[bt-devel] Qt versions and Hardy Backport of Bibletime 2.0

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 21:07 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 01:22 -0700, Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> > Wolfgang Stradner E wrote:
> > 
> > > So if it is too complicated to provide packages for the actuel LTS
> > > versions of Linux (8.04), perhaps this can be done in the future. I
> > > suppose that Ubuntu 10.04 could be the next LTS candidate, or what do
> > > you think?
> > 
> > Following Gary's tip about Qt 4.4.x being in hardy-backports already,
> > and fiddling with our PPAs so they use *-backports, and then wrestling a
> > bit with what versions of things we really truly *need* ... it builds!
> > 
> > Both bibledit 3.7 and bibletime 2.0 for Hardy are building in the main
> > Crosswire PPA now, and should be downloadable from there in under an hour.
> > 
> > NOTE: You will need to enable the hardy-backports repo in your
> > /etc/apt/sources.list file and update ( sudo apt-get update ) before you
> > will be able to install bibletime (and perhaps also bibledit).
> > 
> > Please let me know if these actually work for you :)
> <snip>
> Alas, it fails on my fully patched Ubuntu 8.0.4 on amd64 installation.
> With eager anticipation to finally use my Bibletime again after the 64
> bit problem in the personal commentary kept me away for a few years, I
> installed the crosswire ppa and enabled hardy backports.
> 
> I then upgraded Bibletime and Sword.  On Bibletime's first start, it
> detected a KDE 3 configuration and offered to import to which I said yes
> (I am still running KDE 3.5).  Then nothing.  I tried from the command
> line and it generated a segmentation fault.  I rebooted just in case and
> started Bibletime from the command line.  Again, segmentation fault - no
> additional information.
> 
> Any idea what I need to do to get my beloved Bibletime working at last?
> Thanks - John

Here's the end of an strace in case it helps:

lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 899
read(10, "About=This is the King James Ver"..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 1153, SEEK_SET)               = 1153
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 1153
read(10, "dation: http://www.bf.org.  The "..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 1407, SEEK_SET)               = 1407
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 1407
read(10, " numbers.\\par\\par Special thanks"..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 1661, SEEK_SET)               = 1661
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 1661
read(10, "obinson for providing the base G"..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 1915, SEEK_SET)               = 1915
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 1915
read(10, "he Body of Christ is a great ble"..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 2169, SEEK_SET)               = 2169
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2169
read(10, "ht be obtained for this effort i"..., 254) = 254
lseek(10, 2423, SEEK_SET)               = 2423
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2423
read(10, "Society\\par        kjv2003 at cross"..., 254) = 219
lseek(10, 2500, SEEK_SET)               = 2500
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2500
read(10, "TextSource=bf.org, eBible.org, c"..., 254) = 142
lseek(10, 2545, SEEK_SET)               = 2545
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2545
read(10, "LCSH=Bible. English.\nDistributio"..., 254) = 97
lseek(10, 2566, SEEK_SET)               = 2566
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2566
read(10, "DistributionLicense=General publ"..., 254) = 76
lseek(10, 2642, SEEK_SET)               = 2642
lseek(10, 0, SEEK_CUR)                  = 2642
read(10, "", 254)                       = 0
close(10)                               = 0
getdents(9, /* 0 entries */, 4096)      = 0
close(9)                                = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

-- 
John A. Sullivan III
Open Source Development Corporation

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