Hi, what version of Qt were/are you using? It sounds like a bug in Qt because all eric does is to try to downlaod a little file via http. That file contains the version info.
Regards, Detlev On Dienstag, 25. November 2008, Laurent Bonny wrote: > Hello, > > I can confirm what Winfried reported. I use eric4-4-2-3 and it crashed all > the time as long as I didn't stop the autoupdate (furthermore the crash let > a pythonw process runing which takes loads of ressources). After > configuring the proxy, I restarted the autoupdate and every thing worked > fine. > > regards, > Laurent > > 2008/8/29 Simsys Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi, > > > > in our company we use windows XP and I had crashes every time I try to > > start eric 4.20. After the splash screen at start up there was a hint > > about a illegal address and eric4 crashed. I use eric4 often at home > > on linux: he is stable and I like him. So I played around with the the > > configuration utility and switched the auto update thing OFF > > (Application/Preferences/update/Check period to NONE). We use a proxy > > in our company and so I later switched the use proxy checkbox Use prox > > to ON and inserted the proxy address and port here. After that I could > > check for updates, manual and auto triggered. > > > > I think, eric4 has a problem, when he is installed behind a proxy and > > he tries to get information about newer versions from the internet (at > > least on Windows XP). > > > > regards > > Winfried > > _______________________________________________ > > Eric mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric -- Detlev Offenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eric mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/eric
