Bug 140508 – media-tv/nxtvepg-2.7.5: failed to initialize the tk library

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel 2006-07-15 08:44:30 UTC]

when i execute nxtevpg I get:
"""failed to initialise the tk library at '/usr/lib/tk8.4' - exiting. tk error message: this isnt a tk applicationunknown color name "black""""

(and it just does not start...)

[Comment 1 Daniel 2006-07-15 09:03:31 UTC]

I forgot,
my system is a x86 and everything is up to date!

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-07-15 09:22:04 UTC]

Please, don't mangle ebuild names in bug reports, damn hard to find such obscure thing. It would also help to post exact errors and not stick a bunch of typos there.

Anyway, remove RgbPath from your xorg.conf and try again. It is fails, post the exact error, exact ebuild version, emerge --info and reopen then.

[Comment 3 Daniel 2006-07-15 09:54:09 UTC]

Hi,
thanks for the fast help!!
I don't have an RgbPath in my xorg.conf.

the info requested:

mythbox ~ # emerge -pv nxtvepg
[ebuild   R   ] media-tv/nxtvepg-2.7.5  0 kB


mythbox ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r4, 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r12 i686 VIA Esther processor 1500MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.15
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r1
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.3
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LC_ALL="de_DE.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt cups dbus dlloader dri eds emboss encode esd fam foomaticdb fortran ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mikmod motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl oss pam pam-mysql pcre pdflib perl php png pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sasl sdl session spell spl sqlite ssl ssltcltk tcl tcpd tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis wifi xml xmms xorg xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Thanks again for the help and your patience,

Daniel

ps.
beside me consequetially writing lowercase i dont see so many typos.
the error message was (nearly) correct:
"""
failed to initialise the tk library at '/usr/lib/tk8.4' - exiting.
tk error message: this isn't a tk applicationunknown color name "black"
"""

[Comment 4 Daniel 2006-07-18 01:56:49 UTC]

same with the newest version of nxtvepg (2.7.6). If using the newest version of tk/tcl (8.4.13) the bug disappears but the window which appears does not have _any_ content...
so this seems to be related to tk/tcl...
whats wrong there?

[Comment 5 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2006-09-07 00:28:49 UTC]

Everything looks fine here using tk 8.4.9 and nxtvepg 2.7.6 - indeed, must be something messy on your system. I have no idea what's going wrong there.

[Comment 6 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2006-11-21 01:31:09 UTC]

Sorry, still no idea.