Beta Testers for Sigil-2.3.0 Needed - Page 3

KevinH · Today, 06:53 AM

Hmm, are you sure it is a "crash" because typically a real segfault or abort can not be "caught" by Sigil at all, the program just exits immediately with no chance to save?

Was there a specific error message that is provided?

Windows Qt goes have a bug that goes back a long long way where trying to delete or rename a file, causes problems when MD (or some other anti-virus program) has grabbed control of it and is still trying to "analyze" the file and will not allow you to delete, rename, of change it in any way causing an exception that can be caught by Sigil but results in Sigil saying it has to close.

My guess is this is what you are seeing. We try to workaround this by retrying the delete/rename/change after a random interval but this is not always 100% effective, but works most of the time. Qt has had the bug reported but still have not fixed it. Although there have been some recent changes that should make the issue happen less often.

If this ever happens again, please note the very last step you used, and grab a screen shot of any failure dialog.

Thanks!

retiredbiker · Today, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

I believe Qt has an online installer for Linux that can be used to install newer versions, but I have no experience with it.

Thanks. I had a look at it...beyond my current geek limit.

DiapDealer · Today, 01:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

Thanks. I had a look at it...beyond my current geek limit.

I think I can make this pretty easy for you. I went home for lunch and had the latest Sigil beta running on Ubuntu Jammy (using the latest Qt6.7.2) inside of 20 minutes or so. The installation of an alternate Qt version is made easy with a Python module called aqtinstall. From there, it's simply a matter of telling cmake to use the newer Qt6 to build (and run) Sigil.

Give me some time to cobble together some sane instructions.

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KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 7,846 Karma: 5449464 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	Hmm, are you sure it is a "crash" because typically a real segfault or abort can not be "caught" by Sigil at all, the program just exits immediately with no chance to save? Was there a specific error message that is provided? Windows Qt goes have a bug that goes back a long long way where trying to delete or rename a file, causes problems when MD (or some other anti-virus program) has grabbed control of it and is still trying to "analyze" the file and will not allow you to delete, rename, of change it in any way causing an exception that can be caught by Sigil but results in Sigil saying it has to close. My guess is this is what you are seeing. We try to workaround this by retrying the delete/rename/change after a random interval but this is not always 100% effective, but works most of the time. Qt has had the bug reported but still have not fixed it. Although there have been some recent changes that should make the issue happen less often. If this ever happens again, please note the very last step you used, and grab a screen shot of any failure dialog. Thanks!