[Eric] segfault at startup

[Andrej Ricnik-Bay]

Hi,

I'm experiencing similar issue as
http://www.mail-archive.com/eric@riverbankcomputing.com/msg00155.html

eric3 segfaults at startup.

Distro: Slackware 11
Kernel: 2.6.19

(all installed (re-installed) from source.
qt-3.3.8-i486-1_slack11.0
qScintilla-1.71-i486-1
PyQt-x11-gpl-3.17-i486-1
sip-4.5-i486-1


Trying to use the instructions given in the thread mentioned above
isn't working ... I don't get a segfault but this:
gdb --args python /usr/local/bin/eric3
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This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/eric3
Failed to read a valid object file image from memory.
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1212528416 (LWP 9376)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
  File "/usr/local/bin/eric3", line 3
    exec "/usr/bin/python" "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/eric3/eric3.py" $*
                                                                             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Program exited with code 01.

Any hints on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.



Cheers,
Andrej


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