Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:04:11PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > (KDE4 causing hard system lockups/freezes during console > > sessions, but not FreeNX sessions.) > > Hm I see. > My next hint would be try to disable the compositing of kwin (the window > manager), maybe it somehow detects it is ava

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle mercoledì 14 dicembre 2011, Michael Cree ha scritto: > Unfortunately qt4-x11 now FTBFS on Alpha (whereas it built in the > past). The following error is seen: > [...] > /build/buildd-qt4-x11_4.7.3-8+b1-alpha-SWrnkU/qt4-x11-4.7.3/include/Q > tCore/qstringlist.h:1:109: fatal error: > ../../../..

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle domenica 11 dicembre 2011, Bob Tracy ha scritto: > Thank you for your reply. Disabling nepomuk did not seem to have any > effect. In fact, with the 3.2-rc5 kernel, the lock-up happened even > more quickly. When starting KDE4, there's the splash screen and five > icons that fade-in from left

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 14/12/11 20:02, Michael Cree wrote: > We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 on Alpha. I have binNMU qt4-x11 to > rebuild with gcc-4.6. Unfortunately qt4-x11 now FTBFS on Alpha (whereas it built in the past). The following error is seen: make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-qt4-x11_4.7.3-8+b1

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:02:32PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On 13/12/11 01:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of > > our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile > > exercise. > > We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 o

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Cree
On 13/12/11 01:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of > our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile > exercise. We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 on Alpha. I have binNMU qt4-x11 to rebuild with gcc-4.6. Are there any ot

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:34:05PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Bob, I've just recompiled iceweasel and icedove with gcc-4.6 and full > optimisation (other than --no-relax in the linker) and the crashes in > those two packages have disappeared. I am sending this message with > icedove from my A

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On 12/12/11 02:58, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: If it's the virtuoso process to create issue, you can try disabling the semantic desktop (which uses the virtuoso DB): either you uninstall the virtuoso packages, or disable nepomuk for your user in

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > If it's the virtuoso process to create issue, you can try disabling the > semantic desktop (which uses the virtuoso DB): either you uninstall the > virtuoso packages, or disable nepomuk for your user in a console with: > $ kwriteconf

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-10 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi Bob, Alle venerdì 9 dicembre 2011, Bob Tracy ha scritto: > Armed with nearly three times the RAM I used to have, I screwed up my > courage and tried a plasma-desktop session on the console. It locked > up the machine as it did on all prior attempts, but now that the > machine isn't paging itse

KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-09 Thread Bob Tracy
Armed with nearly three times the RAM I used to have, I screwed up my courage and tried a plasma-desktop session on the console. It locked up the machine as it did on all prior attempts, but now that the machine isn't paging itself to death, it seems easier to start narrowing down cause and effect