[cw-discuss] kbuildsycoca sigfault

[Ash-Fox at quickfox.org]

On Tuesday 11 December 2007 03:53:43 Julia Christianson wrote:
> I'm trying to install Crossover on a new Thinkpad, running Fedora 8
> with KDE.  Every time I install Crossover, I get an immediate error
> "The application kBuildSycoca crashed and caused the Signal 11
> (SIGSEGV)", and I continue to get that error on login, even after
> Crossover has been uninstalled.

kbuildsyscoca is used to update menus, mime settings among other things. My 
guess is that there is some corrupted file causing the probe for new mime 
settings, menu items to crash kbuildsyscoca

> New users created after the install 
> experience the same problem, as does root.  I've tried with both the
> Loki installer and the rpm.  I also experienced the same thing with
> CentOS on this computer, though I only did that once so I'm not so
> sure of the order of events ... but I've installed Crossover under
> CentOS on desktops several times without any problem.
>

Sounds like something crossover is generating is unliked...

> I've googled and come up with nothing.  Does this sound familiar to
> anyone?
>
I can only say that this does not happen on Debian, Kubuntu or Mandriva.

~Ash-Fox