Bug report #16956
Menus are inactive on startup
| Status: | Closed | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Actions | ||
| Affected QGIS version: | 2.14.11 | Regression?: | No |
| Operating System: | Ubuntu 16.04 | Easy fix?: | No |
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | end of life |
| Crashes QGIS or corrupts data: | No | Copied to github as #: | 24855 |
Description
Installed QGIS from Ubuntu repository using sudo apt-get install qgis
App starts by giving warnings...
Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_GB]
Warning: loading of qt translation failed [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_GB]
Warning: QGraphicsScene::addItem: item has already been added to this scene
QGIS window opens OK, but menu items (Project, Edit, etc.) do not drop down - neither with mouse click nor with Alt-E etc.
Clicking on tool buttons works OK.
History
#1
Updated by Chris Haynes over 7 years ago
Update:
On single click on menu item, it gets a white background. In this state the tool tips on the tool buttons no longer show.
A second click on a menu item (or pressing the Esc key) removes the white background and re-enables the tool tips on the tool buttons.
Looks like the drop-down menu item lists are modal and simply not showing.
#2
Updated by Chris Haynes over 7 years ago
Update 2:
Uninstalled + purged 2.8.6 and associated packages.
Added following to sources.list:
deb http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
deb-src http://qgis.org/ubuntugis xenial main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main
Installed 2.14.11 using sudo apt-get install qgis python-qgis
Now get more warnings:
Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_GB]
Warning: loading of qt translation failed [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_GB]
Warning: QCss::Parser - Failed to load file "/style.qss"
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
Warning: QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/admin/.qgis2//project_templates
Warning: QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_wvDetails_linkClicked(QUrl)
and exactly same lack of menus bug.
#3
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
and exactly same lack of menus bug.
seems very much a local issue. Many of us work on Ubuntu and this seems the first report of such thing, if I recall correctly.
#4
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 7 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
- Affected QGIS version changed from 2.8.6 to 2.14.11
#5
Updated by Chris Haynes over 7 years ago
I'm wondering if I have problems with python versions clashing.
Does QGIS use / depend on python to display menus?
#6
Updated by Chris Haynes over 7 years ago
I just tried opening an existing project on a different server (accessed via SFTP and built using QGIS Essen on Windows).
I got the following error message - does it help?
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An error occurred during execution of following code:
sys.path.append(u'/run/user/1001/gvfs/sftp:host=john,user=admin/Haynes/Harvington Neighbourhood Plan/GIS/Land Use Policy')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
KeyboardInterrupt
Python version:
2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609]
QGIS version:
2.14.11-Essen 'Essen', exported
Python path:
['/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/processing', '/usr/share/qgis/python', u'/home/admin/.qgis2/python', u'/home/admin/.qgis2/python/plugins', '/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins', '/usr/lib/python2.7', '/usr/lib/python2.7/plat-x86_64-linux-gnu', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-tk', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-old', '/usr/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/PILcompat', '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gtk-2.0', u'/home/admin/.qgis2//python', '/usr/share/qgis/python/plugins/fTools/tools']
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I then have a displayed map, with a (correct) warning that it was saved by an older version of QGIS.
#7
Updated by Giovanni Manghi about 7 years ago
- Status changed from Feedback to Open
#8
Updated by Karl Kastner almost 7 years ago
I can confirm this bug on Ubuntu 17.10 artful. It persists at least for a year and is really annoying. As infrequent user I feel like an illiterate monkey trying one icon after the other to find the tool I want.
Qquis tries to load /usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US, however this folder does not exist in the unbuntu package:
Starting program: /usr/bin/qgis.bin
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1".
Warning: loading of qgis translation failed [/usr/share/qgis/i18n//qgis_en_US]
Warning: loading of qt translation failed [/usr/share/qt4/translations/qt_en_US]
dpkg -S /usr/share/qgis/i18n/
qgis-common: /usr/share/qgis/i18n
dpkg -L qgis-common | grep i18n
/usr/share/qgis/i18n
/usr/share/qgis/i18n/qgis_ar.qm
...
/usr/share/qgis/i18n/qgis_zh-Hant.qm
#9
Updated by Karl Kastner almost 7 years ago
Workaround: Settings -> Options -> Application -> Style -> change Plastique into GTK+
So this seems to be two rather than one bug, one that causes the locale fail to load and default to C and one that causes the hover-menu not to be displayed correctly.
#10
Updated by Giovanni Manghi over 5 years ago
- Resolution set to end of life
- Status changed from Open to Closed
End of life notice: QGIS 2.18 LTR
Source:
http://blog.qgis.org/2019/03/09/end-of-life-notice-qgis-2-18-ltr/
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