Re: [gentoo-user] fcitx crash----something to do with libpng & cairo?

[Erick Guan]

check your ~/.config/fcitx/log if you are sure fcitx crashed. Feel free to
talk at irc #fcitx


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Jackie <jiangjun12321@×××××.com> wrote:

> 在 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:47:56 +0800，Wang Xuerui <idontknw.wang@×××××.com>
> 写道:
>
>
>  2013/4/13 Jackie <jiangjun12321@×××××.com>:
>>
>>> I am use fcitx for Chinese & after updating few packages today,fcitx just
>>> crash on startup and won't work even I start it in a terminal.I searched
>>> through Internet and figured it that this may have some thing to do with
>>> update libpng and cairo.One way out,however,may be just downgrade libpng
>>> &
>>> cairo,which seem to involve tons of recompilation of related packages(got
>>> that after mask the update & emerge libpng cairo -pv). So,anyone met
>>> this &
>>> got a better solution?
>>> BTY,using fcitx 4.2.7,libpng-1.6.1:0/16 and cairo-1.12.14. HELP ME OUT:(
>>>
>>>
>> I'm also a fcitx user, but my box has the stable versions of libpng
>> and cairo as I checked just now. So I suppose your crashes are related
>> to the ~KEYWORDed dependencies.
>>
>> If you have enough free time, you may try to debug the crash with gdb
>> and report the issue to upstream... this way the developers will know
>> about the breakage and come up with a patch, which benefits other
>> fcitx users running ~KEYWORD systems as well.
>>
>>  Sorry for my poor English:(
> But I am afraid that I'm not capable of fixing it myself due to my
> familiarity with Gentoo and debuging a program.Tried to downgrade libpng &
> cairo today but no luck.The downgrade seems to result in a slot,caused by
> kdelibs and other packages dependencies & I doubt whether it is a
> solution.I've here got the snapshot of the infomation got after masking
> libpng-1.6.1 & cairo-1.12.14.Hell No!




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Erick Guan/管啸 (fantasticfears)