Tim, I followed your advice and yes, that fixed most of the problems I was having. Apparently there was a system update that required a reboot, but there was an error and it just said all updates applied. This has occurred on the past couple of updates that didn't have too many changes, but something clearly got screwed up. I should have done this reboot myself, but I've become too comfortable believing the package manager. I won't make that mistake again. So that appears to resolve the issue. Thanks to you and Erich for your feedback.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to clutter-gtk in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1974254 Title: Probles with Clutter Status in clutter-gtk package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Running Xubuntu 20.04.4 I've started seeing all sorts of programs failing in the last week apparently due to clutter. This includes Geeqie and Cheese, and possibly Zoom, although I haven't tracked down the problem there. For example, when I try to start geeqie, I get: Can't initialize clutter-gtk. Start geeqie with the option: --disable-clutter When I try to run cheese I get: (cheese:1207183): Clutter-CRITICAL **: 17:54:24.432: Unable to initialize Clutter: Unable to initialize the Clutter backend: no available drivers found. ** (cheese:1207183): ERROR **: 17:54:24.432: cheese-application.vala:89: Unable to initialize libcheese-gtk Trace/BPT trap(coredump) In researching the problem I ran across this article: https://blogs.gnome.org/clutter/ Now, I have no idea what clutter is/does, but it seems to now be retired. Was the package removal back-ported to earlier releases of Ubuntu? The gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0, gir1-clutter-1.0 and gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0 packages are still installed. Any guidelines here? Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clutter-gtk/+bug/1974254/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
