Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.10 and plasma crashing

[Nilesh Govindrajan <me@nileshgr.com>]

On Saturday 09 February 2013 08:17:44 AM IST, Dale wrote:
> Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:23:55PM -0600, Dale wrote:
> >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:39:51 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Mike posted a bug number. I guess it doesn't hit everyone but it did
> >>>> me. Is anyone that knows me surprised that this bug hit me? :-)
> >>>
> >>> If affected my laptop but not my desktop. Re-emerging qt-core with
> >>> -Os in CFLAGS instead of -O2 "fixes" it.
> >>
> >> I think I am going to go back to KDE 4.9 for now. They are working on
> >> it. It appears that gcc is the real problem tho. So, I may just
> >> upgrade it and see what it breaks. lol Come to think of it, I may
> >> already have a newer one installed. Its been a while since I switched
> >> gcc versions. Hmmm, going to test this. ;-)
> >
> > I just went the least way of resistance and built qt-core with -Os.
> It solved
> > the problem for me, too¹.
> >
> > Even if my machine had the power to emerge -eD world, that doesn’t
> mean I
> > should do this all the time, just because it might solve a problem
> (with a big
> > MIGHT). Electricity isn’t as clean as in Captain Picard’s days just
> yet. ;-)
> >
> > ¹ had -O2 as well, latest stable gcc 4.6.3
>
> Actually, according to the bug report, that may not fix it for
> everyone.  So, there is a chance that may not work.  The thinking was
> it was something to do with gcc.  Then someone posted that it wasn't
> gcc but something else.  I just don't want to use something that I
> know has issues and *could* cause problems I am not aware of.
>
> My easy way to to remove the package.keyword file for KDE 4.10 and
> just emerge -uvk world.  I keep binaries just for when this sort of
> things happens.  It's been a good long while since this has happenend
> with a KDE upgrade but I'm glad I had them.  5 to 10 minutes and I am
> back to a working system.  The devs will have this fixed in the next
> couple days if it is not fixed upstream already.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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>

Dale, which version of GCC are you using? I'm on 4.7.2, updating KDE 
now, will report back after a few hours when it's done.

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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