Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)
My daughter discovered this by accidentally starting a kde4 session with no a single crash at all!! 1. Must have a clean .kde4 on start! Even the one that I got by starting using sudo was not clean enough. Got rid of that. Viole. 2. Kicker and kdesktop will come up anyway, it seems (the old kde stuff is on the path to be able to run stuff like kmail). Currently, the session settings are not working? so the excluding them did not work and running apps were not restored on new login. 3. Desktop settings and themes were not fully honored, Icon choices for applications showed, for devices NO. I did succeed in getting smaller icons. 4. Konqueror could not access the internet--klauncher failed to make the connections, w or w/o proxy. In terms of this bug: 1. Place notification in change/log or in the preinstall script for kde4 about having no preexisting .kde4 on first run (temping to copy .kde to get all ones settings-a no no. Copy certain config rc files, konqueror profiles, etc, later on. 2. Can close. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)
Here is some more, possibly useful information: Postings on kubuntu's lists complained of problems with dbus without root permissions. Kubuntu/ubuntu's approach to this is sudo only so becomes more problematic. On my Debian system: 1. Dbusd IS running, started on init. (Note: There is no udev rule and no /dev entry for dbus.) 2. However, two instances of dbus-launcher become stuck in memory when attempting to start kde4 as user, one by user and one by root! 3. Hal's udev rule calls for a certain socket. There is no such file on my system. The URI is NOT a /dev path. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)
Here is some more, possibly useful information: Run from a failsafe session in an xterm, sudo /usr/bin/startkde will bring up successfully a KDE4 session, no crashes, everything (currently implemented) there! Run without root privileges, I get all the crashes. Apparently, run from a KDM logon, startkde is run as the user logged on, not with root privileges. Possibly the kde.desktop xsession can be rigged to run as root or all users that will be running kde4 can be sudo-enabled for that command and sudo /usr/bin/startkde placed there. However, this is not a pretty workaround as is, of course, dangerous. Running the kde4 session this way had the following side-effects: 1. The $HOME/.ICE file had its ownership and/or permissions changed. A subsequent kde3.5 session (no root privileges) could not access it so immediately fails. Changed them back. 2. The $HOME/.DCOP. files were not available/dcop was not running so the session then fails. Went to a console an manually ran dcopserver. After this, I was able to run kde3.5 normally. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable
Package: kde4 Version: 1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Starting kde4, either from its /etc/init.d/kdm or from a failsafe session running /usr/bin/startkde brings up a blue background then a series of crashes: kcminit (from kdm) krunner (so no desktop) plasma (so no panels) kget (maybe because no panels) knotify (repeatedly--I subsequently moved this out of the way) Get the old kmail, functions OK. Get a sporadically visible kmix icon, will tooltip the volume sometimes. Can do nothing else but but end the session, either by exiting the console in the failsafe session of killing kdm. Note: With the supplied kdmrc path, a very ugly error message appears when starting or stopping kdm: Old kde does not end with /share/config, this can wreck havoc. Replacing the path with one including this text eliminates the message. Havoc was not caused. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (650, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-rt1-davidb (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages kde4 depends on: ii extragear-plasma 4:4.0.0-1 extras for the desktop and panel u ii kde4-minimal 1 the K Desktop Environment 4, minim ii kdeadmin 4:4.0.0-1 system administration tools from t ii kdeartwork4:4.0.0-1 themes, styles and more from the o ii kdeedu4:4.0.0-1 educational apps from the official ii kdegames 4:4.0.0-1 games from the official KDE releas ii kdegraphics 4:4.0.0-2 Graphics applications from the off ii kdemultimedia 4:4.0.0-1 multimedia apps from the official ii kdenetwork4:4.0.0-1 network-related apps from the offi ii kdeutils 4:4.0.0-1 general purpose utilities from the kde4 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
