[Eric] Re: Eric crashes on winxp

[Detlev Offenbach]

Hi,

how did you do the installation? Did you compile everything yourself? Please 
give more info about what you did in which order? Why did you need to 
generate the PyQt4.api file? Isn't it part of some package?

Regards,
Detlev

On Samstag, 6. Dezember 2008, Joe Pimentel wrote:
> I am having a problem somewhat like that but I am using linux
> (Kubuntu). Eric4 used to work well (4-4.3).
> I was trying to use Qt API and the way I choose to solve that was to
> install the latest SIP (4.7.9) and PyQt4 (4.4.4) in order to generate
> the PyQt4.api.
> After installed the above I start receiveing the following messages
> after the splash:
>
> Warning: translation file 'eric4_pt_BR'could not be loaded.
> Using default.
> Warning: translation file 'qscintilla_pt_BR'could not be loaded.
> Using default.
> QVariant::load: unable to load type 36.
> QVariant::load: unable to load type 36.
> QVariant::load: unable to load type 36.
> QVariant::load: unable to load type 36.
> QVariant::load(QDataStream &s): type  unknown to QVariant.
>
> and eric  crashes (even had installed the
> eric4-4.3-snapshot-20081130). The Qt version is 4.4.0
>
> It this problem related or I have to open another thread ? I am
> running out of ideas to solve it.
>
> Tks in advance,
>
> --
> Joe Bertoli Pimentel
> joe.b.pimentel at gmail.com
>
> > 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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