Bug 264641 – media-gfx/scrot-0.8 doesn't work

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description leeight 2009-04-02 15:34:14 UTC]

$ scrot
giblib error: Saving to file 2009-04-02-232634_1280x800_scrot.png failed



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a terminal
2. run the command `scrot`
3. got error message, and can't save the screenshot

[Comment 1 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-04-02 22:12:37 UTC]

Please post your "emerge --info".

As your posted error message indicates, this seems to be a problem with the media-libs/giblib package. Can you please recompile this package and report if this fixes your problem?

[Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) 2009-04-04 12:42:13 UTC]

Reopen this bug if re-emerging media-libs/giblib doesn't fix your problem.

[Comment 3 Daniel Noulet 2009-05-21 09:37:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> $ scrot
> giblib error: Saving to file 2009-04-02-232634_1280x800_scrot.png failed
> 
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. open a terminal
> 2. run the command `scrot`
> 3. got error message, and can't save the screenshot
> 

re-emerge imlib and imlib2 (USE jpeg gif png tiff)

[Comment 4 Gabriel Maculus 2009-11-16 03:33:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > $ scrot
> > giblib error: Saving to file 2009-04-02-232634_1280x800_scrot.png failed
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Reproducible: Always
> > 
> > Steps to Reproduce:
> > 1. open a terminal
> > 2. run the command `scrot`
> > 3. got error message, and can't save the screenshot
> > 
> 
> re-emerge imlib and imlib2 (USE jpeg gif png tiff)
> 
USE=png emerge imlib2

and scrot is working...