Debian Bug report logs - #979139
/usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2021 13:30:16 +0000

Package: linphone-nogtk
Severity: normal
File: /usr/bin/linphonec

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?

I did an upgrade and lost a excellent working linphone installation :-(

I realise that this is probably an upstream problem, but removing an
excellent working linphone and replacing it with a barely documented
substitute which appears to only have 5% of the old functionality
without warning is really poor.

Removing the GUI completely is pretty dire. I am very comfortable with
the cli, but it is completely unclear how it is intended to be used.

To be a bit more specific:

1) Starting linphonec gives a series of error messages:

belle-sip-error-Cannot connect to [UDP://sipgate.co.uk:5060]
2021-01-03 13:10:21:607 belle-sip-error-belle_sip_get_src_addr_for: bctbx_connect() failed: Network is unreachable
[..snip 5 repeats ]

These do not seem to prevent outgoing calls, so perhaps as just
informative, although it is unclear what is happening.

2) There seems to be no acccess to ~/.linphone-friends.db

linphonec> friend list

gives no results. Checking ~./linphone-friends.db with
sqlite3 ~/.linphone-friends.db
shows that all the contacts are still there.

How is linphonec usable without access to the "directory".

3) How is linphonec supposed to answer calls? Yes there is an "answer"
command, but is a copy of linphonec supposed to be running
perhaps in a terminal to accept calls?

From the linphonecsh man page and inspection with htop, it seems
that linphonec has an undocumented --pipe option, which presumably
is the answer to the question above. It is unclear how an incoming call
is  signalled.

I am sorry to be so negative, and perhaps need to do more reading, but
such a sudden downgrade without warning is upsetting.
Thank you for all the working in maintaining the package.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Message #10 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

To: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 14:21:24 +0100

Am 03.01.21 um 14:30 schrieb ael via Pkg-voip-maintainers:

Hi,

> I realise that this is probably an upstream problem, but removing an
> excellent working linphone and replacing it with a barely documented
> substitute which appears to only have 5% of the old functionality
> without warning is really poor.
> 
> Removing the GUI completely is pretty dire. I am very comfortable with
> the cli, but it is completely unclear how it is intended to be used.

The old GTK client (that used to be packaged in the linphone package) is
gone upstream and will not come back.

However, linphonec is not the successor. The successor is a Qt based GUI
client which unfortunately will only migrate to testing in a few days.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linphone-desktop

Please try this one instead. It is still a very different beast than the
Gtk client, but I hope it will be more usable as a SIP client than
linphonec.

Bernhard

Message #15 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 13:38:15 +0000

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 02:21:24PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:

> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linphone-desktop
> 
> Please try this one instead. It is still a very different beast than the
> Gtk client, but I hope it will be more usable as a SIP client than
> linphonec.

OK. I will try that. Thanks.

Message #20 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 16:32:14 +0000

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

> gone upstream and will not come back.
> 
> However, linphonec is not the successor. The successor is a Qt based GUI
> client which unfortunately will only migrate to testing in a few days.
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linphone-desktop
> 
> Please try this one instead. It is still a very different beast than the
> Gtk client, but I hope it will be more usable as a SIP client than
> linphonec.

I have installed linphone-desktop from the unstable distribution.
As you say, very different!

It has read the linphone_friend.db which is good.

However there is something amiss with the redering of icons.
Screenshot attached (I have cut out some contact details to protect
privacy). Perhaps a missing dependency?

I may report more when I have collected information.

[linphone.png (image/png, attachment)]

Message #25 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

To: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:47:38 +0100

Am 04.01.21 um 17:32 schrieb ael via Pkg-voip-maintainers:

Hi,

>> gone upstream and will not come back.
>>
>> However, linphonec is not the successor. The successor is a Qt based GUI
>> client which unfortunately will only migrate to testing in a few days.
>>
>> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/linphone-desktop
>>
>> Please try this one instead. It is still a very different beast than the
>> Gtk client, but I hope it will be more usable as a SIP client than
>> linphonec.
> 
> I have installed linphone-desktop from the unstable distribution.
> As you say, very different!
> 
> It has read the linphone_friend.db which is good.
> 
> However there is something amiss with the redering of icons.
> Screenshot attached (I have cut out some contact details to protect
> privacy). Perhaps a missing dependency?

