Pitivi can't be started

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

Am Dienstag, dem 28.06.2022 um 17:52 +0000 schrieb Christian Miller:

Did you check that the mentioned file is actually an SVG file? You

store might be broken in which case you would need to repair it.

I checked three different versions of pitivi – one rather old one,

current master and one on staging with a bunch of local GStreamer

updates – all three launched successfully.

Cheers

Hello Lily and Christian,

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.

Hence, I can reproduce the issue with

but the following launches pitivi properly (didn't check further)

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.

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=52044#41

(87zgozy59x.fsf@jpoiret.xyz)

HTH,

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Josselin Poiret

Am Donnerstag, dem 30.06.2022 um 14:08 +0200 schrieb Josselin Poiret:

Isn't there a per-package solution to this that basically means adding

librsvg to the package inputs?

Hello Josselin,

thanks for your solution it works.

This is definitely not user friendly and should be fixed. Is it possible to change the subject to something more appropriate?

Best regards

Christian Miller

Hi,

Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> writes:

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.

Closing,

Thanks!

Maxim