[Qgis-user] Qgis segfaults on Kubuntu

[Albin Blaschka]

Hello,

I can reproduce the problem: Same here: QGIS starts, the splash screen 
appears until loading python-plugins and then segfaulting, nothing is 
written to the console. The package uim-qt3 is *not* installed...

System: Kubuntu Jaunty Jackalope, KDE 4.3
Python 2.6.2

The command on the console
sudo dpkg -l |grep qt3

brings

libavahi-qt3-1
libdbus-1-qt3
libqt3-mt
libqt4-qt3support
opera
qt3-assistant
qt3-doc

As the previous poster mentioned, with the update to KDE 4.3, some 
python modules got an update...which one could be the culprit - the 
segfault appears when QGIS starts to load python plugins...I have 
installed and activated several of them...

best wishes,
Albin

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Christy Nieman schrieb:
> 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
>>>>>

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