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hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

[SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Hi everyone,

after the latest update of qt5-webengine (5.7.0-3 -> 5.7.0-4) kmail is not able to show mail-contents anymore. Both in the preview area as well as in the single message window it only shows a grey area where the content should be.

Downgrading qt5-webengine to 5.7.0-3 works around this issue.

Am I the only one? Is there anything we can do about this or should this be reported upstream?

Thanks,

Torben

Last edited by hoerbert (2016-10-10 19:51:04)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

What version of jsoncpp?

hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Newest one.

[hoerbert@Arch pkg]$ pacman -Q jsoncpp 
jsoncpp 1.7.7-1

fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Qupzilla's crashing here after the new qt5-webengine (and jsoncpp).

eschwartz

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Registered: 2014-08-08

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

For me, qupzilla is crashing a lot more spectacularly than it used to already crash anyway...

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fluxboxer

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Qupzilla has been very solid here except for these webengine updates. I've been forced to go back to Firefox, just now.

eschwartz

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Well, really, everything I touch that uses qtwebengine crashes/crashed -- I was curious about finding an alternative lightweight browser for quick things (because I actually like Firefox a lot) and a number of options use qtwebengine.

I figure qt5-webengine is probably not fundamentally broken, but I didn't really have much interest pursuing it because I don't really *need* another browser.
But FWIW I do see significantly worse behavior too. Once I actually try it, which I didn't have much cause to do.

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It doesn't die now, instead it flickers wildly and in the terminal it outputs miles and miles of stack traces. consuming my guake buffer in seconds.

Last edited by eschwartz (2016-10-09 19:33:11)

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fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Yes, it flickers wildly. Stack traces are shorter here, but anyway…

jhenson

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Registered: 2015-11-01

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Plex Media Player crashes after upgrading qt5-webengine to 5.7.0-4. jsoncpp 1.7.7-1 is installed and I've tried recompiling PMP but the only thing that fixes it is downgrading qt5-webengine to 5.7.0-3.

pb

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From: Krakow, PL

Registered: 2014-12-26

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

New version of qt5-webengine (5.7.0-5) is in repo, and KDEPIM 16.08.1-2, too. Both (mainly the first) solve the problem.

hoerbert

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Registered: 2013-04-03

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Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

New version of qt5-webengine (5.7.0-5) is in repo, and KDEPIM 16.08.1-2, too. Both (mainly the first) solve the problem.

Indeed it does.

=> solved

fluxboxer

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Registered: 2012-12-02

Posts: 118

Re: [SOLVED] kmail not showing mail-contents after qt5-webengine update

Thanks to the selflessly working, kind-hearted Arch devs, I'm back again to beautiful QupZilla, trusting them not to release such a critical component without minimal testing.