Bug 264641

Summary:	media-gfx/scrot-0.8 doesn't work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	leeight <leeight>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	dabbott, slaninka
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

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...