Re: [gentoo-user] KAlarm now broken -- suffers many SIGFPE alarms

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Yep, that did it.  Kalarm is now happy and behaving itself.

Thanks, Jesse.

++ kevin

On 6/8/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote:
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>
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> On 6/8/06, Jesse Hannah <jesse.hannah@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >
> > > It doesn't die.  And it usually doesn't do it when I'm around, but
> > when I
> > > come
> > > back to my system in the morning there are usually 200 or so crash
> > dialogs
> > > waiting for me, all indicating the application suffered a SIGFPE
> > (floating
> > > point error?).  But it keeps on working anyway.
> > >
> > > Am I alone with this?
> > >
> > > ++ kevin
> > >
> >
> > Probably not, depends on the version of KAlarm that you're using. But
> > more
> > likely than anything else is that something didn't quite compile right
> > when
> > you were emerging whatever KAlarm's parent package (kdepim?) is. I've
> > had
> > that happen with other things such as xine-lib, and I've discovered that
> > if
> > something keeps crashing re-emerging it (or its parent package, in
> > KAlarm's
> > case) usually fixes the problem. And, a SIGFPE is the sort of thing that
> > a
> > build problem would be the cause of.
> >
> > General rule of thumb: If it crashes, rebuild it. :D
> >
> > --
> > Jesse Hannah
>
>
> That sounds like really good advice, so I investigated a bit.  There
> indeed
> seems some sort of conflict between kdepim and kalarm.  There's something
> familiar about the pattern of "blocking" I saw with "emerge -pe kalarmkdepim"
> that made me try unmerging both of them first .  I'm doing a new emerge
> --oneshot now.   Wish me luck.  Maybe my list of alarms will survive?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>



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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD