darren kirby wrote: > 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
Well, that doesn't sound good. :) Can you try using gdb to get a backtrace? Maybe they're all segfaulting when using the same library/function call. A backtrace from gdb would help us see that. -Joe -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
