Bug#435121: acroread fails to start after upgrade to libgtk2.0-0-2.11.6-1

Norbert Breun

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Jul 29, 2007, 8:10:09 AM7/29/07

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Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.11.6-1
Error message: (acroread:12892): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
kernel: Linux nmb 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP libc6 Version: 2.6-4

Hi there,

startup of acrobat reader fails with above noted error message after having upgraded following two packages:

libgtk2.0-0-2.11.6-1
libgtk2.0-common-2.11.6-1

This seems even to be an issue in Mandriva and UBUNTU as I found having googled about this.
Having downgraded to previous version 2.10.13-1 all works well again.

Kind regards
Norbert

Sven Arvidsson

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Aug 3, 2007, 11:10:17 AM8/3/07

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On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 13:50 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote:
> Error message: (acroread:12892): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> kernel: Linux nmb 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP libc6 Version: 2.6-4
>
>
> Hi there,
>
> startup of acrobat reader fails with above noted error message after
> having upgraded following two packages:
> libgtk2.0-0-2.11.6-1
> libgtk2.0-common-2.11.6-1
> This seems even to be an issue in Mandriva and UBUNTU as I found
> having googled about this.
> Having downgraded to previous version 2.10.13-1 all works well again.

For future reference, this issue is discussed in the adobe forums;
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bc4895e

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Sebastian Dröge

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Aug 4, 2007, 2:20:07 AM8/4/07

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forwarded 435121 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463270
thanks

Hi, this issue is not only with acroread but also with wxgtk apps like
audacity. I forwarded it to Gtk upstream, if someone can get better
backtraces that would be nice ;)

Downgrading to gtk 2.11.5 "fixes" it for me btw...

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463270

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Norbert Breun

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Aug 5, 2007, 11:00:13 AM8/5/07

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Hi there,

following experience: accessability is set to "false" using gconftool-2:

# gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
false

However acroread starts using accessability:

$ acroread
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.

even it is set to false even through acroread !

So I guess this IS a GTK issue....

Cheers

Norbert

Norbert Breun

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Aug 5, 2007, 11:10:15 AM8/5/07

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Package: libgtk2.0-0
Version: 2.11.6-1

Error message: (acroread:12892): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style: assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
kernel: Linux nmb 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP libc6 Version: 2.6-4

Hi there,

following experience: accessability is set to "false" using gconftool-2:

# gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/accessibility
false

However acroread starts using accessability:

$ acroread
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.
** Message: ATK_ROLE_TOOLTIP object found, but doesn't look like a tooltip.

even it is set to false even through acroread !

So I guess this IS a GTK issue....

Cheers

Norbert

Sebastian Dröge wrote:

Sven Arvidsson

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Sep 3, 2007, 3:10:14 PM9/3/07

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On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 13:50 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote:

> Error message: (acroread:12892): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> kernel: Linux nmb 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP libc6 Version: 2.6-4
> Hi there,
>
> startup of acrobat reader fails with above noted error message after
> having upgraded following two packages:
> libgtk2.0-0-2.11.6-1
> libgtk2.0-common-2.11.6-1
> This seems even to be an issue in Mandriva and UBUNTU as I found
> having googled about this.
> Having downgraded to previous version 2.10.13-1 all works well again.

This was apparently fixed (or at least worked around) in Fedora and
Ubuntu;

* debian/patches/090_from_fedora_better_tooltip_compat.patch:
- patch from fedora, improve the tooltip compatibility,
make acroread start again

I'm attaching Ubuntu's patch.

090_from_fedora_better_tooltip_compat.patch

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Sven Arvidsson

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Oct 16, 2007, 7:20:08 PM10/16/07

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On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 13:50 +0200, Norbert Breun wrote:

> Error message: (acroread:12892): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_rc_get_style:
> assertion `GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed
> kernel: Linux nmb 2.6.22-1-k7 #1 SMP libc6 Version: 2.6-4
>
>

> startup of acrobat reader fails with above noted error message after
> having upgraded following two packages:
> libgtk2.0-0-2.11.6-1
> libgtk2.0-common-2.11.6-1
> This seems even to be an issue in Mandriva and UBUNTU as I found
> having googled about this.
> Having downgraded to previous version 2.10.13-1 all works well again.

Hi again,

Have you tried this with the latest version of acroread? I think it's up
to version 8.1.1 now.

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Norbert Breun

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Oct 17, 2007, 2:50:17 AM10/17/07

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Hi Sven,

yes, the most current version (8.1.1) works fine for me.

Cheers

Norbert