Hello all,
I am having troubles with all KDE apps since a recent upgrade to 3.5.7 from
3.5.5. At first I thought it was related to all the upgrade troubles with
expat (which was upgraded to version 2 at the same time) however I am not so
sure anymore.
'emerge -puD' reports nothing to update, and 'revdep-rebuild' says everything
is kosher. Everything seems to work fine on this box now except for kde apps,
and I have not found a single kde app that does work.
I typically use kde as my default WM/Desktop. After the upgrade, when
I 'startx' I get nothing but a black screen, except for the mouse cursor,
which tracks across the desktop normally. Nothing else has an effect.
So I changed to Fluxbox, and the desktop starts fine. When I attempt to start
kde apps from an eterm I get (as example):
$ konsole
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
Kcrash: Application 'konsole' crashing...
$
Depending on the app, the output is similar, but not always identical. When I
use strace when starting I can see that all the apps are segfaulting. I would
post output here but the segfaults happen in different places depending on
the app. Sometimes it is triggered by a read/write call, sometimes by a
mprotect call and so on...
Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here? I realize I have not posted
much useful information to diagnose this, but I am unsure how to troubleshoot
further. I will certainly post output of any commands that may help...
System is a Powermac G5, Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r5, 64 bit userland.
Thanks for consideration,
-d
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"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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I am having troubles with all KDE apps since a recent upgrade to 3.5.7 from
3.5.5. At first I thought it was related to all the upgrade troubles with
expat (which was upgraded to version 2 at the same time) however I am not so
sure anymore.
'emerge -puD' reports nothing to update, and 'revdep-rebuild' says everything
is kosher. Everything seems to work fine on this box now except for kde apps,
and I have not found a single kde app that does work.
I typically use kde as my default WM/Desktop. After the upgrade, when
I 'startx' I get nothing but a black screen, except for the mouse cursor,
which tracks across the desktop normally. Nothing else has an effect.
So I changed to Fluxbox, and the desktop starts fine. When I attempt to start
kde apps from an eterm I get (as example):
$ konsole
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
Kcrash: Application 'konsole' crashing...
$
Depending on the app, the output is similar, but not always identical. When I
use strace when starting I can see that all the apps are segfaulting. I would
post output here but the segfaults happen in different places depending on
the app. Sometimes it is triggered by a read/write call, sometimes by a
mprotect call and so on...
Does anyone have an idea what might be wrong here? I realize I have not posted
much useful information to diagnose this, but I am unsure how to troubleshoot
further. I will certainly post output of any commands that may help...
System is a Powermac G5, Kernel 2.6.20-gentoo-r5, 64 bit userland.
Thanks for consideration,
-d
--
darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972
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