Quite possible, but I'm a bit unsure which one. It works fine for me.

Are you using the KDE Plasma desktop or something else? Maybe it is a
KDE icon theme that is missing. I can have a look in the next couple of
days. If you want to beat me to it, you could check with strace for
unsuccessful file accesses.

Bernhard

Message #30 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:02:58 +0000

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Am 04.01.21 um 17:32 schrieb ael via Pkg-voip-maintainers:
> 
> > 
> > However there is something amiss with the redering of icons.
> > Screenshot attached (I have cut out some contact details to protect
> > privacy). Perhaps a missing dependency?
> 
> Quite possible, but I'm a bit unsure which one. It works fine for me.
> 
> Are you using the KDE Plasma desktop or something else? 

xfce4. 

> days. If you want to beat me to it, you could check with strace for
> unsuccessful file accesses.

I was looking for some debug switches, but the only thing was -V
which produced very little, and nothing of interest.

I will have a look with strace, but I am usually overwhelmed with
the huge volume irrelevant data :-)

I suppose that I could install the -dbgsym package and try with
gdb, but I suspect I won't know where to look.

I did look to see whether I could see a plasma-theme package that I
could install as a test, but that wanted to pull in too much other stuff
:-(

Message #35 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

To: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

Cc: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 19:40:35 +0100

Control: clone 979139 -1
Control: reassign -1 src:linphone-desktop 4.2.5-3
Control: retitle -1 linphone-desktop: Icons not shown

Hi,

Am 04.01.21 um 18:02 schrieb ael:
> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 05:47:38PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
>> Am 04.01.21 um 17:32 schrieb ael via Pkg-voip-maintainers:
>>
>>>
>>> However there is something amiss with the redering of icons.
>>> Screenshot attached (I have cut out some contact details to protect
>>> privacy). Perhaps a missing dependency?
>>
>> Quite possible, but I'm a bit unsure which one. It works fine for me.
>>
>> Are you using the KDE Plasma desktop or something else? 
> 
> xfce4. 
> 
>> days. If you want to beat me to it, you could check with strace for
>> unsuccessful file accesses.
> 
> I was looking for some debug switches, but the only thing was -V
> which produced very little, and nothing of interest.
> 
> I will have a look with strace, but I am usually overwhelmed with
> the huge volume irrelevant data :-)
> 
> I suppose that I could install the -dbgsym package and try with
> gdb, but I suspect I won't know where to look.

No, that won't help.

strace -ff linphone > linphone.log 2>&1

and then have a look at linphone.log

I have spun up a Testing VM with XFCE4 and my linphone-desktop works
fine. I have no idea what might be missing in your case. Maybe someone
else will have an idea. I'm going to clone this bug to linphone-desktop.

Bernhard

Message #42 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: /usr/bin/linphonec: Missing documentation: access to linphone-friends.db.

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:01:29 +0000

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On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 07:40:35PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 
> strace -ff linphone > linphone.log 2>&1
> 
> and then have a look at linphone.log

I have just done a quick test:

cat linphone.log |grep open |grep -B 1 "= -1" >linphone_filtered.log

looking for failures on opening files.

I do see things like 

libqtquick2plugin.so 
libwindowplugin.so
libwindowplugin.so.avx2
libwidgetsplugin.so
libmodelsplugin.so.avx2
/usr/share/pixmaps/cursors/left_ptr
/usr/share/icons/index.theme
/usr/share/pixmaps/default/cursors/left_ptr

as missing, but I am not (yet) sure whether any of these are just
probes or required.

Anyway, I will attach  linphone.log.gz and linphone_filtered.log.gz in
case you can spot anything quickly. Meanwhile I will examine and experiment a
little more.

