On Sunday 22 Jul 2012 11:07:27 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Please note that upstream likely is not interested anymore in bug reports > for such an old version of Konqueror. Cause a bug might already have been > fixed long ago.
Yeah, I was afraid of that - though it would be somewhat disappointing for software that's just 2 years old ..... but we mustn't complain when we've been given the software for free :) > I recommend to look at bugs.kde.org for a similar backtrace and look > whether it is fixed. If the fix is isolated enough it might be okay to > the Debian Qt/KDE team to cherry-pick it for Squeeze packages. I imagine a browser crash bug might be considered for fixing in a Debian point release .... browsers being so central to the functionality of any OS these days, and regular crashes being pretty much intolerable. Funnily enough, since I installed the debug symbols suggested by Daniel S Konqueror hasn't crashed once ..... I wonder whether this is a clue. > Otherwise alternative would be to use Debian Wheezy which is frozen now, > so any really disruptive changes before release are unlikely. Right now it's true, as you say, that Wheezy is reliable (I have it in a VM) - but in general I only use Stable for serious work, so I did want to know how best to progress reporting these sort of crashes in Stable Debian. > Third alternative would be to test with Debian Wheezy on another machine – > be it virtual or not – and test for the existence of the crash there as > well. Yes, except that this particular crash syndrome is not yet reproducible at will by me - I don't know what causes it. On one occasion I'd left the PC unattended for an hour and when I came back found Konqueror in a heap on the floor ..... > If so report upstream if not already done. Still any fix that KDE > developers provide needs to be backported to Squeeze. I assume they're usually happy to do that for a point release if the bug is "serious" enough - though I've no idea how many devs are available for that kind of work. > beware at least here Konqueror crashes often at the moment. That's dismal. Have you tried switching Konqueror to use 'kpart-webkit' ? I installed ReKonq just to have a look ... maybe I'll switch to using it all the time. I'd use Iceweasel except that I prefer fully-integrated KDE applications, and I always liked the speed of Konqueror back in KDE 3 days. Thanks for all your feedback - that's very helpful. Nick -- The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
