[Qgis-user] Qgis segfaults on Kubuntu

[Christy Nieman]

Have you tried what I suggested?  Configuring Qt should be independent  
of the windows manager you're using.

On 8-Aug-09, at 12:49 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da wrote:

> Hi
> I don't have the package uim-qt3 installed on my system, so the
> problem must lie elsewhere.
> Also, the solution Christy posted seems to be for GNOME users, and I'm
> on KDE. As I mentioned earlier, Qgis was working fine until I did an
> upgrade on some packages... Could it be that it is python related? I
> do remember there being some python-kde4 and python-sip packages in
> the upgrade. I noticed that I also can't start the eric4 IDE (which is
> written in python), but aside from that (and Qgis) I can use my other
> software as usual.
> No one else having this problem? Help!?
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Carson  
> Farmer<carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ricardo,
>>
>> The solution that Christy Nieman posted may well work as well, but  
>> the root
>> of the problem is likely that one of your qt3 packages isn't  
>> playing nicely
>> with QGIS (and probably other qt applications as well).
>>
>> The solution:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get remove uim-qt3
>>
>> Let us know if that helps,
>>
>> Carson
>>>
>>> Carson
>>> After typing qgis at the konsole I briefly see the splash window
>>> loading qgis as usual and then it crashes. The only output I get at
>>> the konsole window is "Segmentation  fault". I can't read the whole
>>> text that gets diplayed at the splash window, but I can confirm that
>>> it gets to the "starting python" message (which I think was the last
>>> message to be displayed usually)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Carson Farmer<carson.farmer at gmail.com 
>>> >
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Ricardo,
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello list
>>>>> Today I upgraded my Kubuntu Jaunty, installing several new  
>>>>> packages
>>>>> (including the shinny kde 4.3). I thought everything went fine,  
>>>>> but
>>>>> now I can't start Qgis. It only gives me a "segmentation fault"
>>>>> message in the konsole with nothing more.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you post the konsole output right up to the segfault?
>>>> Also, what was printed to the qgis splash screen?
>>>>
>>>> Carson
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carson J. Q. Farmer
>> ISSP Doctoral Fellow
>> National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG),
>> National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
>> Email: Carson.Farmer at gmail.com
>> Web:   http://www.carsonfarmer.com/
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>>
>>
>
>
>
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