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Bug 699250 - Color calibration never starts
Color calibration never starts
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Color
3.8.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Richard Hughes
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-29 17:58 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2021-06-09 16:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Log of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v (233.40 KB, text/plain)
2013-05-29 19:49 UTC, tuxor
Details
stdout of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v (238.25 KB, text/x-log)
2013-09-25 22:19 UTC, tuxor
Details
stdout of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v (223.41 KB, text/x-log)
2013-12-11 20:10 UTC, tuxor
Details

Description Michael Monreal 2013-04-29 17:58:33 UTC
The calibration process using my Huey device does not start. The wizard dialog finishes just fine and the Huey graphic is shown, telling me to attach the device to the screen and press start. After doing this, the white area gets a bit bigger but nothing more changes after that, so I have to cancel the process.

Tested version: control-center-3.8.1-2.fc19.x86_64
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2013-04-29 20:52:14 UTC
If you leave the calibration for 10 minutes, does the blue bar advance at all?
Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2013-04-30 05:42:35 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> If you leave the calibration for 10 minutes, does the blue bar advance at all?

I tested again and let it run a bit longer. Now, at some point, it changed to "Calibration failed! The target whitepoint was not obtainable." There was no blue bar at any point of the process.
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2013-04-30 10:53:55 UTC
Hmm. I've changed the sample delay from 200ms to 400ms as on some hardware 200ms is not enough time for the color to stabilize on the screen. Could you try with colord git, or with these packages please (just colord): http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/fedora/19/x86_64/

Thanks,

Richard.
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2013-04-30 10:56:57 UTC
Also, on the old version, this would be useful:

Run (as your normal user): /usr/libexec/colord-session -v

then, try to calibrate just once. The output from colord-session would be very useful. Thanks!
Comment 5 Michael Monreal 2013-04-30 15:30:56 UTC
$ /usr/libexec/colord-session -v
17:28:23	Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
17:28:23	CdMain: acquired name: org.freedesktop.ColorHelper
17:29:51	CdMain: :1.162:Start(xrandr-AU Optronics,huey-01)
17:29:51	Quality: high
17:29:51	Whitepoint: 6500K
17:29:51	Gamma: 2,40
17:29:51	Title: 33643EG
17:29:51	Device kind: lcd
17:29:53	CdMain: Emitting InteractionRequired(0,attach the sensor to the screen,/usr/share/colord/icons/huey-attach.svg)
17:30:09	CdMain: :1.162:Resume()
17:30:09	CdMain: Emitting UpdateGamma(2 elements)
17:30:09	CdMain: Emitting UpdateSample(1,000000,1,000000,1,000000)
17:30:11	Absolute white: 7,879903
17:30:11	x:0,135776,y:0,022390,Y:7,879903
17:30:11	CdMain: Emitting Finished(6,failed to get native temperature)
Comment 6 Michael Monreal 2013-04-30 15:38:01 UTC
After installing colord/colord-libs 0.1.34-0.423.20130430git from the page you linked, my Huey is no longer detected (even after a full reboot). In the settings panel, it says "Unable to detect and device that can be color managed"
Comment 7 Richard Hughes 2013-04-30 15:53:28 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> After installing colord/colord-libs 0.1.34-0.423.20130430git

You need to install all the colord* packages, not just the -libs package. I'm trying to work out how you got an XYZ reading of X:11.399987,Y:1.879903,Z:70.681834 from a white patch. Can you grab the output from "spotread -yl" measuring display white please? Thanks.
Comment 8 Michael Monreal 2013-04-30 16:03:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> You need to install all the colord* packages, not just the -libs package.

As said, I installed the colord and colord-libs packages. Besides those two, I only have colord-gtk installed (no newer version in your directory)

> I'm
> trying to work out how you got an XYZ reading of
> X:11.399987,Y:1.879903,Z:70.681834 from a white patch. Can you grab the output
> from "spotread -yl" measuring display white please? Thanks.

