dataChanged signal cannot be used on ARM under certain conditions

Can you try to use the old connection syntax? The new syntax is known to be unreliable on some architectures.

The old connection syntax appears to work fine. Also, I finally managed to get Utopic up and running on the device and surprisingly, the problem with my example has disappeared. However, it appears to be a compile-time issue since anything compiled with Qt 5.2.1 in Trusty still fails to work when run in Utopic. It must be recompiled in Utopic.

Aha! I have found the Qt bug that corresponds with this issue: https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-36129

This was fixed in 5.3.0 (which is the version Utopic ships with). However, this doesn't help Trusty users since existing applications will fail to work. Is there any chance that this fix could be backported to Trusty? This is the patch that would need to be applied: https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/81095/2//ALL,unified

The patch you point to was never applied to Ubuntu packages. Even more, we have reverted it in all our releases.

The proper fix to this bug on ARM is in binutils: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commitdiff;h=97323ad11305.

Dear binutils maintainers: do you think it will be possible to backport the above fix to Trusty?

fixed for 15.04. currently building in the ubuntu-toolchain-r/ppa PPA.

Hello Nathan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted binutils into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/binutils/2.24-5ubuntu13 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

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Thanks for getting this into trusty-proposed. I built the application again using the new binutils package and I can confirm that it now works perfectly.

This bug was fixed in the package binutils - 2.24-5ubuntu13

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binutils (2.24-5ubuntu13) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU LP: #1311866.
  * Update from the 2.24 branch, 20141113.
    - Fix PR gold/16945, properly handle 64-bit GOT relocations on x86_64.
    - Fix PR gold/16900, an issue where first reserved word of GOT is not
      initialized if there is no PLT.
    - gold: Fix handling of __ehdr_start when it cannot be defined.
    - Apply mainline patches for ppc476 workaround.
    - Add binutils test cases for AArch64.
    - Disassembler fix on AArch64.
    - Fix PR ld/17047, crash in the bfd linker with MALLOC_PERTURB.
    - Fix PR ld/17277, ARM32, bogus DT_TEXTREL marker (and R_ARM_NONE)
      for PC-relative cross-section relocs.
    - [AArch64] Cortex-A53 erratum 835769 linker workaround.
  * Remove the aarch64-fix-instruction-mask, applied on the branch.
  * Fix PR gold/15639, -flto and ld.gold on ARM. LP: #1191909.
  * Use 64k for COMMONPAGESIZE on PPC. LP: #1412553.
  * Fix PR ld/16452, PR ld/16457, don't output symbol version definitions
    for non-DT_NEEDED. LP: #1248642.
  * Add powerpc target for ppc64el builds. Closes: #760395. LP: #1433238.
  * binutils-doc: Include all info files. LP: #1410780.
  * Fix PR ld/16715 (ARM), set st_value to zero for undefined symbols.
    LP: #1441961.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Apr 2015 19:52:45 +0200

The verification of the Stable Release Update for binutils has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

We don't revert the upstream patch anymore - that is -Bsymbolic is disabled on non-x86 Qt indefinitely currently. Furthermore, trusty won't be changed anymore regarding this.