So yesterday I recompiled the entire system with gcc 4.4.0. Great. Only a couple packages failed to compile after minimal tweaks (usually simply just retrying, I think a few packages may not have full dependencies so they wouldn't build until further along in the rebuild cycle).
But, kde/konqueror 3.5.10 now likes to die unexpectedly rendering some URLs. It'll launch, I can see the download dialog, then the konqueror window appears briefly, then dies. Clicking the same link (in knewsticker) will try again. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, same link. Some sites (like /.) are much worse than others, with some loading without issue most or all the time while others (like /.) I must click the knewsticker link 2-4 times to get it to load, for nearly every link. It's not the feedburner redirect either, as once I do get a troublesome page loaded and thus have the URL to the page itself, I can try loading that again and get crashes too. In addition, sometimes a link clicked within konqueror will crash it. Again, it seems to be the actual rendering, after it has the new page. But this doesn't seem to be quite as frequent as the initial-click issue. I tried loading konqueror (with a troublesome link) from a konsole window, to see if it spit out anything informative on STDOUT/STDERR as it crashed, no luck. It still crashes most of the time on troublesome links, but without spitting out anything informative as its dying. I suspect gcc 4.4 compiled something wrong, but before I start trying to recompile various bits (kdebase, libkonqueror, konqueror, maybe others) I thought I'd ask to see if there are other KDE 3.5 users who've tried gcc 4.4 compiles on their entire system, and if they're seeing similar issues or not. It's not too bad as I can always load iceweasel, or KDE 4.2's konqueror tho the latter still tends to screw kde3's ksycoca database until I rebuild it again, but it's irritating as kde3 and its konqueror remain my primary desktop and browser. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
