Qtopia post-mortem

[Aaron Sowry]

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 14:05 -0400, John Sullivan wrote:
> Aaron Sowry <aaron at aeneby.com> writes:
> 
> > Aaron Sowry wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have just now flashed my Freerunner with today's [August 5th] uboot and the latest 
> >> Qtopia uImage and rootfs available from their website. After flashing it 
> >> boots up fine, and I run 'opkg update' followed by 'opkg upgrade' which 
> >> results in a lengthy process but seems to complete successfully. 
> >>
> >> After a reboot, everything seems to go fine right up until the point 
> >> which the Qtopia GUI tries to load....
> >
> > I'm going to continue this issue under a more descriptive heading 
> > because it is a reproducible bug. Running the qpe process directly 
> > (bypassing the init script which gets stuck in a rather uninformative 
> > infinite loop) results in the following error:
> >
> > qpe: symbol lookup error: /opt/Qtopia/lib/libqtopiapim.so.4: undefined 
> > symbol: _ZN11QListWidget9dropEventEP10QDropEvent
> >
> > I'm going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that this seems to 
> > be some kind of ABI breakage caused by an upgrade to some package, but I 
> > have no idea which one. I will peruse the source and see if I can narrow 
> > it down.
> >
> > In the meantime has anyone done an 'opkg upgrade' on their Qtopia image 
> > recently without it breaking like this? Conversely, has anyone else 
> > experienced the same thing and can confirm it's not just me doing 
> > something dumb?
> 
> I'm having the same issue after the upgrade.
> 

See http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1756

Aaron