[gentoo-amd64] Okular crashes opening every PDF

[gentoo-amd64] Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Mark Haney]

Must be my day for trouble.  Okular is crashing every time I try to open 
a PDF file.  Any PDF file.  I'm not getting a good backtrace to send 
with a bug report, but is anyone else seeing this problem?  Or is it 
just me?


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
48B410CE.5080103@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Aug 2008
10:18:54 -0400:

> Must be my day for trouble.  Okular is crashing every time I try to open
> a PDF file.  Any PDF file.  I'm not getting a good backtrace to send
> with a bug report, but is anyone else seeing this problem?  Or is it
> just me?

You've done a revdep-rebuild after your latest updates, right?  If not, 
it's probably that something's still linked to an old library that's no 
longer there, and needs rebuilt against the new one to function correctly.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Mark Haney]

Duncan wrote:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
> 48B410CE.5080103@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Aug 2008
> 10:18:54 -0400:
> 
>> Must be my day for trouble.  Okular is crashing every time I try to open
>> a PDF file.  Any PDF file.  I'm not getting a good backtrace to send
>> with a bug report, but is anyone else seeing this problem?  Or is it
>> just me?
> 
> You've done a revdep-rebuild after your latest updates, right?  If not, 
> it's probably that something's still linked to an old library that's no 
> longer there, and needs rebuilt against the new one to function correctly.
> 

Yeah, I've run it. but maybe I didn't get everything re-linked.  I may 
just call it a day and avoid touching anything else.


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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag, 26. August 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
> Duncan wrote:
> > "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
> > 48B410CE.5080103@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Aug 2008
> >
> > 10:18:54 -0400:
> >> Must be my day for trouble.  Okular is crashing every time I try to open
> >> a PDF file.  Any PDF file.  I'm not getting a good backtrace to send
> >> with a bug report, but is anyone else seeing this problem?  Or is it
> >> just me?
> >
> > You've done a revdep-rebuild after your latest updates, right?  If not,
> > it's probably that something's still linked to an old library that's no
> > longer there, and needs rebuilt against the new one to function
> > correctly.
>
> Yeah, I've run it. but maybe I didn't get everything re-linked.  I may
> just call it a day and avoid touching anything else.

just click on the details button and send the backtrace.

Probably you updated kdelibs to -r1. This won't trigger a revdep-rebuild. 
Rebuilding okular might help.

I had a crash with dolphin and previews. Rebuild strigi, kdelibs, dolphin. 
Problem gone.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
48B4151A.9050906@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Aug 2008
10:37:14 -0400:

> Yeah, I've run it. but maybe I didn't get everything re-linked.  I may
> just call it a day and avoid touching anything else.

You may need to reboot, too.  While Linux isn't as touchy here as MS was 
(from what I recall of it), it does occasionally seem to get old 
libraries stuck in memory that don't get reset until a reboot.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Okular crashes opening every PDF

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Dienstag, 26. August 2008, Duncan wrote:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
> 48B4151A.9050906@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Tue, 26 Aug 2008
>
> 10:37:14 -0400:
> > Yeah, I've run it. but maybe I didn't get everything re-linked.  I may
> > just call it a day and avoid touching anything else.
>
> You may need to reboot, too.  While Linux isn't as touchy here as MS was
> (from what I recall of it), it does occasionally seem to get old
> libraries stuck in memory that don't get reset until a reboot.

just stop X, drop caches, log in.