Bug 76770 – Qalculate-gtk does not run (fully), takes all of CPU

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

[Description Andrew Conkling 2005-01-05 08:02:07 UTC]

I have emerged qalculate-gtk but it will not run usably; the interface is presented but none of the buttons/menus work and the process takes all of the CPU.

I've thought about recompiling with lower CFLAGS, but I don't know which package (including dependencies) might be at fault.

Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1300MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acl acpi alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib cdr crypt directfb dvd encode fam fbcon gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mmx mpeg ncurses nls opengl pam pdflib perl png readline samba sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd truetype unicode x86 xml2 xpm xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-06 01:30:21 UTC]

Please give qalculate-0.7.1 a try. If there's trouble with old qalculate-gtk we should perhaps mark the new one stable, even if not much tested. Please give it a try and report.

[Comment 2 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-06 06:31:25 UTC]

Maybe the test-request status fits better here...

[Comment 3 Andrew Conkling 2005-01-06 18:32:54 UTC]

Well, qalculate works now, but the problem remains if I try to update the exchange rates (which it asks on the first time).  But that only happens if I try it in the GTK version; if I do it in the command line version, it updates fine.

My guess is that the older version tried to update exchange rates automatically and that that was a problem.  At this point, I'm assuming the problem is upstream?  Can anyone confirm?

(I'm not marking this verified as I left it requesting a test. ;)

[Comment 4 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-07 01:17:59 UTC]

Works fine for me in the gtk version. The output in the terminal from where I started it looks like it's using wget. Do you get something there when you try to update?

strace -o log -f qalculate-gtk could also be helpful.

[Comment 5 Andrew Conkling 2005-01-07 21:23:03 UTC]

Created attachment 47915 [details]
Qalculate log from strace

I'm not sure how this will be helpful, but here's the entire thing, up until I
killed the process.

[Comment 6 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-01-09 23:17:21 UTC]

Very strange. Perhaps there's a broken file from an older version around? Please rm -rf ~/.qalculate* and try again.

[Comment 7 Andrew Conkling 2005-01-10 12:38:08 UTC]

Nope, same deal.  So CFLAGS are not the issue?

[Comment 8 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2005-03-10 12:45:14 UTC]

This is not exactly resolved... re-opening.

[Comment 9 Olivier Fisette (RETIRED) 2005-06-05 05:58:23 UTC]

I'll make new ebuilds for libqalculate, qalculate-gtk and qalculate-kde today 
(version 0.8). Once they are in Portage, maybe you could check if the bug is 
still there? 

[Comment 10 Olivier Fisette (RETIRED) 2005-08-13 11:19:02 UTC]

No feedback, and no one else has ever had this problem, as far as I can tell. 

[Comment 11 Andrew Conkling 2005-08-13 18:46:09 UTC]

...And I'm not on Gentoo anymore.  I will say though... I appreciate that y'all 
are diligent about not letting bug reports just sit there indefinitely.  Kudos.