More ibex probs. Re: [Eric] Won't start

[Alex Mandel]

Alex Mandel wrote:
> Tim Rue wrote:
>> Tim Rue wrote:
>>> Alex Mandel wrote:
>>>> Well good news, it's not eric.
>>>> Something is wrong with qt4 on ubuntu intrepid.
>>>>
>>>> I'll post when I find the answer.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Alex
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>
>>> For me, after an ibex upgrade, the eric4 splash screen will come up
>>> and after some loading it will vanish but nothing happens.
>>> the following is reported.  I can still run eric3, and it seems to run
>>> ok. Tim
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 2008-11-01, 13:55:52
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>:
>>> argument 1 of QsciScintilla() has an invalid type
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 238, in
>>> <module>
>>>    main()
>>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/eric4/eric4.py", line 235, in
>>> main
>>>    raise err
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Version Numbers:
>>>  Python 2.5.2
>>>  Qt 4.4.3
>>>  PyQt4 4.4.3
>>>  sip 4.7.7
>>>  QScintilla 2.2
>>>  eric4 4.2.2a (r2553)
>>>
>>> Platform: linux2
>>> 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct  5 2008, 19:24:49)
>>> [GCC 4.3.2]
>>>
>> to follow up, I don't recommend upgrading to ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex
>>
>> I had so many persistent problems with it that I decided to  downgrade
>> back to 8.04 LTS .....8.04.1 actually. In my efforts to do so I found
>> several others wanting to do the same.
>>
>> Its said that downgrading is not supported but what I did and learned to
>> do, is to backup the home directory (which I have as a separate
>> partition) and upon deciding to downgrade, you really just reinstall the
>> earlier OS completely over writing the newer one. And then copy back the
>> home backup selectively as it has all your configurations and such in
>> it. you might backup the /root user directory too.
>>
>> Of course this means you have to re-install everything that is not a
>> part of the default install. But I will tell anyone that its easier than
>> doing so on a windows machine as the home directory has all your config
>> settings and email, browser bookmarks, etc...
>>
>> Anyway, although I have the eric3&4 configs I still have to uninstall
>> the version I got from the repositories and of course go through
>> reinstallation of eric 4 and maybe 3.
>>
>> On the positive side I have something of a cleaner system than I had
>> over the past upgrades history.
>> Now if I can remember the tweeks I did.... printer driver, scanner
>> driver, etc... _______________________________________________
> 
> I had a similar experience back with I think 6.10, and should have
> learned my lesson, it takes a couple of weeks for the odds and ends to
> get patched due to the limited variety of test machines. Since nothing
> major is broken I think I'll wait it out for the patches although the
> above described revert would work.
> 
> I'll post when it's seems to all be fixed.
> 
> Alex
> 

I believe we found the problem (QGIS developers and I) in the qt3 dev
and uim packages. Note this problem at least for me effected, QGIS,
Konqueror, Eric among others. So if you upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
make sure to drop those packages.

Alex