Menu bar invisible

[Jan Heitkötter]

After starting Audacity, its main menu bar is invisible, though usable after pressing F10 key. The menu bar will be displayed properly after entering the Preferences dialog.

Removing Audacity's configuration directory does not help.

I've taken some screenshots to illustrate the problem.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: audacity 2.0.0-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-35.55-generic-pae 3.2.34
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic-pae i686
AlsaCards:
 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
                       HDA Intel at 0xee240000 irq 47
 29 [ThinkPadEC ]: ThinkPad EC - ThinkPad Console Audio Control
                       ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 7BHT40WW-1.13
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: c4bbe3de6c63c9987e795cac0a1b48bb
CheckboxSystem: bb422ca46d02494cdbc459927a98bc2f
Date: Tue Dec 25 11:04:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: audacity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-26 (242 days ago)

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

Please downgrade the wxwidgets2.8 packages from 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2.2 to 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2. Following command should do the trick:

sudo apt-get install libwxbase2.8-0/precise libwxbase2.8-0/precise

[Jan Heitkötter (jan-heitkoetter)]

Did that, but the menu bar's still gone. Do I have to log off and back
in, or trash Audacity's configuration, or something else?

Merry Christmas!

Am 26.12.2012 17:47, schrieb Benjamin Drung:
> Please downgrade the wxwidgets2.8 packages from 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2.2 to
> 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2. Following command should do the trick:
>
> sudo apt-get install libwxbase2.8-0/precise libwxbase2.8-0/precise
>
> ** Changed in: audacity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

There are probably more binary packages from wxwidgets2.8 that you need to downgrade. Run "dpkg-query --list | grep wx" to show them all.

[Jan Heitkötter (jan-heitkoetter)]

jan@x60s:~$ dpkg-query --list | grep wx
ii libwxbase2.8-0 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2
             wxBase library (runtime) - non-GUI support classes of wxWidgets too
lkit
ii libwxgtk2.8-0 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2.2
             wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ runtime)
jan@x60s:~$ sudo apt-get install libwxgtk2.8-0/precise
[...]

After downgrading libwxgtk2.8-0 to 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2 the menu bar is fine. Thanks! Is this going to be fixed in 12.04 LTS?

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

wxwidgets 2.8.12.1-6ubuntu2.2 was in precise-proposed (but not in precise-updates). It was removed from precise-proposed precisely due to this issue. Therefore the bug is fixed, but needs to be manually installed by people who have precise-proposed enabled via downgrading the package to the precise version again.