On 8 July 2010 21:16, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Nicholas Robbins posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:09:24 -0700 as excerpted: > >> Just a me-too message. I recently started having these crashes as well. >> They started about when I upgraded to libpng1.4. > > Ugh. Sounds like you still have the earlier version, and some library > using it, while another pulls in the new version, with both used by kmail, > so it's pulling in both versions into the same executable, and that's a > certain recipe for disaster, or at least crashes. > > I take it you've completed a revdep-rebuild and running it now comes up > clean? Do you run with as-needed in your ldflags? That will certainly > help, as will having lafilefixer in your portage post-install hooked > routines. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you may want to read > up on flameeyes' blog... the mentioned tricks can definitely save you a > **LOT** of trouble.) > > What about depclean? Do you use it regularly? > > If you're not doing that sort of stuff routinely, it may be that a > complete emerge --emptytree world is needed to get the cruft cleaned out, > but before you go to that trouble, I'd suggest setting up as-needed in > your ldflags, lafilefixer in your post-install, doing a --depclean -- > pretend and adding to world what you don't want removed, and consider > setting FEATURES=buildpkg, before you do the rebuild, so that when you're > done, you'll have the full world built cleanly with those options, and > binpkg backups for every package, as well. After that it should be MUCH > easier to keep up with routine maintenance, always doing a revdep-rebuild > and a depclean (I always use ask, to see what it's going to do, before > letting it go ahead, for both of these), after every update or package > removal. > > -- > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > >
Do none of these kmail crashes produce a crash dump or backtrace? If it is the png issue, it's pretty easy to spot from a crash dump in my experience. -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
