Bug 250153 – net-p2p/transmission-1.33 crashes with cairo error

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Märt Bakhoff 2008-12-07 11:20:42 UTC]

Transmission crashes when I try to add a new torrent, right after selecting the torrent. Happens with and without options dialog. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install transmission (USE="gtk libnotify")
2. try to add new torrent

Actual Results:  
mart@artemis ~ $ transmission
transmission: cairo.c:87: _cairo_error: Assertion `(status != CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS && status <= CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_WEIGHT)' failed.
Aborted


Expected Results:  
Torrent gets added / options window opens 

Tried deleting ~/.config/transmission. 
Tried transmission-1.4. 
Tried reinstalling cairo and transmission. 
using cairo-1.8.4  USE="X glitz opengl svg -debug -directfb -doc -xcb"
using global keyword ~amd64

mart@artemis ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.6_rc3 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.28-rc7-git2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.28-rc7-git2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T8100_@_2.10GHz-with-glibc2.2.5
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:00:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p48
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r13, 2.5.2-r8
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0
sys-apps/openrc:     0.3.0-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r3
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.19
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6a
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.27-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="C"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/custom /usr/local/portage/layman/java-overlay"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb cdio cli cracklib crypt cups dbus divx dmx dri dvd encode exif ffmpeg flac fontconfig fuse gd gdbm gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk hal httpd iconv id3tag isdnlog java java6 jpeg jpeg2k laptop ldap libnotify matroska midi mmx motif mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl pmu png posix pppd python qt4 readline reflection session spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs taglib tcpd theora threads tiff tools truetype twolame unicode upnp usb utils vorbis x264 xft xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jürgen Geuter 2008-12-07 14:04:51 UTC]

Same problem here.

I also tried net-p2p/deluge which dies with a similar error (python: cairo.c:87: _cairo_error: Assertion `(status != CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS && status <= CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_WEIGHT)' failed.) so it seems to be something more generic than a transmission bug.

I rebuilt cairo but that didn't help.

[Comment 2 Jürgen Geuter 2008-12-07 14:06:50 UTC]

I also ran a revdep-rebuild but that found no problems either. 

[Comment 3 Märt Bakhoff 2008-12-07 17:39:47 UTC]

Okay, I can confirm this is not a transmission bug. I just noticed that my net-im/pidgin-2.5.2 crashes when i try to send/receive a file. Error is once again: 

mart@artemis ~ $ pidgin 
pidgin: cairo.c:87: _cairo_error: Assertion `(status != CAIRO_STATUS_SUCCESS && status <= CAIRO_STATUS_INVALID_WEIGHT)' failed.
Aborted

[Comment 4 Märt Bakhoff 2008-12-07 17:57:14 UTC]

Same error reported with firefox: Bug 250159

It would seem that the problem is in x11-libs/cairo-1.8.4 
Downgrading to cairo-1.8.2 resolves the problem. 

Marking this bug invalid as it has nothing to do with transmission.