[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2010-05-12 Thread Charlie Kravetz
We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2010-03-26 Thread Charlie Kravetz
We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks! -- Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330635 You received this bug notification because y

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2010-02-23 Thread Charlie Kravetz
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-27 Thread Cefn
I can confirm that the application does indeed work for me now I've arranged to launch the proper KDE services. Don't know how to achieve this on Gnome, but I'll be building a new Gnome desktop soon so I hope to try. -- Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-26 Thread Tom Jennings
(15 minutes after that post I realized it was xubuntu). Even after RTFM I cannot puzzle out which KDE services are the problem here. I can say this: kbibtex search works more or less correctly the first few times it is run after boot (possibly after X restart, have not tried that obvious test yet)

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-22 Thread Cefn
The option I'm describing is an XFCE settings option, which relates to the Xubuntu distribution and its lightweight window manager. If you're not running on Xubuntu, then this option won't be there. Because it's not committed to Gnome (Ubuntu) or KDE (Kubuntu), it's up to you whether you launch an

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-21 Thread Tom Jennings
Cefn, Can you give a more cogent description than 'Applications=>Settings=>Settings Manager=>Sessions and Startup'? My gnome desktop has no 'settings' item in the 'applications' pulldown (oh how I hate gui's sometimes). Is this a setting managed by gnome- settings-daemon? No luck searching for a

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-18 Thread Cefn
It's possible that this crash is connected to a checkbox 'Launch KDE services on startup', found in... Applications=>Settings=>Settings Manager=>Sessions and Startup ...as today after changing my session config to launch KDE services by default, I no longer experience this problem. The same Googl

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-17 Thread Cefn
The version checked out from the Ubuntu maintainer through synaptic after this modification to my sources.list... deb http://apsy.gse.uni-magdeburg.de/debian intrepid main ...is in fact worse than any of them. A google scholar search with this kbibtex, which identifies itself... kbibtex -v Qt:

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-17 Thread Cefn
The latest kbibtex-svnsnapshot.tar.bz2 downloaded from the package author's site at http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex/ a few minutes also demonstrates this hang and crash behaviour using the same steps. -- Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-17 Thread Cefn
To get the core dump and debug it, If I run... ulimit -c unlimited kbibtex --nocrashhandler gdb kbibtex core ...it reports the following which I hope is helpful... (gdb) backtrace #0 0xb6d83a28 in vfprintf () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #1 0xb6d887a0 in ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc

[Bug 330635] Re: Kbibtex hangs and crashes during online search

2009-02-17 Thread Cefn
** Description changed: Binary package hint: kbibtex I launch a completely fresh copy of Kbibtex, search for the following string using Google Scholar... "visual programming technology" ...and the program hangs indefinitely at 11% retrieved. Clicking on cancel or clicking t