[Scribus] 0.9.11.1 problem

[Franky Van Liedekerke]

On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 19:29:38 +0200
Franz Schmid <Franz.Schmid at altmuehlnet.de> wrote:

> 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?

It happened to me even when creating a new document in scribus. In the
same scribus session, playing around with opening-closing or
creating-closing (and a occasional page-down) made it happen.

Franky