kdm is dead
I upgraded kdm a week or so ago, and Konqueror finally killed X yesterday. Kdm comes up, but I don't get a background, and the user list is filled with all the users in the system. eww (but I've already seen some posts earlier this month on how to fix that). Anyhow, I try to login, and get a message saying something like 'couldn't find /usr/X11R6/lib/kdm/Xsession' and what do you know, there is no /usr/X11R6/lib/kdm directory. So figuring something was hosed, I killed kdm, and tried to use /etc/init.d/kdm start. I get the 'Starting kdm: Done' message, but now it doesn't start at all. I do a dpkg --purge kdm, and reinstall, but it still won't start. Typing kdm from a console prompt doesn't do it either. ps -A | grep kdm doesn't show anything. So now I'm kinda stuck. Anyone care to lend a hand? Thanks, .Geoff - Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com
Re: unstable KDE situation? TESTING
On Monday 19 November 2001 02:14 pm, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > Magnus von Koeller Spoke Thusly: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 19 November 2001 22:52, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > > I am running pure unstable, with KDE 2.1. I know that KDE 2.2 is > > > currently making its way into unstable. I'm looking forward to > > > upgrading, but I can't afford a complete KDE crash and burn at the > > > moment. > > > > > > Is it safe to upgrade? I know it takes 10 days for the packages to > > > clear. > > > > Are you talking about testing? Because KDE 2.2 is already in unstable > > (packages get there immediately ...). Did you mean you're running > > testing? > > Yes. Sorry. Brain cramp. I meant "testing" not "unstable." I moved over to the 2.2 version in testing and had two problems: - kmail was broken (see earlier mail) - the qt libs made konqueror a bit wobbly Both of these (with some help from this list) turned out to be easy to fix with a bit of package fiddling, but it's not yet a completely no-stress transition. - Derek
Re: unstable KDE situation? TESTING
Magnus von Koeller Spoke Thusly: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 19 November 2001 22:52, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > > I am running pure unstable, with KDE 2.1. I know that KDE 2.2 is > > currently making its way into unstable. I'm looking forward to > > upgrading, but I can't afford a complete KDE crash and burn at the > > moment. > > > > Is it safe to upgrade? I know it takes 10 days for the packages to > > clear. > > Are you talking about testing? Because KDE 2.2 is already in unstable > (packages get there immediately ...). Did you mean you're running > testing? Yes. Sorry. Brain cramp. I meant "testing" not "unstable." -- Jim -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: unstable KDE situation?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 November 2001 22:52, James Lindenschmidt wrote: > I am running pure unstable, with KDE 2.1. I know that KDE 2.2 is > currently making its way into unstable. I'm looking forward to > upgrading, but I can't afford a complete KDE crash and burn at the > moment. > > Is it safe to upgrade? I know it takes 10 days for the packages to > clear. Are you talking about testing? Because KDE 2.2 is already in unstable (packages get there immediately ...). Did you mean you're running testing? - -- - -M - --- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7+X8fUIvM6e6BgFARAn9VAKC+XsE61vr0aRI2mPXLO2bgGvN0JACdHK9j WuAERYmua1AkWHvWlBRlEWk= =1ugQ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
unstable KDE situation?
