kde-base/arts-3.5.5 crashes on startup with the error message "bus error" on an ultrasparc machine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "artsd" in commandline Actual Results: The error message "bus error" appears, the program terminates Expected Results: artsd should fork into background and keep running The crash happens with artsd -a alsa, artsd -a oss, artsd -a none, artsd -A, but not with artsd -h $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 May 2007 12:30:10 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.19.2-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en de" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aiglx alsa arts audiofile bitmap-fonts bzip2 cddb cli cracklib crypt cups doc dri encode fam flac fortran ftp gdbm gif gpm iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k libg++ midi mp3 musepack nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pcre pdf png ppds pppd qt3 reflection sdl session sparc speex spell spl ssl theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode vorbis x264 xcomposite xinerama xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="sunffb fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
As the KDE team has little interest on ARTS and there's little that can be done by downstream, I suggest you take this to KDE. If you open a bug there about this issue, please leave a link here.
