[Qgis-developer] Ubuntu 8.10 and QGIS 0.11

[Alex Mandel]

Carson Farmer wrote:
> Alex,
>> Carson Farmer wrote:
>>  
>>> Alex,
>>>    
>>>> Well, it appears to be an issue on only some machines possibly related
>>>> to video card drivers and X11 not necessarily qt.
>>>>
>>>> Both 0.11 and 1.0 kore work on a fresh Ubuntu install (tested in
>>>> virtual
>>>> box) so kde libs are not the solution.
>>>>
>>>> I have an nvidia gforce 8600gm, and tried both the nv and nvidia(177)
>>>> drivers, haven't tried plain vga drivers yet.
>>>>
>>>> Carson: what video card do you have?
>>>>         
>>> I have an intel card: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 950
>>>
>>> I have had quite a bit of graphics card trouble with Intrepid, so I
>>> actually ended up doing a complete reinstall of hardy... Until I hear
>>> some very promising news saying these issues are resolved, I think I'm
>>> going to stick with hardy... sorry I can't be of more help...
>>>
>>> Carson
>>>     
>>
>> Carson,
>>
>> Can you just confirm that you were not having the gdal issue that was
>> causing a segfault and that you were having an issue where the splash
>> screen stuck at "Setting up GUI"
>>   
> Yes, I can confirm that the issue was with the splash screen stuck at
> "Setting up GUI"
> 
> Carson

Well we're one step closer to solving the issue, ok 647 steps closer,
I've narrowed down the issue to 647 possible packages and am working
through them now.

Carson, Tim if you can diff this list against your installed packages
and tell me the matches it will speed up the process.
Here's the list:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1384

Fresh installs work fine, so if you have a fresh install of Intrepid go
ahead.

Alex