Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-20 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:04:11PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > > (KDE4 causing hard system lockups/freezes during console > > sessions, but not FreeNX sessions.) > > Hm I see. > My next hint would be try to disable the compositing of kwin (the window > manager), maybe it somehow detects it is ava

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle mercoledì 14 dicembre 2011, Michael Cree ha scritto: > Unfortunately qt4-x11 now FTBFS on Alpha (whereas it built in the > past). The following error is seen: > [...] > /build/buildd-qt4-x11_4.7.3-8+b1-alpha-SWrnkU/qt4-x11-4.7.3/include/Q > tCore/qstringlist.h:1:109: fatal error: > ../../../..

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Pino Toscano
Alle domenica 11 dicembre 2011, Bob Tracy ha scritto: > Thank you for your reply. Disabling nepomuk did not seem to have any > effect. In fact, with the 3.2-rc5 kernel, the lock-up happened even > more quickly. When starting KDE4, there's the splash screen and five > icons that fade-in from left

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-14 Thread Michael Cree
On 14/12/11 20:02, Michael Cree wrote: > We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 on Alpha. I have binNMU qt4-x11 to > rebuild with gcc-4.6. Unfortunately qt4-x11 now FTBFS on Alpha (whereas it built in the past). The following error is seen: make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd-qt4-x11_4.7.3-8+b1

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-13 Thread Bob Tracy
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 08:02:32PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > On 13/12/11 01:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > > Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of > > our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile > > exercise. > > We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 o

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Cree
On 13/12/11 01:58, Bob Tracy wrote: > Wonderful news concerning gcc/g++-4.6, and I think rebuilding several of > our (Alpha's) more "questionable" packages would be a worthwhile > exercise. We are now defaulting to gcc-4.6 on Alpha. I have binNMU qt4-x11 to rebuild with gcc-4.6. Are there any ot

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-12 Thread Bob Tracy
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:34:05PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > Bob, I've just recompiled iceweasel and icedove with gcc-4.6 and full > optimisation (other than --no-relax in the linker) and the crashes in > those two packages have disappeared. I am sending this message with > icedove from my A

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-12 Thread Michael Cree
On 12/12/11 02:58, Bob Tracy wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: If it's the virtuoso process to create issue, you can try disabling the semantic desktop (which uses the virtuoso DB): either you uninstall the virtuoso packages, or disable nepomuk for your user in

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-11 Thread Bob Tracy
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 08:03:46PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote: > If it's the virtuoso process to create issue, you can try disabling the > semantic desktop (which uses the virtuoso DB): either you uninstall the > virtuoso packages, or disable nepomuk for your user in a console with: > $ kwriteconf

Re: KDE4 testing on Alpha

2011-12-10 Thread Pino Toscano
Hi Bob, Alle venerdì 9 dicembre 2011, Bob Tracy ha scritto: > Armed with nearly three times the RAM I used to have, I screwed up my > courage and tried a plasma-desktop session on the console. It locked > up the machine as it did on all prior attempts, but now that the > machine isn't paging itse