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Pitivi can't be started

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56288: closed (Pitivi can't be started)
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 16:23:02 +0000

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From: Christian Miller <miller.christian <at> proton.me>
To: "bug-guix <at> gnu.org" <bug-guix <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Pitivi can't be started
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:52:43 +0000

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Running the command pitivi results to the following output:

** (gst-plugin-scanner:21018): CRITICAL **: 19:44:14.963: pygobject initialization failedTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/bin/.pitivi-real", line 172, in <module>

_run_pitivi()
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/bin/.pitivi-real", line 143, in _run_pitivi
from pitivi import application
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/application.py", line 32, in <module>

from pitivi.mainwindow import MainWindow
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/mainwindow.py", line 29, in <module>

from pitivi.editorperspective import EditorPerspective
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/editorperspective.py", line 30, in <module>

from pitivi.dialogs.missingasset import MissingAssetDialog
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/dialogs/missingasset.py", line 24, in <module>

from pitivi.medialibrary import AssetThumbnail
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/medialibrary.py", line 255, in <module>

class AssetThumbnail(GObject.Object, Loggable):
File "/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/lib/pitivi/python/pitivi/medialibrary.py", line 280, in AssetThumbnail
EMBLEMS[status] = GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_file_at_size(
gi.repository.GLib.GError: gdk-pixbuf-error-quark: Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file “/gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0/share/pitivi/pixmaps/asset-proxied.svg” (3)

Package information:

pitivi 0.999.0-2021.05.0 out /gnu/store/qzlwacdsvswq2ahayd3p6iail5n3rpwk-pitivi-0.999.0-2021.05.0

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 56288-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>,
 Christian Miller <miller.christian <at> proton.me>
Subject: Re: bug#56288: Pitivi can't be started
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:21:52 -0400

Hi,

Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz> writes:

> Hello Lily and Christian,
>
> This is unfortunately the usual gdk-pixbuf SVG loader not being found,
> since it is part of librsvg.  Some details are described in [1] already,
> but to summarize:  we need to propagate gdk-pixbuf so that the
> search-path GDK_PIXBUF_MODULE_FILE is properly set for the profile.
>
> Hence, I can reproduce the issue with
>
> guix shell --pure pitivi -- pitivi
>
>
> but the following launches pitivi properly (didn't check further)
>
> guix shell --pure pitivi gdk-pixbuf hicolor-icon-theme adwaita-icon-theme -- pitivi
>
> I think it's very impractical that we have to do this for all packages
> that wish to load SVG files via gdk-pixbuf, because it's technical and
> not a concern that upstream developers document, since they don't
> encounter such behavior.

Agreed; on the other hand it's not much more impractical than having to
propagate manually the icons, albeit harder to discover.  An easy
solution is to propagate librsvg, which I did in 47f0b3ad14.  I've also
updated Pitivi to its latest release in the following commit.

Closing,

Thanks!

Maxim

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