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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Everthing segfaults!!!
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-05-25 23:58:23
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Dan Pilone wrote:
> > 
> > Previously written in blue crayon:
> >  > Everything segfaults during KApplication constructor.
> >  > Looks like somewhere in KConfig (Preston?).
> >  > The silence worries me - I'm not alone here am I?
> > 
> >         No, you're not alone.  That's the problem I'm having with
> > running KDE 2.0 on IRIX.  Here's what I got.. (thanks to Stephan's
> > great tip.. :)  )  In KApplication::init() it tries to read some
> > config entries, well, KConfigbase checks to see if the local is set.
> > It's not, so it eventually ends up calling KLocale::KLocale(QString).
> > KLocale then tries to determine the locale, and tries to read some
> > entries from KConfig.. which then initializes KLocale.. ad
> > infinitum.. you end up segfaulting in new() after a little griding and
> > churning.
> >         Should I try and find a fix? -- Dan
> 
> My personal believe is that KApplication's constructor shouldn't use
> KConfig. What does it use it for anyway?
>

Uhm, well color groups and fonts are a good example ;-)
 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
> -- 
> As long as Linux remains a religion of freeware fanatics,
> Microsoft have nothing to worry about.  
>                        By Michael Surkan, PC Week Online
--
Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
mosfet@kde.org
mosfet@jorsm.com

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