Thanks Chris,
the problem was solved by deleting the file .dolphinview, size 0 in the
affected directory.
Barry
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Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Sunday 15 June 2008 09:57:49 Barry wrote:
Hi all,
what is going wrong with dolphin causing it to crash when I select a
bookmark?
Goodness only knows. Is the crash repeatable?
the error msgs are:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dolphin&
[2] 21862
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ QDate::setYMD: Invalid date -53328--528--528
QTime::setHMS Invalid time -528:-528:-528.000
dolphin: viewproperties.cpp:275:
ViewProperties::PropertiesNode::PropertiesNode(QFile*): Assertion
`readBytes >= 0' failed.
KCrash: Application 'dolphin' crashing...
Interesting to note that 512 + 16 = 528
I wonder if this indicates that the little battery which keeps the crystal
clock alive while the machine is turned off has met its maker?
Entering date gives
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date
Sun Jun 15 09:49:26 NZST 2008
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
This was after setting the date/time with kcontrol as root.
Remember that there are two time setting mechanisms in Unix.
You have set the System Time, which is held in software.
The other is the Hardware Clock which uses the crystal clock as the source of
the time data. The reason for having a System Time as well as a crystal is
that the crystal oscillators in PCs are not really of 'time-piece' quality.
So I'd suggest that you check both the System Time and the Hardware Clock.
You should see something akin to:-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date; hwclock -r
Sun Jun 15 10:50:57 NZST 2008
Sun 15 Jun 2008 10:50:58 NZST -0.451311 seconds
For further entertainment you might find:-
http://www.ntp.org/
man date
man hwclock
man ntpdate
of more than just of passing interest.
You might also care to set up an automatic ntp correction each time you
connect to the internet. Explore the files in /etc/ppp/
