Re: Re: [kde-sunset] kmail-3.5.10 crashes

On 8 July 2010 21:16, Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nicholas Robbins posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:09:24 -0700 as excerpted:
>
>> Just a me-too message. I recently started having these crashes as well.
>> They started about when I upgraded to libpng1.4.
>
> Ugh.  Sounds like you still have the earlier version, and some library
> using it, while another pulls in the new version, with both used by kmail,
> so it's pulling in both versions into the same executable, and that's a
> certain recipe for disaster, or at least crashes.
>
> I take it you've completed a revdep-rebuild and running it now comes up
> clean?  Do you run with as-needed in your ldflags?  That will certainly
> help, as will having lafilefixer in your portage post-install hooked
> routines.  (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you may want to read
> up on flameeyes' blog... the mentioned tricks can definitely save you a
> **LOT** of trouble.)
>
> What about depclean?  Do you use it regularly?
>
> If you're not doing that sort of stuff routinely, it may be that a
> complete emerge --emptytree world is needed to get the cruft cleaned out,
> but before you go to that trouble, I'd suggest setting up as-needed in
> your ldflags, lafilefixer in your post-install, doing a --depclean --
> pretend and adding to world what you don't want removed, and consider
> setting FEATURES=buildpkg, before you do the rebuild, so that when you're
> done, you'll have the full world built cleanly with those options, and
> binpkg backups for every package, as well.  After that it should be MUCH
> easier to keep up with routine maintenance, always doing a revdep-rebuild
> and a depclean (I always use ask, to see what it's going to do, before
> letting it go ahead, for both of these), after every update or package
> removal.
>
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>
>

Do none of these kmail crashes produce a crash dump or backtrace?  If
it is the png issue, it's pretty easy to spot from a crash dump in my
experience.
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