# git-gui fails to start

3 messages from 2008-06-27 to 2008-07-04. Participants: Michael P. Soulier, Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/14175

## Michael P. Soulier, 2008-06-27 00:23

Subject: git-gui fails to start
Message-ID: <20080627002307.GE2620@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080627002307.GE2620%40tigger.digitaltorque.ca

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Hi,

I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built from source. 

When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run
git-gui. No error messages, nothing. 

If I set GITGUI_VERBOSE, I get this

auto_load tk_optionMenu
source    /usr/share/tk8.4/optMenu.tcl
auto_load tk::MenuDup
source    /usr/share/tk8.4/tearoff.tcl
auto_load ::status_bar::new
source    /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/status_bar.tcl
auto_load class
source    /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/class.tcl
auto_load load_all_remotes
source    /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/remote.tcl
auto_load spellcheck::init
source    /home/msoulier/git/share/git-gui/lib/spellcheck.tcl

and then it just sits there. 

I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9. 

How would I troubleshoot this? 

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-07-02 04:53

Subject: Re: git-gui fails to start
Message-ID: <20080702045352.GM11793@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080702045352.GM11793%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <20080627002307.GE2620@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>

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"Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca> wrote:
> 
> I'm on a CentOS Linux box, tracking 4.6 with Git 1.5.5.4 built
> from source.
>
> When I run gitk on a repository it works fine, but nothing happens when I run
> git-gui. No error messages, nothing. 
...
> and then it just sits there. 
> 
> I have Tcl/Tk 8.4.9. 

I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with
Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0.  Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I
would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

The issue was aspell earlier than 0.60 caused git-gui to deadlock
because it didn't understand "$$cr master", which git-gui sends
on startup when it launches the background spell checker.

You can also work around the issue by disabling the spell checker:

	git config --global gui.spellingdictionary none

-- 
Shawn.

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## Michael P. Soulier, 2008-07-04 18:56

Subject: Re: git-gui fails to start
Message-ID: <20080704185610.GT28001@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080704185610.GT28001%40tigger.digitaltorque.ca
In-Reply-To: <20080702045352.GM11793@spearce.org>

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On 02/07/08 Shawn O. Pearce said:

> I think this was fixed in gitgui-0.10.2, which did not ship with
> Git proper until 1.5.6-rc0.  Now that 1.5.6.1 has been released I
> would encourage you to upgrade to the latest stable release of Git.

I'll try that, thanks. 

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It
takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
direction." --Albert Einstein

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