Greetings everyone, I am running pure unstable, with KDE 2.1. I know that KDE 2.2 is currently making its way into unstable. I'm looking forward to upgrading, but I can't afford a complete KDE crash and burn at the moment. Is it safe to upgrade? I know it takes 10 days for the packages to clear. When I try to do my apt-get dist-upgrade, I get the following: Calculating Upgrade... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: abbrowser aktion ark kab karm kcalc kcharselect kchart kcron kde-designer kdebase kdebase-crypto kdebase-libs kdelibs3 kdelibs3-crypto kdepasswd kdevelop kdf kdm kedit keystone kfind kfloppy kformula kghostview khexedit kiconedit killustrator kit kivio kjots klisa kmail kmix kmoon knewsticker knode knotes koffice-libs konqueror konsole korganizer korn koshell kpackage kpaint kpm kpresenter kscd kscreensaver ksirc kspread ksysctrl ksysv ktalkd ktimemon ktron ktux kuser kview kweather kword libkmid libkonq3 libqt-dev pixie quanta secpolicy task-kde The following NEW packages will be installed: xserver-common-v3 73 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 69 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 43.8MB of archives. After unpacking 118MB will be freed. Needless to say, I don't want to remove all of KDE. I've been following the thread, and I know that KDE 2.2 is making its way into unstable. How can I tell when KDE will be upgradeable using only unstable? Is it ready to go? Thanks . . . -- Jim
Re: kde objprelink and new binutils
On Monday 19 November 2001 18:00, Magnus von Koeller wrote: > On Saturday 20 October 2001 10:54, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > > If you have the time and skills it is always a good idea to compile > > K-packages yourself. It turned out recently that adding > > architecture specific optimization makes a big performance > > difference, becouse of the amount of byteoperations. So get the > > source and compile it with '-march=' :-) (I can also > > recommend -ffast-math and -finline-functions for good standard > > optimizations that arent included in -O2) > > How do I do this? Is doing > > # export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" > # export CPPFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" > # export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" > # dpkg-buildpackage > > enough? > > Is -O3 a good idea? Or should I rather use "-O2 --ffast-math > -finline-functions"? Change the debian/rules file, it might/does set some flags on its own. If not using deb packages, you would simple write: CFLAGS='-march=i686 -O2' CXXFLAGS='-march=i686 -O2' ./configure The only importent flag is -march. The others are for "fun" or experiments, please try -O3 if you like, but I doubt it makes much of an impact. btw -ffast-math is not included i O3, becouse floating point operations might be changed in a way that changes the result, but which are still accurate. regards Allan
Re: KDE3
> Yes, those packages are not ready for general use currently. AFAIK Ivan's > working on them. I've experienced the same problem when I installed kdelibs4. > remove them, --purge --force-all kdelibs3 and then reinstall kdelibs3. > That's how you can get back to working KDE2.2. Thankfully I don't need working KDE on that machine (that's why I tried KDE3 here ;). I posted this just in case someone wants to try it. Ax -- Vaclav Hula ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~ax
Re: KDE 3?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 19 November 2001 21:09, Vaclav Hula wrote: > Hi, > I've installed KDE3.0 from people.debian.org, added /usr/lib/kde to > ld.so.conf (had to to tun (at least) kmail), but now neither kio_http > nor kio_file can be executed and no file named kio_file* or kio_http* > exists. > Yes, those packages are not ready for general use currently. AFAIK Ivan's working on them. I've experienced the same problem when I installed kdelibs4. remove them, --purge --force-all kdelibs3 and then reinstall kdelibs3. That's how you can get back to working KDE2.2. Thanks, - -- Eray Ozkural (exa) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo GPG public key fingerprint: 360C 852F 88B0 A745 F31B EA0F 7C07 AE16 874D 539C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7+WO/fAeuFodNU5wRAp+jAJ4/H+tfHUgUCm5klVXrOl8qVEKEYQCghYyH yByB+d76Hv4Q2sMrikIOUlU= =UB22 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
KDE 3?
