Re: K3b - various troubles

[Richard Otte]

I also have problems with k3b; it doesn't work at all for me.  When I
open it up, as either root or a normal user, the interface screen
appears.  But when I move the mouse to any of the options, such as New
Data CD (or any of the others), nothing happens when I click.  The
mouse, and keyboard, have no effect on anything in the screen; it is
completely unresponsive.  I've tried running k3bset, but that doesn't
help.

I do find various messages on the terminal.  Sometimes I only get:
k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance
name or about data passed to the constructor!
Other times I get the following:
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'OpenOffice.org1.1/math.desktop' specifies
undefined mimetype/servicetype
'application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.math'
(Lines similar to this last line go on for a very long time)
I get the above messages also when trying to run k3bsetup.
After I eventually get out by ctrl-c, I get a message on the terminal:
  Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy
  ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 5076, errno = 0

I have completely deleted k3b and reinstalled it a couple of times, to
no avail.  dpkg -l |grep k3b gives me:
 ii  k3b0.11.20-1  A sophisticated KDE cd burning application
 ii  k3b-i18n   0.11-2 Internationalized (i18n) files for k3b
 ii  k3blibs0.11.20-1  The KDE cd burning application library - run
dpkg -l |grep kde gives me:
 ii  kdebase-bin3.3.2-1KDE Base (binaries)
 ii  kdebase-data   3.3.2-1KDE Base (shared data)
 ii  kdelibs-bin3.3.2-2KDE core binaries
 ii  kdelibs-data   3.3.2-2KDE core shared data
 ii  kdelibs4   3.3.2-2KDE core libraries
In my apt.sources I have 
deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 sid main contrib non-free

Any suggestions as to what my problem is? 
Thanks,
Ric

Re: installing 32b debian on unused partition

[Richard Otte]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:50:17PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
 Hi,
 
 a small bit of advice: If you've never done this before you might be
 better of just using the installer.
 
 It's quite a bit from a chroot to a fully bootable 32bit system and
 you probably need many reboots to tryerror out all the little
 things. So unless you are intrested in doing this and not just the
 result just use the installer.
 
 That aside you can of cause reuse tmp and swap and home. Just make
 sure you don't format home in the installer. If you decide to go via
 (c)debootstrap then just create the mountpoints, mount the partitions
 (--bind) and then run (c)debootstrap and create your fstab and users.
 
 If you want to share /home the users in both systems must match so
 create them in the right order or copy the entries over from one to
 the other. The rest is straight forward.
 
 MfG
 Goswin
 
 PS: Why do you have a /tmp partition an not just a tmpfs (and an
 acordingly larger swap)?

Hi,
The reason I have /tmp and not tmps is until your message I'd never
heard of tmps before.  I googled around a bit and tmpfs looks
interesting; unfortunately I've already partioned the disk and don't
want to reformat it to get a larger swap.

One reason I'm interested in not using the installer is because I
am concerned about erasing too much when I use the installer.  I
really don't want to accidentally reformat the disk or make pure64
unbootable.

Thanks for the hint about /home and the users,

Ric


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