[Eric] Re: Eric crashes on winxp

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

meanwhile I have seen this bad behavior myself. However, as soon as I started 
to debug it, the problem was gone and everything worked without a crash. I 
would like somebody who has consistant failures to try to debug this.

Regards,
Detlev

On Montag, 1. Dezember 2008, Laurent Bonny wrote:
> I used the latest PyQT package for windows, which means QT4.4.1.
> As soon as the proxy is configured, every thing worked fine.
>
> Regards,
> Laurent
>
> 2008/11/25 Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > what version of Qt were/are you using? It sounds like a bug in Qt because
> > all
> > eric does is to try to downlaod a little file via http. That file
> > contains the version info.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Detlev
> >
> > On Dienstag, 25. November 2008, Laurent Bonny wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I can confirm what Winfried reported. I use eric4-4-2-3 and it crashed
> >
> > all
> >
> > > the time as long as I didn't stop the autoupdate (furthermore the crash
> >
> > let
> >
> > > a pythonw process runing which takes loads of ressources). After
> > > configuring the proxy, I restarted the autoupdate and every thing
> > > worked fine.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Laurent
> > >
> > > 2008/8/29 Simsys Miller <simsys.miller at googlemail.com>
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > in our company we use windows XP and I had crashes every time I try
> > > > to start eric 4.20. After the splash screen at start up there was a
> > > > hint about a illegal address and eric4 crashed. I use eric4 often at
> > > > home on linux: he is stable and I like him. So I played around with
> > > > the the configuration utility and switched the auto update thing OFF
> > > > (Application/Preferences/update/Check period to NONE). We use a proxy
> > > > in our company and so I later switched the use proxy checkbox Use
> > > > prox to ON and inserted the proxy address and port here. After that I
> > > > could check for updates, manual and auto triggered.
> > > >
> > > > I think, eric4 has a problem, when he is installed behind a proxy and
> > > > he tries to get information about newer versions from the internet
> > > > (at least on Windows XP).
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > > Winfried
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> >
> > --
> > Detlev Offenbach
> > detlev at die-offenbachs.de



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