Anki hangs at startup and disrupts Unity

[Holger Knust]

1) lsb_relase info:
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

2) Package info:
anki:
  Installed: 1.2.8-1
  Candidate: 1.2.8-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.8-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) Anki main menu is expected to show once the splash screen is showing 100%

4) The main menu of Anki never shows. The whole desktop UI become unresponsive. I had to manually kill the process.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: anki 1.2.8-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-9.15-generic 3.0.3
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 6 18:22:15 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110804)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: anki
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-08-27 (10 days ago)

[Rodney Lorrimar (rodney-rodney)]

I think I have the same problem with oneiric. Except when this happens to me it brings down my computer and I have to reboot (see bug #843265).

If you run anki from the terminal, do you see this message?

QWidget::setMinimumSize: (MainWindow/AnkiQt) The largest allowed size is (16777215,16777215)

For me anki works fine under metacity but not unity or gnome-shell. It used to work in natty (but with a 1.2.8 deb downloaded from the anki website).

[Rodney Lorrimar (rodney-rodney)]

Oh and I tried commenting out all calls to setMinimumSize or setMaximumSize in anki.

dpkg -L anki | grep '\.py' | xargs sed -i.bak -e 's/\(^.*setM[ai][xn]imumSize\)/#\1/'

But it still had the same problem.

[Holger Knust (hknust)]

I did not see the minimum size message you described, but I am getting an assertion failure message repeatedly

(python:3175): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA___gtk_widget_style_get: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

and then it hangs.

[Rodney Lorrimar (rodney-rodney)]

I get the gtk_widget_style_get() GTK_IS_WIDGET(widget) assertions as well as the QWidget::setMinimumSize() error. Perhaps we have separate problems then, I don't know.

[Holger Knust (hknust)]

No, I think they are related. I copied standard err/out to a file (see attached) and I see the same messages you were reporting.

[rnsmith2 (rnsmith2)]

This appears to be a bug related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/805303

Work around:

1.) install package qt4-qtconfig

2.) using qtconfig change GUI style to something other than default or GTK+ (recommended: oxygen or motif)

3.) start Anki

[Holger Knust (hknust)]

I tried the work around suggested by rnsmith2 and it did not work. The Anki GUI does not show and disrupts all other running programs.

[Rodney Lorrimar (rodney-rodney)]

Thanks Ryan, works for me.