Re: pkg/59858: audio/pavucontrol broken

The following reply was made to PR pkg/59858; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ramiro Aceves <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/59858: audio/pavucontrol broken
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:33:24 +0100

 El 12/1/26 a las 14:15, RVP via gnats escribió:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/59858; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: RVP <[email protected]>
 > To: [email protected]
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: pkg/59858: audio/pavucontrol broken
 > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:13:17 +0000 (UTC)
 > 
 >   >> Description:
 >   > audio/pavucontrol window does not work properly, it seems to be completely
 >   > broken. I see some sliders and audio levels but no inscriptions at all. Also
 >   > no icons. No tabs in the top but pressing in that zone make effect changing
 >   > to them.
 >   >
 >   
 >   This is some bizarre interaction between some locales (specifically, LC_NUMERIC)
 >   and GTK4. You can see the same issue with gtk4-demo:
 >   
 >   $ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 gtk4-demo
 >   
 >   GTK3 (gtk3-demo) looks fine. So does using a US, UK or JP locale:
 >   
 >   $ LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 gtk4-demo			# works fine too, but not fr_FR!
 >   
 >   However, only LC_NUMERIC seems to be the culprit (don't ask me why or how), so
 >   you can do this as a workaround to keep the language:
 >   
 >   $ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C pavucontrol	# or gtk4-demo
 >   
 >   -RVP
 >   
 
 Thanks RVP:
 
 netbsd-raspa4$ LANG=es_es.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C pavucontrol
 W: [(null)] caps.c: Normally all extra capabilities would be dropped 
 now, but that's impossible because PulseAudio was built without 
 capabilities support.
 Couldn't open libGLESv2.so: pavucontrol: Shared object "libGLESv2.so" 
 not found
 [1]   Abort trap (core dumped) LANG=es_es.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C pavucontrol
 netbsd-raspa4$
 
 netbsd-raspa4$ LANG=es_es.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C gtk4-demo
 Couldn't open libGLESv2.so: gtk4-demo: Shared object "libGLESv2.so" not 
 found
 [1]   Abort trap (core dumped) LANG=es_es.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C gtk4-demo
 netbsd-raspa4$
 
 
 netbsd-raspa4$ ldd /usr/pkg/bin/pavucontrol
 /usr/pkg/bin/pavucontrol:
 	-lgtkmm-4.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgtkmm-4.0.so.0
 	-lgiomm-2.68.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgiomm-2.68.so.1
 	-lglibmm-2.68.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libglibmm-2.68.so.1
 	-lsigc-3.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libsigc-3.0.so.0
 	-lstdc++.9 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.9
 	-lm.0 => /usr/lib/libm.so.0
 	-lgcc_s.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
 	-lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
 	-lglib-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
 	-lintl.1 => /usr/lib/libintl.so.1
 	-lpcre2-8.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpcre2-8.so.0
 	-lpthread.1 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.1
 	-lgobject-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
 	-lffi.8 => /usr/pkg/lib/libffi.so.8
 	-lgmodule-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
 	-lgio-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
 	-lz.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libz.so.1
 	-lgtk-4.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgtk-4.so.1
 	-lpangocairo-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
 	-lpango-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0
 	-lfribidi.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libfribidi.so.0
 	-lharfbuzz.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libharfbuzz.so.0
 	-lfreetype.6 => /usr/pkg/lib/libfreetype.so.6
 	-lbz2.1 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1
 	-lpng16.16 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpng16.so.16
 	-lbrotlidec.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libbrotlidec.so.1
 	-lbrotlicommon.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libbrotlicommon.so.1
 	-lgraphite2.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgraphite2.so.3
 	-lpangoft2-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0
 	-lfontconfig.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
 	-lexpat.2 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.2
 	-lcairo.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/libcairo.so.2
 	-lfontconfig.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfontconfig.so.2
 	-lfreetype.19 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libfreetype.so.19
 	-lX11.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libX11.so.7
 	-lxcb.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libxcb.so.2
 	-lXau.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXau.so.7
 	-lXdmcp.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXdmcp.so.7
 	-lXext.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXext.so.7
 	-lXrender.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrender.so.2
 	-lxcb-render.0 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libxcb-render.so.0
 	-lxcb-shm.0 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libxcb-shm.so.0
 	-lpixman-1.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpixman-1.so.0
 	-lharfbuzz-subset.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libharfbuzz-subset.so.0
 	-lcairo-gobject.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/libcairo-gobject.so.2
 	-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
 	-ljpeg.8 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjpeg.so.8
 	-lepoxy.0 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libepoxy.so.0
 	-lgraphene-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libgraphene-1.0.so.0
 	-lXi.7 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXi.so.7
 	-ltiff.6 => /usr/pkg/lib/libtiff.so.6
 	-llzma.2 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.2
 	-lLerc.4 => /usr/pkg/lib/libLerc.so.4
 	-ljbig.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjbig.so.2
 	-lXcursor.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXcursor.so.2
 	-lXdamage.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXdamage.so.2
 	-lXfixes.4 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXfixes.so.4
 	-lXrandr.3 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXrandr.so.3
 	-lXinerama.2 => /usr/X11R7/lib/libXinerama.so.2
 	-lcairo-script-interpreter.2 => 
 /usr/pkg/lib/libcairo-script-interpreter.so.2
 	-llzo2.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/liblzo2.so.2
 	-lcairomm-1.16.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libcairomm-1.16.so.1
 	-lpangomm-2.48.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpangomm-2.48.so.1
 	-lcanberra.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libcanberra.so.0
 	-lvorbisfile.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libvorbisfile.so.3
 	-lvorbis.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libvorbis.so.0
 	-logg.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libogg.so.0
 	-lltdl.7 => /usr/pkg/lib/libltdl.so.7
 	-lpulse.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpulse.so.0
 	-lpulsecommon-17.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/pulseaudio/libpulsecommon-17.0.so
 	-lrt.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1
 	-lsndfile.1 => /usr/pkg/lib/libsndfile.so.1
 	-lFLAC.14 => /usr/pkg/lib/libFLAC.so.14
 	-lvorbisenc.2 => /usr/pkg/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2
 	-lopus.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libopus.so.0
 	-lmpg123.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libmpg123.so.0
 	-lmp3lame.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libmp3lame.so.0
 	-lterminfo.2 => /usr/lib/libterminfo.so.2
 	-ldbus-1.3 => /usr/pkg/lib/libdbus-1.so.3
 	-lexecinfo.0 => /usr/lib/libexecinfo.so.0
 	-lelf.2 => /usr/lib/libelf.so.2
 	-lpulse-mainloop-glib.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0
 	-ljson-glib-1.0.0 => /usr/pkg/lib/libjson-glib-1.0.so.0
 netbsd-raspa4$