[Karmic] "phoronix-test-suite gui" doesn't work

[Loïc Martin]

Binary package hint: phoronix-test-suite

When launching the phoronix-test-suite with a GUI (from a terminal: "phoronix-test-suite gui"), the following error appears:

Fatal error: Class 'GtkWindow' not found in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/objects/gtk/pts_gtk_window.php on line 23

It might be a missing dependency, or the packaging has forgotten to build the GUI.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Michael confirms that phoronix-test-suite GUI needs php-gtk to work, which isn't packaged for Ubuntu yet.

It looks to me like this package used to exist in Debian, but has since been removed:
 * http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/php-gtk.html

:-Dustin

[Kip Warner (kip)]

I can confirm the same observation under amd64 Karmic. The package should suggest installation of php5-gtk. Even though that package isn't found in the universe/multiverse right now, at least the user will have a better chance of knowing why the GUI doesn't work.

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

This bug is still present in Lucid, perhaps since it is still in development now would be a good time to look at adding the required package to the repositories?

[Kip Warner (kip)]

I agree.

[michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel)]

It's http://gtk.php.net/ that needs to be packaged up. It's not too bad to package but there hasn't been a new release in two years so you'd probably be best off using a CVS snapshot.

For those users in the mean time I do have a 64-bit Debian package at http://phoronix-test-suite.com/misc/php5-gtk2_2.0.1-0_amd64.deb (also need to add extension=php_gtk2.so to your php.ini file afterwards), but I received a report that due to Lucid's recent PHP5.3 upgrade that it's no longer compatible with that binary module.

MIchael

[bbordwell (benbordwell)]

I would have to disagree about it being easy to package (for a normal user) because of bug 430946.

I tried downloading a pre-made .deb and it did not work, most likely due to what you said abut lucid's changes to php.

Oh well the CLI is easy enough.

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Tested again in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, same problem:

$ phoronix-test-suite gui
PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant IS_NVIDIA_LINUX - assumed 'IS_NVIDIA_LINUX' in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/objects/phodevi/components/phodevi_system.php on line 1052
PHP Fatal error: Class 'GtkWindow' not found in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/objects/gtk/pts_gtk_window.php on line 24

There's a needs-packaging bug here:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/debian/+bug/260235

@michaellarabel perhaps you'd be able to contribute upstream ?:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473396

[michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel)]

I will be offering up a independent php5-gtk Ubuntu/Debian package that's compatible with Lucid's PHP5 installation soon in the Phoronix-Test-Suite.com Debian repository.

[Karmo Rosental (karmux)]

I have never been able to use Phoronix Test Suite in Ubuntu. In every version had been different fatal errors.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Phoronix 2.4 & 2.6:

PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/imagick.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error: Class 'GtkWindow' not found in /usr/share/phoronix-test-suite/pts-core/objects/gtk/pts_gtk_window.php on line 24

[michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel)]

@Karmo: Yes, unfortunately PHP5-GTK still is not available in Ubuntu's package repositories.

If you are running 32-bit Lucid though, I have a package for PHP5-GTK at http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/misc/php5-gtk-2.0.1~2010-05-11_i386.deb but I haven't gotten around to spinning a x86_64 version yet.

[Dylan Coakley (dylan-coakley)]

This problem also affects me... its really annoying. I successfully ran the suite with the GUI only once. Any version now fails to run the GUI even after installing the php5-gtk and adding to php.ini.

Please make a 64bit version of php5-gtk that works with PTS!

[michaellarabel (michael-michaellarabel)]

Dylan, see: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODQ4Mw