On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Moinak Ghosh<moinakg at belenix.org> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> ? I have been quiet for a while while busy building KDE 4 and it's >> tanker-loads of dependencies. I am happy to mention that the entire > [...]> >> Dolphin crashes whenever I hover the mouse over a file icon. It appears >> to be a font issue when trying to render the popup file preview box. This >> essentially renders dolphin unusable right now. >> > [...] > > ? Okay so dolphin is now peaceful again. I was able to fix the crash. > ? It turned out to be some C++ mumbo jumbo (I hate C++ soooo much)
Amen! nuff said. ~b > ? in Strigi Not KDEBase. Strigi is a desktop search helper consisting of > ? a daemon and libraries: http://strigi.sourceforge.net/ > > ? This is used by KDE 4. In one function strigi walks through an > ? std::vector of the PATH components to locate a given utility. Once > ? found it returns the std:string object of the fully resolved path. For some > ? reason it was crashing when trying to return an std:string object local > ? to the function to the caller where it gets assigned to another string > ? variable. It was crashing inside > ? libstdc++.so.6.0.11`__gnu_cxx::__exchange_and_add > ? Googling revealed this Gentoo bug report: > ? http://bugs.gentoo.org/228367 > > ? However eventually I fixed the problem by resorting to dynamic allocation > ? and passing pointers around. The patch is fairly simple: > ? > http://belenix.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/belenix/trunk/spec_files/kde4/patches/strigi-04-path_assign_crash.diff?revision=339&view=markup > > ? Another point is that if you want a meaningful core file from a KDE app > ? you need to run it with ?the options '--nofork --nocrashhandler' to run > ? as foreground and disable the DrKonqui crash handler. Otherwise all > ? you get is a vomit! > > Regards, > Moinak. > -- > ================================ > http://www.belenix.org/ > http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss >
