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0004383ScribusReleasespublic2006-10-20 07:48
Reporterdavideyre Assigned Toplinnell 
PrioritynormalSeveritycrashReproducibilityalways
Status closedResolutionunable to reproduce 
PlatformGNU/LinuxOSUbuntuOS VersionDapper Drake
Product Version1.3.3.4 
Summary0004383: Scrapbook use causes crash
DescriptionWhen items are dragged from Scrapbook onto page, Scribus crashes. Error display box appears, but does not display error number. Scribus then quits entirely.
Steps To ReproduceOpen page. Drag scrapbook item onto page.
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related to 0004423 closedcbradney Metabug: Ubuntu/Kubuntu issues that prevent it from being the perfect platform for Scribus 

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plinnell

2006-10-09 11:56

viewer   ~0012859

Cannot replicate it here on Suse 10.1

davideyre

2006-10-09 12:23

reporter   ~0012860

Ran Scribus in terminal:

Following error message appeared:

X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode: 148
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device

I have several elements in the Scrapbook. Picture bylines can be dragged and dropped without causing a crash. Modified text boxes cause crash 0000011.

Now replicated on two machines here.

fschmid

2006-10-09 12:45

administrator   ~0012861

Whats your OS and Qt version please?

davideyre

2006-10-09 13:12

reporter   ~0012863

OS Ubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06 LTS)
Qt3 3:3.3.6-1ubuntu6

Should I install Qt4?

fschmid

2006-10-09 13:54

administrator   ~0012865

No, don't install QT4 just for this, Scribus is for Qt3. But your bug is the next bug caused by Ubuntu's strange Qt package.

davideyre

2006-10-10 08:21

reporter   ~0012876

This bug also present in version 1.3.3.3.dfsg-2 on Dapper.

plinnell

2006-10-10 19:11

viewer   ~0012892

I installed Ubuntu last night and there are some very grave issues with the Ubuntu packaging of fonts, printing and Qt. I personally cannot recommend Dapper for any serious use of Scribus. There are odd issues with the way numbers work which make me fear that PDF export may be subtly broken too.

davideyre

2006-10-11 16:31

reporter   ~0012918

Have discovered a workaround. I've created a new Scrapbook, opened up pages from previous editions of the paper and basically rebuilt what was on the default Scrapbook. The new Scrapbook works fine. Default Scrapbook still causes crash signal 11.
We've been publishing a monthly 16pp newspaper using various versions of Scribus on Ubuntu Hoary and Breezy since December 2005. We had some bother at the start due to my inexperience in producing PDFs, but with Peter's help got around it. Since then the software has worked fine and the PDFs have been acceptable to our printer. This is the first time we've had a real problem.
I'll let you know if there are any PDF problems when I upload the files to our printers.

davideyre

2006-10-17 09:46

reporter   ~0013005

This edition printed fine. No problems at the printer.

mhanski

2006-10-17 12:48

developer   ~0013006

Last edited: 2006-10-17 13:07

<quote>I installed Ubuntu last night and there are some very grave issues with the Ubuntu packaging of fonts, printing and Qt. I personally cannot recommend Dapper for any serious use of Scribus. There are odd issues with the way numbers work which make me fear that PDF export may be subtly broken too.</quote>

Peter, this is a very strong statement which practically rules out this major distro as a potential Scribus platform. As a Kubuntu Dapper user for more than a year, I would be glad to know more details about the grave issues you've found out during these one night tests. Could you describe them all in one separate Ubuntu Dapper metabug within this bug tracker so that we can do something about it?

plinnell

2006-10-17 15:32

viewer   ~0013007

Hi Maciej,

Yep, I know you have been using it a while now and thanks to your wiki article it makes it usable. I'm not sure a metabug will help much, as the things I encountered are not fixable by us. :(

Even worse, it seems the Ubuntu devs are not too motivated to fix the problems - excepting Jon from Kubuntu.

I've been tempted to blog about it... That might catch some peoples attention.

mhanski

2006-10-17 15:50

developer   ~0013008

Last edited: 2006-10-17 15:55

Peter, don't blog, submit this Ubuntu metabug, please, since we (or I) will go through all the issues from the list one by one, check them, and file bugs on Ubuntu Bug Tracker. This Ubuntu metabug will be important for our users too, we'll have something to refere to in case of troubles, and we can use it to increase the pressure on Ubuntu makers.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2006-10-09 09:46 davideyre New Issue
2006-10-09 11:56 plinnell Note Added: 0012859
2006-10-09 12:23 davideyre Note Added: 0012860
2006-10-09 12:45 fschmid Note Added: 0012861
2006-10-09 13:12 davideyre Note Added: 0012863
2006-10-09 13:54 fschmid Note Added: 0012865
2006-10-10 08:21 davideyre Note Added: 0012876
2006-10-10 19:11 plinnell Note Added: 0012892
2006-10-11 16:31 davideyre Note Added: 0012918
2006-10-17 09:46 davideyre Note Added: 0013005
2006-10-17 12:48 mhanski Note Added: 0013006
2006-10-17 13:06 mhanski Note Edited: 0013006
2006-10-17 13:07 mhanski Note Edited: 0013006
2006-10-17 13:07 mhanski Note Edited: 0013006
2006-10-17 15:32 plinnell Note Added: 0013007
2006-10-17 15:50 mhanski Note Added: 0013008
2006-10-17 15:55 mhanski Note Edited: 0013008
2006-10-17 21:33 mhanski Relationship added related to 0004423
2006-10-17 23:59 plinnell Status new => resolved
2006-10-17 23:59 plinnell Resolution open => unable to reproduce
2006-10-17 23:59 plinnell Assigned To => plinnell
2006-10-20 07:47 plinnell Status resolved => closed