[PyKDE] QwidgetFactory.create() SIGSEGV in latest SIP/PyQt

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 01 April 2006 1:32 pm, Michal Křenek wrote:
> Hello,
> after upgrade to SIP 4.4 and PyQt  3.16, all my PyQT programs which uses
> QwidgetFactory stopped to work. If I call
> QWidgetFactory.create("some_form.ui") from qtui module, I get SIGSEGV and
> Python is killed instantly.
>
> I have tried gdb, but my system is compiled without debugging symbols (and
> I don't have time to recompile it with debugging symbols), so it is not
> very helpful:
>
> (no debugging symbols found)
>  .....
>  .....
>  (no debugging symbols found)
>
>  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>  [Switching to Thread -1211967808 (LWP 19040)]
>  0xb7f92531 in initsip () from /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/sip.so
>
> I have used SIP 4.3.2 and PyQt 3.15.1 before and QwidgetFactory had worked
> without problems. Btw. I am using Qt 3.3.6.

Try with the current SIP snapshot (you don't need to rebuild PyQt). If you 
still have a problem then send me a small, but complete, example.

Phil