bug#52089: [core-updates-frozen] geeqie fails to launch

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi John,

John Kehayias <john.kehayias@protonmail.com> skribis:

> I had reported this on IRC earlier and think I've found the fix. The upstream 
> issue is https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/issues/829  and leads to 
> the following commit that should fix it 
> https://github.com/BestImageViewer/geeqie/commit/f34ea0700048c27319a2256408171adda32a7580
>
> I'm attaching this commit as a patch for our current version (just 
> cherry-picked this commit) to try. I tried it with the following command
>
> guix shell geeqie 
> --with-patch=geeqie=0001-Fix-829-segfault-with-clutter-gtk.patch
>
> And it started up for me without the error or changing options. I'm not sure 
> if this is related to some other issues that we discussed on IRC (a segfault 
> on icon view?), but at least this fixes the startup problem. Since this is 
> fixed upstream, on the next version update we should be able to remove this 
> patch.

I can confirm that the patch fixes the issue for me.

I’ve added it to the ‘geeqie’ package, thank you!

Ludo’.