Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force Quit" or "Wait."

When I launch it from the command line, I get this:

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:28.356: currency-provider.vala:386: Cannot use ECB rates as don't have EUR rate

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: currency-provider.vala:161: Couldn't download IMF currency rate file: HTTP/2 Error: INTERNAL_ERROR

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-session.c:334):soup_session_dispose: runtime check failed: (soup_connection_manager_get_num_conns (priv->conn_manager) == 0)

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-connection-manager.c:78):soup_host_free: runtime check failed: (host->conns == NULL)

My system:
Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
All very vanilla.

gnome-calculator:
  Installed: 1:43.0.1-2
  Candidate: 1:43.0.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 1:43.0.1-2 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Nothing is reported when monitoring launch with journalctl.

I was going to uninstall/reinstall gnome-terminal but when I ran "sudo apt purge gnome-calculator" I was told that the process would also remove gnome, gnome-core, and task-gnome-desktop; so I didn't proceed.

Any idea how I can fix this?

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* On 2025 21 Feb 14:18 -0600, Jochen Spieker wrote:

w f:

Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits.

What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information.

Most likely the libgnutls security updates.

Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup
"Force Quit" or "Wait."

When I launch it from the command line, I get this:

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:28.356: currency-provider.vala:386: Cannot use ECB rates as don't have EUR rate

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: currency-provider.vala:161: Couldn't download IMF currency rate file: HTTP/2 Error: INTERNAL_ERROR

I saw this line as well when starting gnome-calculator from a terminal
and followed up to the bug report Jochen linked below. My guess is that
the replacement libgnutls libraries broke this download and
gnome-calculator depends on that file being downloaded.

That is probably the same problem as described here (including a
solution):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059773

A work-around at any rate (pardon the pun).

- Nate

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w f:

Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits.

What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information.

Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes.
After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup
"Force Quit" or "Wait."

When I launch it from the command line, I get this:

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:28.356: currency-provider.vala:386: Cannot use ECB rates as don't have EUR rate

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: currency-provider.vala:161: Couldn't download IMF currency rate file: HTTP/2 Error: INTERNAL_ERROR

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-session.c:334):soup_session_dispose: runtime check failed: (soup_connection_manager_get_num_conns (priv->conn_manager) == 0)

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-connection-manager.c:78):soup_host_free: runtime check failed: (host->conns == NULL)

That is probably the same problem as described here (including a
solution):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059773

You can always go to https:///bugs.debian.org/<packagename> to find the
list of unresolved bugs for that package.

Nothing is reported when monitoring launch with journalctl.

I don't understand this. What exactly did you do?

I was going to uninstall/reinstall gnome-terminal

This approach will almost never help. Why should it? Installing the same version as before will just restore the same bugs. Launching a program
without any prior configuration (e.g. with a new user account for that
purpose) has a better chance of working.

but when I ran "sudo
apt purge gnome-calculator" I was told that the process would also
remove gnome, gnome-core, and task-gnome-desktop; so I didn't proceed.

Those are empty packages that exist only to depend on what constitutes a regular Gnome desktop. If you manually remove one of these dependencies,
the "umbrella" packages must go as well in order to maintain a
consistent system state. What you could do is run "apt install
--reinstall gnome-terminal" if you think it might help.

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On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:52:27 +0000 (UTC)
w f <[email protected]> wrote:

Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. After a
few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup "Force
Quit" or "Wait."

When I launch it from the command line, I get this:

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:28.356: currency-provider.vala:386: Cannot use ECB rates as don't have EUR
rate

** (gnome-calculator:15021): WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: currency-provider.vala:161: Couldn't download IMF currency rate file:
HTTP/2 Error: INTERNAL_ERROR

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-session.c:334):soup_session_dispose: runtime check
failed: (soup_connection_manager_get_num_conns (priv->conn_manager)
== 0)

(gnome-calculator:15021): libsoup-WARNING **: 12:43:30.040: (../libsoup/soup-connection-manager.c:78):soup_host_free: runtime
check failed: (host->conns == NULL)

Well, that's interesting. I'm not seeing any of that. On the hypothesis
that those abbreviations are for currency conversion data, I did a
conversion ($US to Euro). I did not get those errors, and the
conversion looks to be correct.

As for Nate Bargmann <[email protected]>'s conjecture I also have
libgnutls* 3.7.9-2+deb12u4 on amd64.

I conjecture that the source of the data glitched, and is now working correctly.

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That is probably the same problem as described here (including a
solution):

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1059773

A work-around at any rate (pardon the pun).

The solution/work-around (that worked for me) was in 1059773
... using dconf to disable attempts to download the currency file

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