Hi, I've installed KDE3.0 from people.debian.org, added /usr/lib/kde to ld.so.conf (had to to tun (at least) kmail), but now neither kio_http nor kio_file can be executed and no file named kio_file* or kio_http* exists. Greets.. Ax -- Vaclav Hula ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) JabberID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~ax
Re: Konqueror gets weird
Op maandag 19 november 2001 17:36, schreef Peter Soetens: > Hi, > > I had my problems before with konqueror (like the ssl part) so i regularily > installed the latest unstables (together with kdebase, kmail etc ) > > What goes wrong ( I only exerience this on slashdot.org ): > > 1. It says the process for the http://slashdot.org protocol died > unexpectedly 2. OR It renders a gif image of 0x0 pixels or a larger > corupted image 3. OR It renders an incomplete page with corrupted images. > > The screenshot in attachment shows what happens. > > I use qtlib 2.3.1-13 > latest K- stuff from unstable > > I suspect a component from unstable is responsible for this but i can't > figure which. hi peter, this was a problem with the kuleuven transparant proxy cache that got corrupted. i think its fixed now. if it still doesn't work, try to purge your browser cache. greetings, Frank
Konqueror gets weird
Hi, I had my problems before with konqueror (like the ssl part) so i regularily installed the latest unstables (together with kdebase, kmail etc ) What goes wrong ( I only exerience this on slashdot.org ): 1. It says the process for the http://slashdot.org protocol died unexpectedly 2. OR It renders a gif image of 0x0 pixels or a larger corupted image 3. OR It renders an incomplete page with corrupted images. The screenshot in attachment shows what happens. I use qtlib 2.3.1-13 latest K- stuff from unstable I suspect a component from unstable is responsible for this but i can't figure which. Peter <>
Problem Adding A Printer To KDE
I am adding my wife's HP DeskJet 672C printer with the Printing Manager from KDE 2.2.1. I can see the printer on the network attached to my wife's shared drive. When I add it I then desire to test the added printer, and so I click Test. A dialog pops up saying "The access to the requested resource on the CUPS server running on localhost (port 631) requires a password." The username field field contains my logged in username. When I enter my login password it dialog comes back with the same response, so that's not right. How do I specify (or check on) the password to my CUPS server? Thank you! -- Comments and information are appreciated. Flames, rants, and other miscellany are routed to /dev/null. Robert Tilley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kde objprelink and new binutils
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 October 2001 10:54, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > If you have the time and skills it is always a good idea to compile > K-packages yourself. It turned out recently that adding > architecture specific optimization makes a big performance > difference, becouse of the amount of byteoperations. So get the > source and compile it with '-march=' :-) (I can also > recommend -ffast-math and -finline-functions for good standard > optimizations that arent included in -O2) How do I do this? Is doing # export CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" # export CPPFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" # export CFLAGS="-O3 -march=i686" # dpkg-buildpackage enough? Is -O3 a good idea? Or should I rather use "-O2 --ffast-math - -finline-functions"? - -- - -M - --- Magnus von Koeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Georg-Westermann-Allee 76 / 38104 Braunschweig / Germany Phone: +49-(0)531/2094886 Mobile: +49-(0)179/4562940 lp1 on fire (One of the more obfuscated kernel messages) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7+TqrUIvM6e6BgFARAiVgAJ9VbwcbfULXhk2nfsdeB/Pv9YcpaACfdSGD fFU8PXBzgwt2rQEzZLQuhHc= =pNd8 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
kde & power savings
A while back I posted that I was having problems with my notebook parking the hard drive. I saw this repeated by others as well. I have an update, but first, to reiterate: The problem is that the hard drive will park (spin down) and then in <1 second, spin back up again. This repeats ad infinitum regardless of my activities on the desktop. I have already been through the questions of noflushd and stuff like that. In short, I've done everything I could in the Battery-Powered HOWTO. I switch to fvwm2 for a while to see if the problem would continue. I did this because I know that gnome would also park nicely but had since removed it from my computer and fvwm2 was easier to install. The point is, that this is a non-KDE desktop (mostly?). Now, it parks just fine. It's wonderful. It's exactly as advertized. Now to figure out what's wrong with the testing/KDE installation that's causing this. I am running kdm as well, and choose fvwm2 over kde from the drop-down box. I know that something kde-ish is probably still running because the background is mysteriously shaded the same as it is in KDE for my desktop. But I'm not sure what, so I've included a list of everything running right now. UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 02:40 ?00:00:03 init [2] root 2 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [keventd] root 3 1 4 02:40 ?00:09:25 [kapm-idled] root 4 0 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root 5 0 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [kswapd] root 6 0 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [bdflush] root 7 0 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [kupdated] root13 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 update -s 3600 -f 3600 root45 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 [khubd] daemon 94 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /sbin/portmap root 166 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /sbin/syslogd root 169 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /sbin/klogd