Re: ttk error when starting git gui

[David Shrader]

On 03/30/2017 01:54 PM, Peter van der Does wrote:

On 3/30/17 1:01 PM, David Shrader wrote:

Hello,

I get the following error when trying to start git gui:

Error in startup script: wrong # args: should be "ttk::style theme use
theme"
     while executing
"ttk::style theme use"
     (procedure "ttext" line 4)
     invoked from within
"ttext $ui_workdir -background white -foreground black \
         -borderwidth 0 \
         -width 20 -height 10 \
         -wrap none \
         -takefocus 1 -highlightthickness 1\
         ..."
     (file
"/home/dshrader/opt/toss2/common/git/2.12.2/libexec/git-core/git-gui"
line 3190)

I get this error with the latest released version 2.12.2. Two older git
versions are also available on this system, and neither has this issue.
Those older versions are 1.7.1 and 2.3.3. I don't see a call to ttext in
those corresponding git-gui executables, so that is probably why they work.

Here are the steps to reproduce:

1) cd to existing git repository
2) run 'git gui' (no gui comes up, and the error is printed in the
terminal)

I'm running on a RHEL6 based system. Do I have an insufficient version
of whatever git gui uses for graphics in the later versions of git? When
I try 2.12.2 on my personal workstation running Fedora 25, I don't see
the same issue.

Thank you very much for your time,
David

It looks like the git gui needs TCL/TK 8.6.0 or higher. Since that
version the command 'ttk::style theme use' has been changed, which
allows the command to be run without an argument and then returning the
current theme used.
I believe RHEL6 use Tk-8.5.7 but I can't be 100% sure.

Yep, 8.5.7 is what I have on the RHEL6-based system. Thanks for the info!
David

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David Shrader
HPC-ENV High Performance Computer Systems
Los Alamos National Lab
Email: dshrader <at> lanl.gov