Kylix 3 Pro freezes

[Philip E. Jurgenson]

I'm having a new problem with Kylix 3 Pro, and am not certain where to
look to solve it, or even whether it can be solved.

I'm running Gentoo - kernel 2.4.30 (vanilla-sources) and glibc 2.3.5
are recent updates. Up to now I've never had any problems with Kylix (I
use only Delphi, since I have the version that was bundled with Delphi
7.)

My desktop environment is KDE 3.4.

I can no longer install or uninstall packages. When I try to do that,
Kylix becomes completely unresponsive. When I check with KDE SysGuard,
I see that Delphi is using +90% of the system. The only thing I can do
is Kill the Delphi process.

This happens whether I want to remove a package, disable a package, or
add a new package. In fact, I tried opening a package project file
(.dpk) - that worked. When I compiled it, though, the freeze happens.
It DOES build the .so, but something else is happening that causes it
to freeze.

I suspect it may be the glibc version, but that's just a wild guess.

If anybody at all has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

Thanks!

Phil

[Philip E. Jurgenson]

Philip E. Jurgenson wrote:

Finally solved this, I think. It turns out that Kylix really doesn't
like something about glibc-2.3.5. I went back to the latest version of
glibc-2.3.4, and Kylix works properly again.

Don't know what impact this will have on everything ELSE on my system,
but at least I can use Kylix again!