Re: Git GUI does not start

From: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Date: Aug 11, 2021, 22:03 UTC
Message-ID: <YRRJMexgc3TTTN2X@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <trinity-1ab86a7f-c1b8-4934-9b31-861a78e15889-1628689643260@3c-app-webde-bap05>

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 03:47:23PM +0200, Gerhard Buch wrote:

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> Hi,
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> Git GUI does not start any more and I'd like to share the bugreport below. Any idea how I can get diagnostic information to find die problem?
> 
> best regards
> 
> Gerhard

FWIW, we also received a user report that this is happening on MacOS, looks like also related to something wrong with this Wish dependency:

""" Getting the following error when running git gui command on terminal.

$ git gui

/usr/local/git/git-388133509.245/libexec/git-core/git-gui: line 8: /usr/local/git/git-388133509.245/share/git-gui/lib/Git Gui.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish: No such file or directory /usr/local/git/git-388133509.245/libexec/git-core/git-gui: line 8: exec: /usr/local/git/git-388133509.245/share/git-gui/lib/Git Gui.app/Contents/MacOS/Wish: cannot execute: No such file or directory """

Seems like we had this problem with our MacOS release some years ago too, but I don't see much useful info on that years-old report about how we fixed it last time...

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> What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)
> Open Git GUI -> choose open existing projekt
> It worked with the previsous version 2.28 before. Before posting the bugreport I updated to the most recent version to be at the latest version.
> 
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> That Git GUI opens...
> 
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> Git GUI icon appears in task bar, but not the usual Git GUI window.
> On left click on the task bar icon, the top entry says Wish Application. On choosing this entry two Windows appear.
> One is empty. The second is titled "Konsole" and has (System32) 1% in the field below the menu bar.
> What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?
> Git Gui does not start and there is no indication on possible reasons for this.
> 
> Anything else you want to add:
> I've checked the project directory with git cmd:
> git status:
> On branch <branch name>
> nothing to commit, working tree clean
> 
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> [System Info]
> git version:
> git version 2.32.0.windows.2
> cpu: x86_64
> built from commit: 3d45ac813c4adf97fe3733c1f763ab6617d5add5
> sizeof-long: 4
> sizeof-size_t: 8
> shell-path: /bin/sh
> feature: fsmonitor--daemon
> uname: Windows 10.0 17763
> compiler info: gnuc: 10.3
> libc info: no libc information available
> $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): <unset>
> [Enabled Hooks]
>

As for the 'git-bugreport' contents here, I wonder if we should be including diagnostic infos about git-gui. I'm not very familiar with git-gui so I'm not sure what would be useful, though...

 - Emily