[rkward-devel] RKward Crash while updating CRAN packages

[Aaron Sheldon]

An additional work around:

Clicking on the individual packages and then clicking the Apply button does 
not result in a crash.

-- 
Aaron Sheldon

Graduate Student
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Calgary

sheldona at ucalgary.ca
On May 4, 2012 02:40:24 PM Aaron Sheldon wrote:
> Sucks this is the first message I post to this list. I did want to float 
> volunteering to write a plug-in/wizard for survival analysis. Oh well, here 
is 
> the mostly unhelpful details:
> 
> Application: rkward (0.5.7)
> KDE Platform Version: 4.8.2 (4.8.2)
> Qt Version: 4.8.1
> Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
> Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> 
> Steps to reproduce:
> 
> 1. Run kdesudo rkward from konsole
> 2. Open the update CRAN packages dialogue
> 3. Click on Select All Updates
> 
> Result:
> 
> Hard crash
> 
> Expected Result
> 
> 1. Check marks in all packages that can be updated
> 
> Stack trace:
> 
> #6  0x00007eff1ab0f8b3 in QString::operator== (this=0x7efef45e1d08, 
other=...) 
> at tools/qstring.cpp:2192
> #7  0x00000000004879cb in _start ()
> 
> This latest round of updates to Qt pushed with Kubuntu 12.04 seems to be 
> especially flaky, so this might not be a pure RKward bug, but rather a bad Qt 
> library.
> 
>