi  1:1.0.3 ii 
>>> xfonts-75dpi   1:1.0.3
>>>
>>> praat suggests no packages.
>>>
>>> -- no debconf information
>>>
>>>
>>>