konq-e won't start when $QTDIR is set

[Simon Hausmann]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 08:37:44AM +0100, Pope - Undersec Security Team wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> During the last days I've been posting messages in the opie mailing list 
> (opie@handhelds.org) complaining that konqueror refused to run in my system. 
> I've been a Familiar user for about a year now, and this was the first time I 
> came up to such problem.
> 
> I have two iPAQs (3660 and 3760), both were installed with Familiar 0.6.1 and 
> OPIE 2 weeks ago, and later upgraded to familiar unstable and opie unstable. 
> Well, I installed konqueror (20020311_hh1) and in both of them it won't run 
> (segfault) UNLESS you run it via a ssh session. I looked at the environment 
> variables that were declared in the ssh session and in an embeddedkonsole 
> session, and trying one by one I came up to QTDIR. If I unset it in the 
> embeddedkonsole, launching konqueror is OK, but if I set this variable (to 
> whatever value), konq. segfaults.

Are you sure that you needed the unset it? It's actually the other
way around, Qt/Embedded refuses to initialize if QTDIR isn't set
(properly) .


Simon