Bug#895446: Error in startup script: bad screen distance "4.5"

[Torbjörn Andersson]

Michael Biebl  wrote:

> $ gitk
> Error in startup script: bad screen distance "4.5"

Downgrading fontconfig to 2.12.6-0.1 (from 2.13.0-2) fixes this problem 
for me. I don't know what the implications of that are, though.


Torbjörn Andersson

Bug#895446: Error in startup script: bad screen distance "4.5"

[Michael Biebl]

Package: gitk
Version: 1:2.17.0-1
Severity: grave

gitk no longer successfully starts here. When I run it from a terminal,
I get

$ gitk
Error in startup script: bad screen distance "4.5"
while executing
"$canv conf -scrollregion [list 0 0 $canvxmax $ymax]"
(procedure "setcanvscroll" line 6)
invoked from within
"setcanvscroll"
(procedure "initlayout" line 17)
invoked from within
"initlayout"
(procedure "getcommits" line 4)
invoked from within
"getcommits {}"
(file "/usr/bin/gitk" line 12613)
$ echo $?
1



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), 
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gitk depends on:
ii  git  1:2.17.0-1
ii  tk   8.6.0+9

gitk recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gitk suggests:
pn  git-doc  

-- no debconf information