[Eric] segfault at startup

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Dienstag, 24. Juli 2007, Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:
> 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

Try to start eric3 with the --nokde switch. If that works, it is a problem 
with PyKDE.

Regards,
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de