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| author | Chris Moore <dooglus@gmail.com> | 2011-10-24 16:21:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Chris Moore <dooglus@gmail.com> | 2011-10-24 20:38:46 -0700 |
| commit | 6c33ec404530419ef78d075be92cf0408323bf84 (patch) | |
| tree | 1ab8dd3c86bc37778c7601c360d91c28d300af2e | |
| parent | f9f289aba52c0a7b3453622604bbcb5293c96bb6 (diff) | |
Warn about the qt-at-spi bug in Ubuntu 11.10.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/readme-qt.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/readme-qt.rst b/doc/readme-qt.rst index b7f0d2c1f8..321f9b8302 100644 --- a/doc/readme-qt.rst +++ b/doc/readme-qt.rst @@ -160,3 +160,19 @@ and 4.X cannot open the new format. This means that you cannot go back to the ol significant hassle! .. _`this Debian issue`: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621425 + +Ubuntu 11.10 warning +==================== + +Ubuntu 11.10 has a package called 'qt-at-spi' installed by default. At the time of writing, having that package +installed causes bitcoin-qt to crash intermittently. The issue has been reported as `launchpad bug 857790`_, but +isn't yet fixed. + +Until the bug is fixed, you can remove the qt-at-spi package to work around the problem, though this will presumably +disable screen reader functionality for Qt apps: + +:: + + sudo apt-get remove qt-at-spi + +.. _`launchpad bug 857790`: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt-at-spi/+bug/857790 |