On 01.10.13 11:34 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 10:44:42 +0200 > Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.deche...@linaro.org> wrote: [...] > > 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....
+1, thanks Nicolas! The magic formula is: $ wget http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20130927T214600Z/pool/main/c/cairo/libcairo2_1.12.14-4_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i libcairo2_1.12.14-4_amd64.deb -- Best Regards, Serge Broslavsky <serge.broslav...@linaro.org> Project Manager, Linaro M: +37129426328 IRC: ototo Skype: serge.broslavsky http://linaro.org | Open source software for ARM SoCs _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
