#960 New version startup error

[ttheis]

Beebeep v 5.8.6 on Linux Mint Mate v21.1
Everything seems to be working in this new version as it did in the previous one. I noticed however there is an error on startup I had not seen before that displays if you start beebeep in the terminal:
"QObject::startTimer: Timers cannot have negative intervals"
Any idea what that is? Does it matter?

[Marco Mastroddi]

Hello. I have the same error with Qt 5.15... I'm looking for the problem, but... it is inside the Qt... and it seems to be only a message without error...
I continue to looking for the issue in the next weeks...
Thank you for your feedback...

[Anonymous]

Any movement on this? I am also getting the same message. If I close the terminal window, the program quits. Is there a way to suppress the message?

[Anonymous]

This is still an issue with version 5.8.6-1556-p95-qt5-64bit on Manjaro Linux 26.0.4. It is interesting that the BeeBEEP version string indicates qt5 but I find this in the QObject Class documentation: Starting from Qt 6.10, setting a negative interval will result in a run-time warning and the value being reset to 1ms. Before Qt 6.10 a Qt Timer would let you set a negative interval but behave in surprising ways (for example stop the timer if it was running or not start it at all).

[Anonymous]

Regarding the point that this issue does not appear to impact BeeBEEP functionality, it does appear to cause a kernel: atomic remove_fb failed with -22 and trace in my case. This kernel issue occurs repeatedly but only after I have started BeeBEEP. I suspect somewhere in the BeeBEEP source code, the startTimer method is being invoked (directly or indirectly) with an argument that for some reason startTimer interprets as negative/invalid. Could this possibly result in a memory leak or some other adverse side-affect?