[arch-general] Qsynth crashes when clicking on buttons (Don't Panic)

[charly]

If it works with qt-mod and not arch-provided qt, let us know cause maybe 
there's a problem with our binary


On Wednesday 05 March 2008 21:06:48 Denis Alessandro Altoe Falqueto wrote:
> Hi Nigel.
>
> I think you are using the default KDE from Arch. I strongly recommend
> KDEmod (http://kdemod.ath.cx/), a tweaked version of KDE made by
> community volunteers (brave ones, at that). This is the project that
> ships qtmod, as it is patched for some features not in the default
> arch's qt package. It is very flexible, as only what you need is
> actually installed and there are some very cool extra patches. So, if
> you are using dialup connection, it is even more usefull.
>
> HTH.
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb2m97pp at aliceadsl.fr> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:19, charly wrote:
> >  > Hi,
> >  >
> >  > All works fine here.
> >  > I've got the locale warning also, but no segfault.
> >  > Im using qtmod-4.3.3 from kdemod. You could check if it works with
> >  > this patched version of qt.
> >  >
> >  > Regards,
> >  >
> >  > Charly
> >
> >  Hi Charly. Have you got a link as to where I get this patched version of
> > qt? I'm downloading a load of KDE updates at the mo (on dialup), so will
> > have to go for this tomorrow, and see if it works.
> >
> >  Thanks for the feedback.
> >
> >  Nigel.
> >
> >  > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 20:06:13 Nigel Henry wrote:
> >  > > Hi Folks.
> >  > >
> >  > > When I open Qsynth, I can rotate the various controls, but clicking
> >  > > on any of the buttons causes it to crash. For example I click on the
> >  > > "Options" button, the options window opens momentarily, but is
> >  > > blank, then Qsynth goes out to lunch.
> >  > >
> >  > > When Qsynth is opened without messing with the buttons, Qjackctl
> >  > > shows fluidsynth available as an input port, so that bit is working
> >  > > ok.
> >  > >
> >  > > Starting Qsynth on the CLI gives me this output, see below.
> >  > > [djmons at myhost ~]$ qsynth
> >  > > Warning: no locale found: /usr/share/locale/qsynth_en_US.qm
> >  > > Segmentation fault
> >  > > [djmons at myhost ~]$
> >  > >
> >  > > I'm totally clueless about locales, but could this be the problem?
> >  > > Looking in /usr/share/locale there is no en_US locale. There are a
> >  > > bunch of en locales though (en, en at boldquot, en at quot, en_CA, en_GB)
> >  > >
> >  > > Looking at when I started Qsynth on the CLI as above, it shows a
> >  > > segfault, but the GUI for Qsynth is still showing. It's only when I
> >  > > click on a button that it crashes.
> >  > >
> >  > > Can anyone confirm that they have Qsynth working as expected?
> >  > >
> >  > > I don't want to post a bug report if this problem has something to
> >  > > do with locales on my install.
> >  > >
> >  > > Thanks for any help on this problem.
> >  > >
> >  > > Nigel.