[Reportbug-maint] Bug#864157: reportbug: reportbug not starting with GUI, only CLI working

[Stephen Paul Weber]

Package: reportbug
Version: 7.1.7
Followup-For: Bug #864157

Dear Maintainer,

I also had this problem after installing Strech from CD with LXDE desktop
environment.  Reportbug is in the menu, but selecting it appears to do nothing.
If running `reportbug --ui gtk2` from the terminal I get the same error as OP.

Installing python3-gi-cairo caused reportbug to switch error messages to
recommend I install gir1.2-vte-2.91 also.  With both installed, now the GTK+ UI
works.

I suggest these two packages be included in default installs, at the very
least.



-- Package-specific info:
** Environment settings:
INTERFACE="gtk2"

** /home/singpolyma/.reportbugrc:
reportbug_version "7.1.7"
mode standard
ui text
email "singpolyma at singpolyma.net"
no-cc
header "X-Debbugs-CC: singpolyma at singpolyma.net"
smtphost reportbug.debian.org

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4.6
ii  python3            3.5.3-1
ii  python3-reportbug  7.1.7

reportbug recommends no packages.

Versions of packages reportbug suggests:
pn  claws-mail                                 <none>
pn  debconf-utils                              <none>
pn  debsums                                    <none>
pn  dlocate                                    <none>
pn  emacs24-bin-common | emacs25-bin-common    <none>
ii  exim4                                      4.89-2+deb9u1
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent]  4.89-2+deb9u1
ii  file                                       1:5.30-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                             3.22.11-1
ii  gir1.2-vte-2.91                            0.46.1-1
ii  gnupg                                      2.1.18-6
ii  python3-gi                                 3.22.0-2
ii  python3-gi-cairo                           3.22.0-2
pn  python3-gtkspellcheck                      <none>
pn  python3-urwid                              <none>
ii  xdg-utils                                  1.1.1-1

Versions of packages python3-reportbug depends on:
ii  apt                1.4.6
ii  file               1:5.30-1
ii  python3            3.5.3-1
ii  python3-debian     0.1.30
ii  python3-debianbts  2.6.1
ii  python3-requests   2.12.4-1

python3-reportbug suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information