Re: lxqt crashing (Was: NetBSD 10 packages)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 2023-10-05 at 18:23 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-10-03 at 16:36 +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 16:30, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 at 12:34, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I had a quick pass to try to run netbsd-9 pkgsrc binaries on a
> > > > netbsd-10 system, but it looks like the compat90 packages need
> > > > to
> > > > be
> > > > updated to add libarchive4 and likely many other versioned
> > > > libraries.
> > > > I'm going to take a pass at that, and will return to this once
> > > > done :)
> > > 
> > > OK, another datapoint, but definitely a curious one... After
> > > updating
> > > compat90 I installed the current pkgin set of netbsd-9 binary
> > > packages
> > > on a netbsd-10 box, logged in with slim to a lxqt desktop and
> > > everything ran perfectly.
> > > 
> > > The -9 packages had lxqt-panel-1.3.0nb3 rather than
> > > lxqt-panel-1.3.0nb4, the diffs are likely in the last couple of
> > > commits:
> > > https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/commits/trunk/x11/lxqt-panel/Makefile
> > > 
> > > I'm going to start a local netbsd-9 build with the same recent
> > > pkgsrc
> > > as netbsd-10, plus test it I can build lxqt-panel-1.3.0nb3 against
> > > an
> > > otherwise recent pkgsrc for the up-to-date netbsd-10 build
> > 
> > We have a winner!
> > 
> > Running "cvs up -D2023-08-11" in /pkgsrc/x11/lxqt-panel and
> > rebuilding
> > lxqt-panel-1.3.0nb3.tgz gives a working panel back on netbsd-10,
> > everything else otherwise the latest pkgsrc tree
> > 
> > I have a jenga-like stack of non-NetBSD stuff to get caught up on,
> > but
> > if nobody has had a chance to look at this by tomorrow I should be
> > able to take a pass..
> 
> The alternate workaround is to enable the pulseaudio option for the
> lxqt-panel package. The volume plugin then starts on recent NetBSD;
> I just confirmed that's the case with 10.99.9. (Now, I'm not offering
> an opinion on what the best choice is here feature-wise, only
> pointing out that it doesn't kill the panel.)

(I mean, really we're saying the same thing, since pulseaudio was the
default before the nb4 change set.)

Dave