[Eric] Using PyQt snapshots, eric crashes when launched from the kde start menu

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Samstag, 11. April 2009, Darren Dale wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to keep up with the sip/pyqt/qscintilla snapshots
> (installed on up-to-date kubuntu jaunty prerelease). There have been a few
> issues trying to run eric in this environment, but it looks like they have
> been mostly addressed in subsequent snapshots from riverbank.
>
> There is one issue I am seeing this morning with the latest snapshots that
> I am not sure how to investigate. If I start eric from the command prompt,
> it launches successfully. If I make an entry in the kde start menu and
> launch eric from there, it crashes. I can choose "Run in terminal" as an
> option for the menu entry, and the output is simply "Warning: Program
> '/usr/local/bin/eric4' crashed." I thought I could get more information
> about the crash if I edited the menu command to be "eric4 --debug", but
> when I do so, eric doesnt crash! I get this debugging output during
> startup:
>
> DEBUG:root:Importing packages...
> DEBUG:root:Generating Main Window...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Plugin Manager...
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
> DEBUG:root:Generating Main User Interface...
> DEBUG:root:Setting up connections...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Tools...
> DEBUG:root:Registering Objects...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Actions...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Menus...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Toolbars...
> DEBUG:root:Initializing Statusbar...
> DEBUG:root:Activating Plugins...
> DEBUG:root:Restoring Toolbarmanager...
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
> DEBUG:root:Config Dir: None; exists: False
>
> Can anyone suggest a next step?
>
> Thanks,
> Darren

You could try compile sip/pyqt/qscintilla with debugging symbols and start 
eric4 in a debugger like kdbg. If it crashes, you will see in which file it 
fails.

Detlev
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