Bug#1006745: kicad pcbnew not start

[scaldov]

Package: kicad
Version: 6.0.2+dfsg-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,
I completely cannot edit pcb layout.
When I try to open .kicad_pcb in my kicad project, I get two
messageboxes "cannot open shared library libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0" and
"could not load kiface library /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface"

When I do
ldd /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface
in terminal, I get
libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_aui-3.0.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_html-3.0.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_core-3.0.so.0 => not found
libwx_gtk2u_stc-3.0.so.0 => not found

I try to find "apt search wx gtk2", but no such packages in repository.
We cannot use kicad in debian for 2 years! Do you ever test the
package?
How could it be possible? Debian some time ago was splendid distro but
now its quality breaks another bottom.

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hello,

Am Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 07:52:43AM +0400 schrieb scaldov:

> Dear Maintainer,
> I completely cannot edit pcb layout.
> When I try to open .kicad_pcb in my kicad project, I get two
> messageboxes "cannot open shared library libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0" and
> "could not load kiface library /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface"
>
> When I do
> ldd /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface
> in terminal, I get
> libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0 => not found
> libwx_gtk2u_aui-3.0.so.0 => not found
> libwx_gtk2u_adv-3.0.so.0 => not found
> libwx_gtk2u_html-3.0.so.0 => not found
> libwx_gtk2u_core-3.0.so.0 => not found
> libwx_gtk2u_stc-3.0.so.0 => not found

these all are GTK+2 related libraries where KiCad in Debian is not
linked against it since the release of buster! This is almost 3 years
ago.
So the question for me is where the file/symlink in /usr/bin is comming
from, but apperently not from a recent Debian package in my eyes.

$ ldd /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface | grep libwx
libwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_gl-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353f55000)
libwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_aui-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353eba000)
libwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_adv-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353cd2000)
libwx_gtk3u_html-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_html-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353bec000)
libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_core-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353573000)
libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu_net-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353529000)
libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353291000)
libwx_gtk3u_propgrid-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_propgrid-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353198000)
libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_baseu_xml-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa353186000)
libwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwx_gtk3u_stc-3.0.so.0 (0x00007fa352f82000)

Unfortunately you don't have used the reportbug tool in a way that were
we could see some more information about your local installation.

Also you don't provide enough information about what you have done, and
what not, which architecture you are running etc, and if you use some other
packages sources which are not from Debian etc.

> I try to find "apt search wx gtk2", but no such packages in repository.

Yes, that's quite normal as Debian isn't supporting the WX tookit with
GTK+2 bindings anymore as a release goal for bullseye.

> We cannot use kicad in debian for 2 years! Do you ever test the
> package?

Of course we test new KiCad packages in various ways, but I wonder a bit
how you can say KiCad is unusable for 2 years and you haven't complaint
before about.

> How could it be possible? Debian some time ago was splendid distro but
> now its quality breaks another bottom.

For me Debian is still my first choise, but you are free to use what ever
distribution you like.
It's not helpfull for me or other users complaining about very
unspecific things. I've no idea what you mean by "quality breaks" since some
time.

You could be more helpful by providing more and detailed information.

What EXACTELY you are unhappy about?
How can the issue you have readjusted by others?
Did these problems also happen if started within a new and fresh Debian
installation?

Please try to have a look at your issue(s) from a POV of a maintainer, the
package maintainer don't know you local setup not what you have done. Without
enough information it's mostly impossible to fix up things.

Regards
Carsten

[Stanislav Maslovski]

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 07:52:43AM +0400, scaldov wrote:
> Package: kicad
> Version: 6.0.2+dfsg-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I completely cannot edit pcb layout.
> When I try to open .kicad_pcb in my kicad project, I get two
> messageboxes "cannot open shared library libwx_gtk2u_gl-3.0.so.0" and
> "could not load kiface library /usr/bin/_pcbnew.kiface"

Which version of Debian are you using? Here, I have Debian 11 (bullseye)
with KiCAD installed from backports:

% apt-cache policy kicad
kicad:
Installed: 6.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo11+1
Candidate: 6.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo11+1
Version table:
6.0.2+dfsg-1 100
100 http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
*** 6.0.2+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 200
200 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.1.9+dfsg1-1 500
500 http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
5.0.2+dfsg1-1 500
500 http://ftp.pt.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

Everything works as expacted.

--
Stanislav Maslovski