ivview application does not start

[cschol]

[SRU] The patch attached to comment #4 backports the following changes from 2.1.5-10-17 in Saucy:
- patches/add-required-libs.patch: Link with -lXm before -lXt. (LP: #1006988)
- patches/buildsystem.patch: Use xdg-open as PDF viewer. (LP: #1208162)
- patch/configurability.patch: Fix opening About page in revo. (Upstream revision 46200)

[IMPACT]
Attempting to run any of the programs listed below fails with the following error:

Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "DropSiteManager" to parent "ivview" which supports only widgets

In package inventor-clients:
/usr/bin/ivview
/usr/bin/SceneViewer

In package inventor-demo:
/usr/lib/inventor/drop
/usr/lib/inventor/gview.RUNME
/usr/lib/inventor/maze
/usr/lib/inventor/noodle.RUNME
/usr/lib/inventor/qmorf.RUNME
/usr/lib/inventor/revo
/usr/lib/inventor/SceneViewer.RUNME
/usr/lib/inventor/textomatic

Additionally, all of the above programs are hard-coded to use xpdf for displaying their help pages (LP: #1208162). Xpdf would not be installed on a typical desktop as libinventor's recommends in Ubuntu were on xpdf | pdf-viewer, which would be satisfied by the desktop's default PDF viewer even though it would never be used. If xpdf is installed, it is almost guaranteed to segfault while opening any document (LP: #943195).

[Test Case]
Install inventor-clients and inventor-demo:
$ sudo apt-get install inventor-clients inventor-demo

Run any of the programs listed above, for example:
$ /usr/lib/inventor/qmorf.RUNME

Verify that the program is able to start.
Click on the About button, or from the menu; File / About, and verify that the About or help page is opened.

[Regression Potential]
The only packages in the archive depending on libinventor are those produced by this package. The inventor-clients and inventor-demo programs were unable to start so a regression couldn't make the situation worse.

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On Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit) the ivview application from the inventor-clients package fails with the following error on startup:

Warning: XmManager ClassInitialize: XmeTraitSet failed
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "DropSiteManager" to parent "ivview" which supports only widgets

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[swr164 (steffen-ruehl)]

I've reproduced this bug on
 - Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit)
 - Ubuntu 12.10 (32bit)

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Cheers, uploaded to SRU queue.

[Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57)]

Unsubscribing sponsors then.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

None of the patches were added to the series file.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

@Brian: That's correct, the updates were all to existing patches.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

The version in precise-proposed works for me.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

The verification of this Stable Release Update has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package inventor - 2.1.5-10-16ubuntu1.12.04.1

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inventor (2.1.5-10-16ubuntu1.12.04.1) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport the following changes from 2.1.5-10-17 in Saucy:
    - patches/add-required-libs.patch: Link with -lXm before -lXt.
      (LP: #1006988)
    - patches/buildsystem.patch: Use xdg-open as PDF viewer.
      (LP: #1208162)
    - patch/configurability.patch: Fix opening About page in revo.
      (Upstream revision 46200)
 -- Graham Inggs <email address hidden> Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:30:48 +0200