On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:44:42 +0200 Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote:
> hi, > > first of all, this isn't meant to be a distro trolling discussion, > there are better places for that ;-) > > several days ago google HO started to fail after updating my > debian/sid setup. as discussed on G+ [1] and on googlegroups [2], > that seemed to be impacting anyone on debian/sid. when i realized > that it was working on debian/testing (Jessie) i decided just use > 'testing'... however since last evening update on 'testing', it > started to fail too.. leaving me without any working HO at all, which > is quite inconvenient at Linaro.. > > after bisecting my system using snapshot.debian.org, i figured out > which package was the culprit: > > # apt-cache policy libcairo2 > libcairo2: > Installed: 1.12.14-4 > Candidate: 1.12.14-4 > Package pin: 1.12.14-4 Interestingly 1.12.14-5 is *not* a sufficient downgrade, it needs to be 14-4, so it's not the new upstream 1.12.16 which has broken this support. > Simply downgrading libcairo2 [3] 'fixes' the problem. I know it's not > 'fixing' it really, but i hope that this will be enough information > so that the real fix is uploaded. > > In the mean time, if any of use use Debian , you can use that as a > workaround.. I'm assuming that this is a "proprietary-blob-linked-to-the-wrong-version" bug, but I've had google-talkplugin force an upgrade on me since this started and that didn't fix it. google-talkplugin 4.6.3.0-1 However, with libcairo2 1.12.14-4, hangouts now work. Thanks for this investigation. I'll have to see how long the rest of the desktop continues running with an old version of such a critical library.... The change in libcairo2 at 14-5 was: Add gl/egl support back now that wayland has been multi-archified. http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs/main/c/cairo/unstable_changelog The change was made to fix: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712022 -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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