Paraview bugfix-update for 12.04 Precise

[Anton Gladky]

[SRU]
[Impact]

Precise paraview users have two issues:
1- A window gets popped up on start displaying warnings because of the global menus
2- Loading a STL-ascii file causes a segfault

This has been fixed by upstream, and the fixes are in Raring+
This SRU backports two trivial commits to fix the issue in Precise

[Testing]
1- Open paraview, make sure dialog no longer pops up with warnings
2- Open DUMMY.stl file from upstream bug: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=13101
3- Click the "Apply" button. Paraview shouldn't segfault.

[Regression Potential]
One of the patch just ignored some logs, there shouldn't be any possible regression.
The other patch fixes hitting the end of loaded files. A regression should prevent a file from opening correctly.

Original description:

Hi,

there are a couple of annoying bugs in paraview, which ships with
Precise 12.04 (possibly 12.10 is affected as well). It would be good
to have them fixed.

I have prepared a debdiff, which fixes a crash during loading of
STL-ascii files and removes a lot of warning messages during startup (LP: #995949).
Please, consider uploading these changes.

Patch is attached. Binaries can also be reviewed on PPA [1] ( paraview - 3.14.1-2precise1).

Thank you,

Anton

[1] https://launchpad.net/~gladky-anton/+archive/paraview/+packages

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Dong Siwei (dswayb)]

how to use it?

[Guillermo Ortiz (guillepo)]

After trying to use binary paraview 3.98 for precise

 sudo dpkg -i /home/gortiz/Fuentes/DEB/paraview_3.98~rc3-precise1_i386.deb

I obtain 3 error package dependency

(Reading database ... 622801 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace paraview 3.98~rc3-precise1 (using .../paraview_3.98~rc3-precise1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement paraview ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of paraview:
 paraview depends on tcl8.5 | tclsh; however:
  Package tcl8.5 is not installed.
  Package tclsh is not installed.
 paraview depends on libqt4-help (>= 4:4.5.3); however:
  Package libqt4-help is not installed.
dpkg: error processing paraview (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 paraview

Regards

[Guillermo Ortiz (guillepo)]

Somebody knows any progress on paraview for precise pangolin 12.04?

trying to install i get 3 error package dependency

 sudo dpkg -i /home/gortiz/Fuentes/DEB/paraview_3.98~rc3-precise1_i386.deb

I obtain

(Reading database ... 622801 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace paraview 3.98~rc3-precise1 (using .../paraview_3.98~rc3-precise1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement paraview ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of paraview:
 paraview depends on tcl8.5 | tclsh; however:
  Package tcl8.5 is not installed.
  Package tclsh is not installed.
 paraview depends on libqt4-help (>= 4:4.5.3); however:
  Package libqt4-help is not installed.
dpkg: error processing paraview (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 paraview

Regards

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

ACK on the debdiff. It builds and tests fine.
I'm uploading it for processing by the SRU team.

Thanks!

[Dave Walker (davewalker)]

Hello Anton, or anyone else affected,

Accepted paraview into precise-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/paraview/3.14.1-1ubuntu1.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Nate deVelder (ndevelde)]

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and ran into both these bugs. I added the precise-proposed repository, updated paraview, and both these issues have been fixed. I can read STL files and no longer get a huge error list when starting paraview.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package paraview - 3.14.1-1ubuntu1.1

---------------
paraview (3.14.1-1ubuntu1.1) precise; urgency=low

  * Fix crash in STL ascii reader. (LP: #1072053)
  * Skip warning messages on startup. (Closes: LP: #995949)
 -- Anton Gladky <email address hidden> Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:09:08 +0200

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for paraview 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.