transgui instantly crashes on start

[Justin Seton Browne]

TransGui crashes as soon as it starts.

I can replicate this on two separate systems, running two different versions of Ubuntu 15.10. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 running Lxubuntu & another running Ubuntu-mate 15.10. Ubuntu-mate was a fresh image of 15.10 & transgui was the first program that I installed, whilst Lxubuntu was recently upgraded from 15.04 to 15.10. Under 15.04 on Lxubuntu, transgui ran perfectly, but as soon as I tried to run it after the upgrade, it crashes. If I try to run it from a terminal, it loops over the following line:

(transgui:2367): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_widget_realize: assertion 'GTK_WIDGET_ANCHORED (widget) || GTK_IS_INVISIBLE (widget)' failed

If I try to run it under Ubuntu-mate 15.10, I get an identical error.

Lxubuntu results for the commands below:

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

# apt-cache policy transgui
transgui:
  Installed: 5.0.1-2
  Candidate: 5.0.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.1-2 0
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ wily/universe armhf Packages
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ wily/universe armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: transgui 5.0.1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.18.0-25.26-rpi2 3.18.17
Uname: Linux 3.18.0-25-rpi2 armv7l
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu4
Architecture: armhf
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Sun Nov 8 09:22:26 2015
SourcePackage: transgui
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Danilo Schembri (danilo-schembri)]

Hi,

Same thing on Kubuntu 15.10, but sometimes it works. I don't realize on when it crashes/works and why.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.10
Release: 15.10

$ apt-cache policy transgui
transgui:
  Installed: 5.0.1-2
  Candidate: 5.0.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 5.0.1-2 0
        500 http://it.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Uname: Linux 4.2.0-18-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 6 18:25:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
CurrentDesktop: KDE

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[inoremap (inoremap)]

TransGui hangs when trying to show tray icon at line https://sources.debian.net/src/transgui/5.0.1-3/main.pas/#L2397

Since when launching in Unity tray icon is not displayed, TransGui can run with the command

XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=unity transgui

[penshuu (penshuu)]

I can confirm this on Ubuntu 16.04 running GNOME Shell, the fix from #4 works though.

[Andreas Noteng (andreas-noteng)]

15.10 is EOL, closing.
A new version based on a still active fork of transgui should sync to active development soon.
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1062194/accepted-transgui-5170dfsg-1-source-into-unstable/