root 174 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /sbin/rpc.statd root 181 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apm-sleep -U 0 root 184 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:13 /usr/sbin/apmd -P /etc/apm/apmd_proxy mail 197 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/exim -bd -q30m root 236 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 241 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/irattach irda0 -s root 251 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/lpd root 272 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /sbin/cardmgr postgres 347 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/postmaster -D /var/lib/postgres/data root 356 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd root 359 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/X11/xfs -daemon root 365 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/noflushd -n 5 /dev/hda daemon 368 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/atd root 371 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cron root 379 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache root 384 1 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/kdm root 388 1 0 02:40 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 389 1 0 02:40 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 390 1 0 02:40 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 391 1 0 02:40 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 392 1 0 02:40 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 393 1 0 02:40 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 www-data 396 379 0 02:40 ?00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache root 547 384 2 02:42 ?00:05:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth /var/lib/kdm/authfiles/A:0-idtfyK root 2291 384 0 05:15 ?00:00:00 -:0 tallison 2356 2291 0 05:15 ?00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 tallison 2389 2356 0 05:15 ?00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm2 tallison 2390 2356 0 05:15 ?00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.5/FvwmCommandS 9 6 /etc/X11/fvwm/system.warnings 0 8 tallison 2394 2356 0 05:15 ?00:00:00 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fvwm/2.2.5/FvwmPager 9 4 /etc/X11/fvwm/post.hook 0 8 0 0 tallison 2415 1 0 05:17 ?00:00:01 lyx tallison 2485 2356 0 05:30 ?00:00:00 xterm tallison 2486 2485 0 05:30 pts/000:00:00 bash tallison 2487 2486 0 05:30 pts/000:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2492 2487 11 05:30 pts/000:03:06 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2494 2492 0 05:30 pts/000:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2495 2494 0 05:30 pts/000:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2496 2494 0 05:30 pts/000:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2503 2494 0 05:31 pts/000:00:00 /usr/local/mozilla/mozilla-bin tallison 2519 2356 0 05:58 ?00:00:00 xterm tallison 25
Re: hanging in konqueror -> libqt broken
Moreover, the euro support works again with this downgrad ! Le Lundi 19 Novembre 2001 09:06, Aurelien Jarno a écrit : > Using your advice, I have also downgrade my libqt 2.3.2 to libqt 2.3.1. > Now, everything work, konqueror doesn't hang, and klipper now works very > fast. > > Aurélien > > Le Dimanche 18 Novembre 2001 21:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > > I've had the same problems and I traced it to the recent > > switch to libqt 2.3.2 in unstable. If I downgrade to > > 2.3.1, everything works (mostly) fine. I'm kinda surprised > > this hasn't been fixed yet as it's rather glaringly obvious.
Re: hanging in konqueror -> libqt broken
Using your advice, I have also downgrade my libqt 2.3.2 to libqt 2.3.1. Now, everything work, konqueror doesn't hang, and klipper now works very fast. Aurélien Le Dimanche 18 Novembre 2001 21:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > I've had the same problems and I traced it to the recent > switch to libqt 2.3.2 in unstable. If I downgrade to > 2.3.1, everything works (mostly) fine. I'm kinda surprised > this hasn't been fixed yet as it's rather glaringly obvious. >
kde-devel broke my X?
I updated kdevelop to 2.0 and was very impressed. I needed to install the kdelibs source before the configure routine would finish but then I got a very impressive kdevelop and was able to check the progress of my small project. I thought I'd have a go at playing around with a KDE app, so I tried to create a new project, but after creating all the files the configure routine said that I was missing qtlib2.2.2, so I used apt-get to install the missing qt libs. Now configure complained I was missing some KDE headers. I installed kde-devel, but this broke most of the rest of kde. Figuring that a re-boot would sort out the lib issues, I found that I could no longer log into KDE with gdm. I kept getting errors about a missing dcop file and to make sure the dcopserver was running. After several attempts to find out why the dcopserver was not starting again (Manually starting dcopserver didn't work) now I can not even get X to start. I finally tried a full apt-get dist-upgrade with testing set to 1001 in my preferences, but even this failed to fix X. Obviously I've got soem serious problems with libs on my system again, but I really want to avoid a complete re-install as the latest CD I've got is Progeny and takes about 5 days to download the updates to testing before I can re-install KDE again. Could someone please send me a list of the valid libs needed for testing KDE so I can find which ones need removing? I can log in as myself or as root to the terminal, but startkde can not connect to the display. startx give a KDE-like pop-up warning that a dcop file is missing and to be sure the dcopserver is running. I can start the dcopserver manually, after setting DISPLAY=:0 but the startx only gives the blank screen with an X for a mouse and never gets past this. I guess I should learn to leave well enough alone. Thanks again for all the help. Cheers, John Gay
