bug#56288: closed (Pitivi can't be started)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Pitivi can't be started Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:52:43 +0000

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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> Re: bug#56288: Pitivi can't be started
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> Thu, 07 Jul 2022 12:21:52 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:
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> > Hello Lily and Christian,
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> > 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.
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> > Hence, I can reproduce the issue with
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> > guix shell --pure pitivi -- pitivi
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> > but the following launches pitivi properly (didn't check further)
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> > guix shell --pure pitivi gdk-pixbuf hicolor-icon-theme adwaita-icon-theme -- 
> > pitivi
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> Closing,
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> Thanks!
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> Maxim
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