[linphone.log.gz (application/gzip, attachment)]

[linphone_filtered.log.gz (application/gzip, attachment)]

Message #47 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Missing icons in linphone-desktop XFCE

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 20:44:38 +0000

I have done a quick check on linphone_filtered.log
and as far as I can see I have packages installed which provide all
of the files and libraries except those ending so.avx2.
That is surprising because I am runing on a Haswell processor and have
libmkl-avx2, libmkl-vml-avx2 and all the other lib*avx* packages 
installed.

But none of them seem obviously connected with the black rectabgles
replacing all the icons.

So probably I  have filtered out the relevant parts of linphone.log.
I will try to look there maybe tomorrow.

Message #52 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: linphone-desktop: Icons not shown

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:16:49 +0000

When I run linphone

QSGTextureAtlas: texture atlas allocation failed, code=501

is one of the messages sent to stdout. Not sure whether this is relevant
as yet.

A quick search gave a few hits like
https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/12/04/kde-icons-disappearing-unstable/
which also mentions disappearing icons, so perhaps promising.

Message #57 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

To: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

Cc: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: linphone-desktop: Icons not shown

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 22:23:14 +0100

Am 04.01.21 um 22:16 schrieb ael:

Hi,


> When I run linphone
> 
> QSGTextureAtlas: texture atlas allocation failed, code=501
> 
> is one of the messages sent to stdout. Not sure whether this is relevant
> as yet.
> 
> A quick search gave a few hits like
> https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/12/04/kde-icons-disappearing-unstable/
> which also mentions disappearing icons, so perhaps promising.

that sounds promising. Did you try the workaround?

Update 2

Carsten provided the REAL solution to this, run “apt remove
libqt5quick5-gles” which will automatically install “libqt5quick5” which
makes things work. Another workstation I run that tracks Testing had
libqt5quick5 installed which was why it didn’t have the problem.

Bernhard

Message #62 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Missing icons restored

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:47:06 +0000

As suggested in one of those posts,

export MESA_EXTENSION_OVERRIDE="-GL_EXT_bgra -GL_EXT_texture_format_BGRA8888"

before running linphone restores the icons!

I need to test further tomorrow, but it looks very promissing ...

Message #67 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: Bernhard Schmidt <berni@debian.org>

Cc: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>, 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: linphone-desktop: Icons not shown

Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 21:56:07 +0000

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 10:23:14PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> Am 04.01.21 um 22:16 schrieb ael:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> > When I run linphone
> > 
> > QSGTextureAtlas: texture atlas allocation failed, code=501
> > 
> > is one of the messages sent to stdout. Not sure whether this is relevant
> > as yet.
> > 
> > A quick search gave a few hits like
> > https://etbe.coker.com.au/2020/12/04/kde-icons-disappearing-unstable/
> > which also mentions disappearing icons, so perhaps promising.
> 
> that sounds promising. Did you try the workaround?

Yes. Already posted. It worked.
 
> Update 2
> 
> Carsten provided the REAL solution to this, run “apt remove
> libqt5quick5-gles” which will automatically install “libqt5quick5” which
> makes things work. Another workstation I run that tracks Testing had
> libqt5quick5 installed which was why it didn’t have the problem.

Yes, that seems to have worked. Excellent. I need to do a bit more
testing tomorrow...

ael

Message #72 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#979139: linphone-desktop: Icons not shown

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 13:28:31 +0000

I have just returned to testing linphone (after getting twinkle to
work as well), and I have hit another problem.

I can make outgoing calls, but I cannot answer incoming calls. Could
that be another missing icon?

When I make an incoming test tool, linphone plays the ringtone, but 
I can't see any change in the GUI, nor any way to answer the call.

I have just posted a message to the linphone mailing list
linphone-users@nongnu.org

Message #77 received at 979139@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: ael <witwall3@disroot.org>

To: 979139@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Answering calls

Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 16:48:10 +0000

After my last post there was a reply on the linphone list.

I tried again in a completely new session, and this time a small window
popped up in the bottom right hand side of the screen.

I find it hard to believe that I missed that before, but perhaps I was
concentrating on the main linphone window and somehow escaped my notice.

ael

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