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Bug 1477745 - Emacs GUI Toolbar icons missing
Summary: Emacs GUI Toolbar icons missing
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification: Red Hat
Component: emacs
Version: 7.4
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Jan Synacek
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1495264 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: 1484996 1549617 1549689 1551061
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-02 19:33 UTC by Don Pellegrino
Modified: 2021-12-10 15:11 UTC (History)
23 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
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Last Closed: 2018-10-30 10:45:11 UTC
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Embargoed:

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Screenshot (28.98 KB, image/png)
2017-08-02 19:33 UTC, Don Pellegrino 		no flags Details
patch (30.37 KB, patch)
2018-01-04 08:22 UTC, Jan Synacek 		no flags Details | Diff
patch v2 (25.51 KB, patch)
2018-01-05 14:01 UTC, Jan Synacek 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1495264 0 medium CLOSED Missing icons in emacs 2021-12-10 15:17:20 UTC
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 3685831 0 None None None 2018-11-12 17:36:28 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:3166 0 None None None 2018-10-30 10:45:28 UTC

Internal Links: 1495264

Description Don Pellegrino 2017-08-02 19:33:49 UTC 
Created attachment 1308433 [details]
Screenshot

Description of problem:

The Emacs GUI toolbar icons disappeared after the RHEL 7.3 to 7.4 upgrade set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

$ rpm -qi emacs
Name        : emacs
Epoch       : 1
Version     : 24.3
Release     : 19.el7_3
Architecture: x86_64
Install Date: Fri 03 Mar 2017 01:50:25 PM EST
Group       : Applications/Editors
Size        : 14848179
License     : GPLv3+
Signature   : RSA/SHA256, Thu 09 Feb 2017 11:30:33 AM EST, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51
Source RPM  : emacs-24.3-19.el7_3.src.rpm
Build Date  : Mon 16 Jan 2017 06:14:36 AM EST
Build Host  : x86-037.build.eng.bos.redhat.com
Relocations : (not relocatable)
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Vendor      : Red Hat, Inc.
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
Summary     : GNU Emacs text editor
Description :
Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting, modeless text
editor. Emacs contains special code editing features, a scripting
language (elisp), and the capability to read mail, news, and more
without leaving the editor.

This package provides an emacs binary with support for X windows.

How reproducible:

Always

Actual results:

See screenshot

Additional info:

It seems that after the upgrade from RHEL 7.3 to 7.4 and a reboot, the Emacs GUI lost its toolbar icons. Note that the emacs package is still reported as el7_3. Perhaps there is a 7.4 package missing from the repository?
Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2017-08-03 07:11:35 UTC 
(In reply to Donald Pellegrino from comment #0)
> It seems that after the upgrade from RHEL 7.3 to 7.4 and a reboot, the Emacs
> GUI lost its toolbar icons.

There were only 2 tiny fixes going into Emacs for 7.4 that had nothing to do with GUI. I have verified that the icons are missing even with emacs-24.3-18.el7.x86_64. The problem is very likely in the gtk code that has changed quite a lot with the update.

> Note that the emacs package is still reported as
> el7_3. Perhaps there is a 7.4 package missing from the repository?

This is expected. The el7_3 means that the patches I wrote about above were also applied in 7.3.z (z-stream) and no newer fixes were added into 7.4.
Comment 3 Don Pellegrino 2017-08-03 14:41:03 UTC 
Thanks for the heads-up @Jan Synacek. This is a minor issue, but if bumping the whole package up to the latest GNU Emacs 25.2 fixes things then that would be ideal fix for me.
Comment 4 andrew2.hart 2017-09-21 11:57:39 UTC 
Compiling emacs 25.2.1 from source fixed this emacs toolbar icons / buttons missing problem for me (as did downgrading everything gtk 3.22)
Comment 5 andrew2.hart 2017-09-21 12:51:26 UTC 
I am thinking it is to be fixed is emacs not gtk ... but i am no-one :

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/48862
Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2017-11-10 20:31:26 UTC 
https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/3f4c6d52d345999938bc2d4a53246af4c61ef176

is an emacs commit that is supposed to fix this
Comment 8 Matthias Clasen 2018-01-02 17:50:35 UTC 
Jan, can you do that ?
Comment 9 Jan Synacek 2018-01-03 08:32:29 UTC 
17 out of 31 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file src/gtkutil.c.rej

