[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#603986: qgis crashes on startup on PowerPC

[Steve Singer]

On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Michel Dänzer wrote:

> On Son, 2010-12-19 at 22:29 +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>>
> I think a good next step would be to resolve why rebuilding packages
> locally seems to work around the problem for Steve but not for you.
> Which package(s) exactly are you each rebuilding locally and installing
> from the local build? In particular, the *_all.deb ones as well or only
> the *_powerpc.deb ones? If the answer is 'both' for Steve and 'only the
> latter' for Hideki-san, the problem is most likely an endianness issue
> related to the database it's trying to load when it crashes.

I am building+installing *all* deb packages.
ls -l *deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger 2145258 Dec  3 23:24 
libqgis1.4.0_1.4.0+12730-3_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger  178540 Dec  3 23:24 
libqgis-dev_1.4.0+12730-3_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger  650388 Dec  3 23:24 
python-qgis_1.4.0+12730-3_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger  684208 Dec  3 23:24 
python-qgis-common_1.4.0+12730-3_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger 3913326 Dec  3 23:24 
qgis_1.4.0+12730-3_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger 4263616 Dec  3 23:24 
qgis-common_1.4.0+12730-3_all.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger 1239776 Dec  3 23:24 
qgis-plugin-grass_1.4.0+12730-3_powerpc.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ssinger ssinger  804382 Dec  3 23:24 
qgis-plugin-grass-common_1.4.0+12730-3_all.deb

To the best of my knowledge these are the only packages I've locally built 
+installed on the system.

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