Version: (using KDE 4.1.0) Installed from: Unlisted Binary Package OS: Linux when i lauch marble, it displays some stuff in the konsole. the last message being: ================================== Succesfully parsed file! Found 3 GeoNode object LEAKS! Entered selectTheme Select Theme: "earth/srtm/srtm.dgml" Stored: "earth/srtm/srtm.dgml" =================================== and then it uses 100% cpu and stays there with a grey (color of oxygen theme) window with nothing inside it not even a menu ! i use nvidia 173.14.09 on a 2.6.25.8-rt7 kernel. but i doubt it's the problem.
it's the same with vanilla 2.6.25 kernel from archlinux
Sounds like a packaging bug. I guess it can't find the tiles. Could you provide the whole console output? Torsten
Created attachment 26547 [details] the console output of marble
Thanks for the console output. Unfortunately I can't see anything that would be wrong with it. Could you try to move ~/.marble to ~/.marble_bak and move ~/.kde4/share/config/marblerc to ~/marblerc.bak while Marble is not running? After that please restart marble and tell us whether there has been any improvement. If this should fix the issue please send us the tarred up backed up configuration data (if it's of reasonable size, i.e. < 5MB).
~/.marble is empty ! $ find .marble/ .marble/ .marble/data and i even do not have a marblerc. i have tried with a different user and with nv driver instead of nvidia. still the same what is strange to me in the ouput console is QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory and QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/solstice/.marble/data/maps it seems it can't even create the maps directory ! if i create it manually. it's the same!
Created attachment 26551 [details] an strace ouput of marble it stays at the last writev and nothing is ouitputed by strace but it uses nonetheless 100%cpu, well only on one cpu....
> QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: > No such file or directory and > QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/solstice/.marble/data/maps That's a normal error message. Marble only creates the .marble directory later on. > but it uses nonetheless 100%cpu, How long did you try to leave it processing? Do you have a 64bit or a 32bit system? Given that Pierre wasn't able to reproduce the bug in the Archlinux Bugzilla I'm inclined to think that it's not a packaging bug.
I've got the same problem on Archlinux, kernel 2.6.25.11, nVidia driver 96.43.05
Hm, so this sounds like it's an issue that is specific to Archlinux (with possibly NVidia used in addition), as I haven't received any similar reports from other users yet (and I know some of them who have NVidia chipsets).
do not conclude too fast it's an archlinux only specific issue. it might be because we're one of the first distro to use kde 4.1 i am not denying it could be a archlinux only bug either ;-) i am trying to gather more information from archers. but it's not that easy. i am ignored most of the time... or nobody cares about marble
still the same problem with the latest nvidia driver 173.14.12
i just upgraded qt to 4.4.1 and it works. so qt might the culprit. (or may be nvidia but i am almost sure it was after qt upgrade than nvidia driver upgrade, that it began to work);
Great to hear! It would be nice to get more feedback on the issue if other people can confirm whether it was the newer Qt version or the nvidia driver.
I have only upgraded qt to 4.4.1 and marble indeed works now. So it was a fault of previous qt.