This may take a while.
Comment 11 Jan Synacek 2018-01-04 08:22:06 UTC 
Created attachment 1376690 [details]
patch
Comment 16 Jan Synacek 2018-01-05 14:01:55 UTC 
Created attachment 1377500 [details]
patch v2
Comment 17 Jan Synacek 2018-01-05 14:05:21 UTC 
Note that this patch also removes the tear-off handles from the menu bar. That is how it was written upstream and I don't consider it a regression. I also tried to backport only the icon-related parts of the patch without touching the menu bar handles, but that didn't work at all.
Comment 18 Wendell MacKenzie 2018-01-19 19:23:44 UTC 
I applied this patch to my 24.3 src download, rebuilt and installed it.  Toolbar is back again. :)
Comment 19 Jan Synacek 2018-01-22 07:26:30 UTC 
Thank you for testing!
Comment 20 BugMasta 2018-03-16 03:59:02 UTC 
Geezus christ. Enterprise Linux. And emacs is broken.

This is a travesty.
Comment 21 Jan Synacek 2018-04-09 09:01:53 UTC 
*** Bug 1495264 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 29 Paul Weber 2018-08-02 18:16:44 UTC 
We can forcibly remove the updated (latest) version of gtk3-3.22.26-4.el7_5.x86_64 and subsequently force the installation of gtk3-3.14.13-16.el7.x86_64 via the rpm command.  The icons return to the menu of emacs-24.3-20.el7_4.x86_64.  The issue appears to be in gtk3 after gtk3-3.14.13-16.el7
Comment 30 Frantisek Sumsal 2018-09-06 09:17:07 UTC 
Created attachment 1481240 [details]
Old emacs version with missing icons
Comment 31 Frantisek Sumsal 2018-09-06 09:17:41 UTC 
Created attachment 1481241 [details]
New emacs version with icons present
Comment 33 vicgonzalez 2018-10-05 12:45:20 UTC 
(In reply to Frantisek Sumsal from comment #31)
> Created attachment 1481241 [details]
> New emacs version with icons present

I tried to follow the attachment link but I get a "Sorry, you are not authorized to access attachment" error...
How can I get it?
Comment 34 Jan Synacek 2018-10-05 13:02:41 UTC 
(In reply to vicgonzalez from comment #33)
> How can I get it?

You can't, they are private. They just show that the icons are back.
Comment 35 vicgonzalez 2018-10-05 14:35:49 UTC 
(In reply to Jan Synacek from comment #34)
> (In reply to vicgonzalez from comment #33)
> > How can I get it?
> 
> You can't, they are private. They just show that the icons are back.

And where or when will be a binary version with the fix to download?
The trick downgrading gtk3 has lots of dependencies...
Comment 36 Frantisek Sumsal 2018-10-08 08:22:11 UTC 
(In reply to vicgonzalez from comment #35)
> (In reply to Jan Synacek from comment #34)
> > (In reply to vicgonzalez from comment #33)
> > > How can I get it?
> > 
> > You can't, they are private. They just show that the icons are back.
> 
> And where or when will be a binary version with the fix to download?
> The trick downgrading gtk3 has lots of dependencies...

The fix is included in RHEL 7.6, so it will be available when 7.6 reaches GA.
Comment 37 vicgonzalez 2018-10-09 12:36:53 UTC 
Great! I downloaded the 7.6beta and then in a RHEL 7.4 upgraded all the emacs packages and its dependencies (240 all together) to the 7.6beta equivalent.
Now the icons work perfectly. 
The packages were basically:
 dbus-1.10.24-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
 dbus-devel-1.10.24-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
 dbus-libs-1.10.24-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
 dbus-x11-1.10.24-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
 emacs-24.3-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
 emacs-auctex-11.87-4.el7.noarch.rpm
 emacs-common-24.3-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
 emacs-filesystem-24.3-21.el7.noarch.rpm
 emacs-gnuplot-4.6.2-3.el7.noarch.rpm
 emacs-nox-24.3-21.el7.x86_64.rpm
 emacs-php-mode-1.18.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm
 t1lib-5.1.2-14.el7.x86_64.rpm
 tex-preview-11.87-4.el7.noarch.rpm
 texlive-2012-43.20130427_r30134.el7.x86_64.rpm
 texlive-ae-svn15878.1.4-43.el7.noarch.rpm
 texlive-algorithms-svn15878.0.1-43.el7.noarch.rpm
and lots of other texlive-
Comment 39 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 10:45:11 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3166
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