Hi, On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 05:04:09PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > Package: avogadro > Version: 1.2.0-1+b1 > Severity: serious > Justification: package is useless > > Dear Maintainer, > > Avogadro in stretch appears to be unable to display any molecules. It only > displays the background colour fill. Picking any molecule should be enough > to reproduce this: > > $ avogadro /usr/share/avogadro/fragments/alkanes/hexane.cml > > or > > $ avogadro > > File → Import → Fetch by chemical name → hexane > > The debug view shows that avogadro has imported the right number of atoms > and bonds, but nothing is displayed no matter what settings are chosen for > the viewer. > > (checked across 3 computers including one on which avogadro had never been > installed before just in case it was a local config problem. Old discussions > on the avogadro development lists around such problems frequently implicate > compositing, but I this under Xvfb and various WMs and is, in any case, a > regression since jessie.)
This has also been filed in Ubuntu and upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avogadro/+bug/1640171 https://sourceforge.net/p/avogadro/bugs/783/ It seems to be an issue with out eigen3 patch, there's since been a different commit upstream, and Khanh-Dang Nguyen Thu Lam confirmed this: 22:39 <zooe> compilation just done 22:39 <zooe> it works :) 22:40 <zooe> i did: "apt-get source avogadro", replaced debian/patches/eigen3.patch by 43af3c117b0b3220b15c2fe2895b94bbd83d3a60, then compiled it https://github.com/cryos/avogadro/commit/43af3c117b0b3220b15c2fe2895b94bbd83d3a60 is the relevant changeset. Michael