Bug#539571: gnome-terminal fails to start without libgnome2-common

[Andrew Price]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-2
Severity: normal

After installing Debian on a new system I installed gnome-terminal
without its recommends (I use wmii instead of gnome) and when I started
gnome-terminal it aborted with this message:

$ gnome-terminal
**
ERROR:terminal-app.c:1433:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
(app->system_font_desc != NULL)
Aborted

After some semi-systematic testing I found that the package which needs
to be installed to stop this happening is libgnome2-common. This package
is normally pulled in indirectly when gnome-terminal is installed with
recommends. Perhaps it should be a dependency instead?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-rc5-plato40 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.26.2-2 Data files for the GNOME terminal
ii libatk1.0-0 1.26.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.9-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-4 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.26.2-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libstartup-notification0 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte9 1:0.20.5-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.2-1 X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii gvfs 1.2.2-2 userspace virtual filesystem - ser
pn yelp <none> (no description available)

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

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[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 539571 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=590774

Andrew Price wrote:
> Package: gnome-terminal
> Version: 2.26.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
>
> After installing Debian on a new system I installed gnome-terminal
> without its recommends (I use wmii instead of gnome) and when I started
> gnome-terminal it aborted with this message:
>
> $ gnome-terminal
> **
> ERROR:terminal-app.c:1433:terminal_app_init: assertion failed:
> (app->system_font_desc != NULL)
> Aborted
>
> After some semi-systematic testing I found that the package which needs
> to be installed to stop this happening is libgnome2-common. This package
> is normally pulled in indirectly when gnome-terminal is installed with
> recommends. Perhaps it should be a dependency instead?

I'd rather fix it properly so that libgnome isn't needed (the dependency has
just been removed on 2.26). I've forwarded it upstream.

Cheers,
Emilio