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

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

[Jesse Hannah]

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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

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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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On 6/8/06, Jesse Hannah <jesse.hannah@gmail.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 kalarm
kdepim"
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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Re: [gentoo-user] KAlarm now broken -- suffers many SIGFPE alarms

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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

Thanks, Jesse.

++ kevin

On 6/8/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 6/8/06, Jesse Hannah <jesse.hannah@gmail.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
>



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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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

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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