[Eric] Re: Eric crashes on winxp

[Detlev Offenbach]

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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