Mrview does not work

Suddenly mrview command produces this error :

mrview
Error: in load: file "/usr/share/uim/lib/sigscheme-init.scm" not found

It has always worked, what I just did yesterday was trying to install python 3.6 on my computer, which is Debian8 Jessie. I had already installed python2.7 and python3.4
Thanks,
Rosella

That’s weird, mrview should have no dependence on python whatsoever. What is the output of following command?

which mrview
ldd $(which mrview)
mrview -debug
rosella@vivi:~/Downloads/uim-1.8.8$ which mrview
/home/rosella/mrtrix3/bin/mrview
rosella@vivi:~/Downloads/uim-1.8.8$ ldd $(which mrview)
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffd5fb99000)
	libmrtrix.so => /home/rosella/mrtrix3/bin/../lib/libmrtrix.so (0x00007fc68e568000)
	libQtOpenGL.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtOpenGL.so.4 (0x00007fc68e244000)
	libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtGui.so.4 (0x00007fc68d554000)
	libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtCore.so.4 (0x00007fc68d065000)
	libGL.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fc68cdcb000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc68cdaa000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fc68cbdc000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc68ca97000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fc68ca7d000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc68c8bd000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc68e783000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007fc68c8a0000)
	libtiff.so.5 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtiff.so.5 (0x00007fc68c629000)
	libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 (0x00007fc68c568000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc68c563000)
	libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXrender.so.1 (0x00007fc68c359000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fc68c217000)
	libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x00007fc68c1d1000)
	libaudio.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libaudio.so.2 (0x00007fc68c1b5000)
	libglib-2.0.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc68bea4000)
	libpng12.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng12.so.0 (0x00007fc68bc7d000)
	libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fc68ba2a000)
	libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libSM.so.6 (0x00007fc68ba1f000)
	libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libICE.so.6 (0x00007fc68b802000)
	libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fc68b5f0000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007fc68b5e3000)
	libexpat.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007fc68b5b6000)
	libglapi.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglapi.so.0 (0x00007fc68b38c000)
	libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdamage.so.1 (0x00007fc68b387000)
	libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXfixes.so.3 (0x00007fc68b181000)
	libX11-xcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11-xcb.so.1 (0x00007fc68b17c000)
	libxcb-glx.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-glx.so.0 (0x00007fc68b15d000)
	libxcb-dri2.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri2.so.0 (0x00007fc68b156000)
	libxcb-dri3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0 (0x00007fc68b150000)
	libxcb-present.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-present.so.0 (0x00007fc68b14b000)
	libxcb-sync.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-sync.so.1 (0x00007fc68b141000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fc68b117000)
	libxshmfence.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxshmfence.so.1 (0x00007fc68af13000)
	libXxf86vm.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXxf86vm.so.1 (0x00007fc68ad0d000)
	libdrm.so.2 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdrm.so.2 (0x00007fc68ab00000)
	liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007fc68aad7000)
	libjbig.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjbig.so.0 (0x00007fc68a8c9000)
	libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjpeg.so.62 (0x00007fc68a65e000)
	libpng16.so.16 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16 (0x00007fc68a625000)
	libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fc68a61c000)
	libXt.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXt.so.6 (0x00007fc68a5b1000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fc68a3ad000)
	libpcre.so.3 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpcre.so.3 (0x00007fc68a13d000)
	libffi.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libffi.so.6 (0x00007fc68a133000)
	libbsd.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbsd.so.0 (0x00007fc68a119000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libXdmcp.so.6 (0x00007fc689f13000)
rosella@vivi:~/Downloads/uim-1.8.8$ mrview -debug
Error: in load: file "/usr/share/uim/lib/sigscheme-init.scm" not found

Thanks,
Rosella

Nothing unexpected there, but clearly mrview crashes out very early on – before we’ve even had a chance to try reading the config file. This sounds like a Qt problem to me, most likely due to it trying to use a GTK theme (hard to verify without access to the system). A quick Google search suggests the error might be due to some broken packages or their dependencies – see if this post helps:

Thank you. I have already read this post but couldn’t figure it out! I think some updates caused problems to my OS system!
Rosella

Yes, I’m not sure what it is. There’s a chance another round of sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade might fix it, though…

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