Not exactly sure what I am doing here :)
I ran the command while the device was on a white spot (background of this bugzilla page) and hit space:

 Result is XYZ: 135.469046 238.910504 297.243798, D50 Lab: 139.073077 -108.410321 -39.252637
Comment 9 Richard Hughes 2013-05-01 08:17:11 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
>  Result is XYZ: 135.469046 238.910504 297.243798

Okay, that's perfect. Could you try exactly the same thing (i.e. attached to the white on the screen):

colormgr get-sensor-reading lcd

Thanks.
Comment 10 Michael Monreal 2013-05-01 08:59:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> Okay, that's perfect. Could you try exactly the same thing (i.e. attached to
> the white on the screen): colormgr get-sensor-reading lcd

sure:

$ colormgr get-sensor-reading lcd
Sensor: Gretag-Macbeth AG - Huey
Color XYZ : 127,749267, 231,854579, 254,946173
Color XYZ : 127,752176, 231,824529, 254,913318
Color XYZ : 127,751687, 231,854413, 254,881186

I also redid the spotread -yl and now I get these values:

 Result is XYZ: 127.349964 231.814837 252.406142, D50 Lab: 137.522393 -113.145274 -25.661369
Comment 11 Michael Monreal 2013-05-02 13:45:21 UTC
Small update: with colord-0.1.34-1.fc19.x86_64 I can at least start the calibration process again, but it runs into the same error as originally reported.

Did you find out what is wrong? Is my Huey broken?
Comment 12 tuxor 2013-05-29 19:46:07 UTC
For me, it starts calibrating and calibrates for appx. 22 minutes, then it fails. 

Output of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v: http://pastebin.com/pyfpgfgL

Using these versions (on Fedora 19, x86_64, ThinkPad T400s):

colord.x86_64  1.0.0-1.fc19
argyllcms.x86_64  1.4.0-9.fc19
control-center.x86_64  3.8.2-1.fc19

What's interesting: Calibrating with setting "low quality" (15 minutes) works flawlessly.
Comment 13 tuxor 2013-05-29 19:49:08 UTC
Created attachment 245583 [details]
Log of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v

In order to connect the log directly with this bug report instead of only linking to a foreign website (pastebin dot com).
Comment 14 tuxor 2013-07-19 21:53:37 UTC
Using the RPMs provided in comment #3 it's still the same:

colord.x86_64                1.1.1-0.466.20130714git.fc19 @/colord-1.1.1-0.466.20130714git.fc19.x86_64
colord-libs.x86_64           1.1.1-0.466.20130714git.fc19

Any progress on this in the meantime?
Comment 15 tuxor 2013-09-11 10:15:58 UTC
Still there after the latest update of argyllcms (in fedora repos):

argyllcms.x86_64                              1.6.0-1.fc19
Comment 16 Richard Hughes 2013-09-11 16:32:17 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> Any progress on this in the meantime?

"Gamma correction table was non-monotonic" is the reason for failure, but I can't see why the increased resolution would make this more likely. I really need the debug output from a newer version of colord that actually dumps the table on failure.
Comment 17 Michael Monreal 2013-09-11 19:30:47 UTC
For me the resolution does not make a difference but maybe tuxor can attach a newer log
Comment 18 tuxor 2013-09-25 22:19:37 UTC
Created attachment 255727 [details]
stdout of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v

Used versions:

argyllcms.x86_64                       1.6.0-1.fc19
colord.x86_64                          1.0.3-1.fc19
colord-libs.x86_64                     1.0.3-1.fc19
Comment 19 tuxor 2013-11-03 16:33:09 UTC
Any progress yet?
Comment 20 tuxor 2013-12-11 20:10:54 UTC
Created attachment 264007 [details]
stdout of /usr/libexec/colord-session -v

Used versions:

argyllcms.x86_64                       1.6.2-1.fc19
colord.x86_64                          1.0.5-1.fc19
colord-libs.x86_64                     1.0.5-1.fc19

... and Colorhug Firmware 1.2.0
Comment 21 tuxor 2013-12-11 20:13:54 UTC
Sorry, a correction: I used Firmware 1.2.1
Comment 22 André Klapper 2021-06-09 16:13:20 UTC
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version, then please follow
  https://wiki.gnome.org/GettingInTouch/BugReportingGuidelines
and create a new bug report at
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/

Thank you for your understanding and your help.