[Scribus] 0.9.11.1 problem

[Franz Schmid]

Franky Van Liedekerke wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:26:28 +0200
> Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 14:01:19 +0200
>>Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I just finished installing all updates (redhat 9.0 on atlon pc), and
>>>I' still having this problem. It doesn't happen all the time, but only
>>>sometimes when you open a document (either existing or new), not when
>>>you start scribus or work in a doc that has been successfully opened.
>>>I see then that the X server starts to consume all available memory
>>>(this rendering the system almost unusable), but killing scribus
>>>solves the problem and brings everything back to normal. Here's the
>>>latest part of a scribus trace:
>>>
>>>select(6, [3 4 5], [], [], {1, 670000}) = 0 (Timeout)
>>>gettimeofday({1056196699, 114809}, NULL) = 0
>>>ioctl(3, FIONREAD, [0])                 = 0
>>>select(6, [3 4 5], [], [], NULL <unfinished ...>
>>
>>I just found that qt-3.1.2 is recommended, and redhat officially only
>>distributes qt-3.1.1, so now I'm downloading from one of the kde sites
>>the stable redhat 9 qt rpms, and will let you know the result.
> 
> 
> For the moment the upgrade seems to have fixed the Xserver going berzerk,
> I'll keep you posted.
> Although I must say it's kind of weird that you need to install rpm's not
> even officially released for a distro in order to get a stable running
> program. For me this is not a problem to do, but I'm guessing that
> unexperienced linux users could get scared away by this.
> For the rest: I'm still loving this program, keep up to good work!
Do you have any small file that produces that error in a reproduceable way?
If so, can you send it to me?

Best Regards,
Franz Schmid