[gupnp-tools] doesn't start without gnome-icon-theme installed, hidden/implicit dependency

[Zorael]

Binary package hint: gupnp-tools

On a Kubuntu 9.04 system where gnome-icon-theme isn't installed per default, gupnp-tools' apps fail with errors output to the terminal.

      $ gupnp-universal-cp

      ** (gupnp-universal-cp:4948): WARNING **: Failed to load icon gtk-missing-image: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme

      ** (gupnp-universal-cp:4948): WARNING **: Failed to load icon gtk-network: Icon 'network-workgroup' not present in theme

      ** (gupnp-universal-cp:4948): WARNING **: Failed to load icon (null): Icon 'audio-x-generic' not present in theme
      **
      ERROR:icons.c:313:init_icons: assertion failed: (icons[i] != NULL)
      Aborted

Installing gnome-icon-theme makes the gupnp tools work, though as a side-effect other GTK programs (like Firefox, Midori) then happily use the now-installed gnome icons instead of inheriting KDE's. To explain, Midori outputs similar errors when gnome-icon-theme isn't installed, but it starts properly and inherits the KDE icons for the icons it complained were not present. For instance, the "new tab" icon (stock_new-tab).

Optimally the tools should start and use KDE's icons when gnome's aren't installed. Installing gnome's breaks icon consistency in other GTK apps, that *did* use KDE's icons before.

KDE icon theme in use was Oxygen from the Jaunty kde-icons-oxygen package in the kubuntu-ppa/experimentals ppa (https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/experimental)

      $ apt-cache policy gupnp-tools
      gupnp-tools:
        Installed: 0.7-0ubuntu1
        Candidate: 0.7-0ubuntu1
        Version table:
       *** 0.7-0ubuntu1 0
              500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
              100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

      $ apt-cache policy kde-icons-oxygen
      kde-icons-oxygen:
        Installed: 4:4.2.85-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2
        Candidate: 4:4.2.85-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2
        Version table:
       *** 4:4.2.85-0ubuntu2~jaunty1~ppa2 0
              500 http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty/main Packages
              100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Mike Pontillo (mpontillo)]

Note, I was working with someone on #ubuntu+1 last night who had the same issue, but had icons installed already. He had to install the "gtk2-engines" package to allow the 'gupnp-universal-cp' application to start.

[jose perez (pp342)]

I'm having the same problem (Kubuntu lucid). gupnp-universal-cp was working fine in karmic.
As Mike Pontillo said, I had to install "gtk2-engines", but if "gnome-control-center" is not installed, the app throws the error. "gnome-control-center" (and its long list of dependencies) was installed when Mike and I were testing. I think there are missing dependencies, but I don't really know what the problem is. Other gnome app's are working fine.

These are the dependencies for "gnome-control-center":
alacarte capplets-data desktop-file-utils evolution-data-server gnome-about gnome-applets gnome-applets-data gnome-control-center gnome-desktop-data gnome-media gnome-media-common gnome-menus gnome-mime-data gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session-bin gnome-settings-daemon gnome-system-monitor gnome-user-guide gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio indicator-applet indicator-application indicator-messages metacity metacity-common mousetweaks python-gmenu python-gnome2 python-gnomeapplet python-gnomecanvas rarian-compat rtkit screen-resolution-extra scrollkeeper ubuntu-system-service zenity nautilus nautilus-data pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-x11 pulseaudio-utils evolution-data-server-common gnome-session indicator-sound
libatspi1.0-0 libbonobo2-0 libbonoboui2-0 libbonoboui2-common libcamel1.2-14 libdevkit-power-gobject1 libebackend1.2-0 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7 libedata-book1.2-2 libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-11 libedataserverui1.2-8 libegroupwise1.2-13 libgdata-google1.2-1 libgdata1.2-1 libgnome-desktop-2-17 libgnome-media0 libgnome-menu2 libgnome-window-settings1 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomekbd-common libgnomekbd4 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgucharmap7 libgweather-common libgweather1 libido-0.1-0 libmetacity-private0 libnautilus-extension1 libpanel-applet2-0 libpulse-browse0 libunique-1.0-0

I purged "gnome-control-center" and then installed only the lib* ones, but this did not help.

[jose perez (pp342)]

problem solved for me:
after searching on google I've found this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/219278
and indeed, the solution found there works:

$ LANG=en_US.utf8 gupnp-universal-cp
** (gupnp-universal-cp:11652): WARNING **: Failed to load icon gtk-missing-image: Icon 'image-missing' not present in theme
** (gupnp-universal-cp:11652): WARNING **: Failed to load icon gtk-network: Icon 'network-workgroup' not present in theme
** (gupnp-universal-cp:11652): WARNING **: Failed to load icon (null): Icon 'audio-x-generic' not present in theme
**
ERROR:icons.c:317:init_icons: assertion failed: (icons[i] != NULL)

$ cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
include "/usr/share/themes/QtCurve/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
$ mv ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4_
$ echo -e "gtk-icon-theme-name=\"gnome\"" >>~/.gtkrc-2.0
$ LANG=en_US.utf8 gupnp-universal-cp # <- program runs!

so it's a problem with the themes...

[Andreas Henriksson (andreas-fatal)]

Fixed (in 0.7.1-1, see http://bugs.debian.org/518920 )

[Adam Reeve (adreeve)]

I've come across the same bug again in Ubuntu 12.04, and fixed the issue by installing the "gnome-icon-theme-full" package. Do I need to create a new Launchpad bug for this one? Or should I report it to Debian?

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

Hi Adam,

Could you please check if the same thing happens in Debian? If so, please open a bug report in Debian too.

thanks,
Fabrice

[Gunni (fgunni)]

Bug is still present in (K)Ubuntu 15.04. Installing gnome-icon-theme-full still helps