Re: KDE Plasma LTS for Debian stable

[Andy G Wood]

On Thursday, 10 December 2020 11:16:17 GMT peylight wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> Do you know why Debian is not using KDE Plasma LTS for Stable version?
> I mean for now DebianBuster is using Plasma 5.14.5, However KDE
> Community have no support for that version:
> https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5
> Why Debian don't choice KDE LTS version for Debian stable version?

The freeze for inclusion of major software versions in Buster occurred in
early 2019 [1].  Take another look at the Plasma 5 schedule [2] and work out
for yourself which version is likely to be in Buster.

Andy.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianBuster
[2] https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5



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Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

[Andy G Wood]

On Tuesday, 10 November 2020 18:31:17 GMT Borden Rhodes wrote:
[...]
> Anyhow, is there a way to roll the repos back to 5.17 until 5.19 is
> fully ready or am I stuck with an unbootable operating system until
> 5.19 goes downstream?

As I posted earlier in the week ... and now refined:

#
# Fix problem with some 5.17.5-2 packages going up to 5.19.5-3
#
# Upgrade: libkdecorations2-5v5:amd64 (4:5.17.5-2, 4:5.19.5-3)
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkdecorations2-5v5 4:5.17.5-2
# Upgrade: libkf5screen-bin:amd64 (4:5.17.5-3, 4:5.19.5-3)
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkf5screen-bin 4:5.17.5-2
# Upgrade: libkf5screen7:amd64 (4:5.17.5-3, 4:5.19.5-3)
debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkf5screen7 4:5.17.5-2
#
sudo dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5v5_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb \
 libkf5screen7_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb \
 libkf5screen-bin_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb
#
dpkg --get-selections \* | grep -P '^libkdecorations2-5v5' \
 | sed -e 's/install/hold/' > plasma_upgrade_5-19.hold
dpkg --get-selections \* | grep -P '^libkf5screen' \
 | sed -e 's/install/hold/' >> plasma_upgrade_5-19.hold
sudo dpkg --set-selections < plasma_upgrade_5-19.hold
#
# Install: libkdecorations2private7:amd64 (4:5.19.5-3, automatic)
sudo dpkg -r libkdecorations2private7

Andy.



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Re: Upgrade partially some packages (Plasma 5.19. 5 - 3) on testing broke plasma.

[Andy G Wood]

I had the same problem this morning with testing.
My fix was to simply to back out the new libkdecorations2-5v5 :

debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 libkdecorations2-5v5 4:5.17.5-2
sudo dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5v5_5.17.5-2_amd64.deb
dpkg --get-selections \* | grep -P '^libkdecorations2-5v5' \
  | sed -e 's/install/hold/' > libkdecorations2-5v5.hold
sudo dpkg --set-selections < libkdecorations2-5v5.hold

That was good enough to get things working for today!
Andy.

On Monday, 9 November 2020 07:27:15 GMT Thom Castermans wrote:
> Hi Héctor,
>
> Not sure if it was the same problem, but when I logged in today I did
> not have window decorations and was generally missing some kwin
> functionality. Turned out I could not start kwin due to a missing
> symbol. Running `apt full-upgrade` resolved the issue by installing a
> lot of kf5* packages. I thought apt would protect me from this, but it
> remains unstable/testing for a reason!
>
> Hope that helps, best regards,
> Thom
>
> Op ma 9 nov. 2020 om 07:54 schreef Héctor Sales Llamas
:
> > Hello, today some plasma  5.19.5-3 packages have entered testing . After
> > reboot and logging into the system, plasma is partially broken.  I
> > suspect it has to do with the partial plasma upgrade 5.19.x. How can i
> > fix this ?.  Why did these packages go into testing partially ?
> >
> > Start-Date: 2020-11-09  05:23:55
> > Commandline: apt upgrade
> > Requested-By: hector (1000)
> > Install: libkdecorations2private7:amd64 (4:5.19.5-3, automatic)
> > Upgrade: openssl:amd64 (1.1.1g-1, 1.1.1h-1), libkdecorations2-5v5:amd64
> > (4:5.17.5-2, 4:5.19.5-3), libxnvctrl0:amd64 (450.66-1, 450.80.02-1),
> > libkf5screen-bin:amd64 (4:5.17.5-3, 4:5.19.5-3), libkf5screen7:amd64
> > (4:5.17.5-3, 4:5.19.5-3), libssl-dev:amd64 (1.1.1g-1, 1.1.1h-1),
> > libssl1.1:amd64 (1.1.1g-1, 1.1.1h-1), libssl1.1:i386 (1.1.1g-1,
> > 1.1.1h-1), nvidia-settings:amd64 (450.66-1, 450.80.02-1) End-Date:
> > 2020-11-09  05:24:18



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Re: plasma-workspace update in testing

[Andy G Wood]

A quick fix for now seems to be a downgrade:

debsnap -d . --binary -a amd64 plasma-workspace 4:5.14.5.1-1
sudo dpkg -i plasma-workspace_5.14.5.1-1_amd64.deb
dpkg --get-selections \* | grep -e "plasma-workspace[^-]" | \
   sed -e 's/install/hold/' > plasma-workspace.hold
sudo dpkg --set-selections < plasma-workspace.hold

Andy.

On Friday, 4 October 2019 09:43:46 BST Andy G Wood wrote:
> Same problem here.
> Andy.
> 
> On Friday, 4 October 2019 07:34:34 BST luca.pedrielli wrote:
> > after this morning debian testing updates, I have some issues in plasma
> > desktop.
> > 
> > for example: systray disappears from panel and righ click contextual
> > menu on desktop stops working.
> > 
> > this in .xsession-errors:
> > 
> > --
> > -
> > 
> > >  load applet:  "org.kde.plasma.systemtray" relpath:
> > "plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray"
> > 
> >   .. pathes: ("/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray")
> > 
> > org.kde.plasma: Applet
> > "/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray" could not be
> > loaded.
> > -
> > -
> > 
> > plasma-workspace was updated from 4:5.14.5.1-1 to 4:5.14.5.1-2 version

Re: plasma-workspace update in testing

[Andy G Wood]

Same problem here.
Andy.

On Friday, 4 October 2019 07:34:34 BST luca.pedrielli wrote:
> after this morning debian testing updates, I have some issues in plasma
> desktop.
> 
> for example: systray disappears from panel and righ click contextual
> menu on desktop stops working.
> 
> this in .xsession-errors:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >  load applet:  "org.kde.plasma.systemtray" relpath: 
> "plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray"
>   .. pathes: ("/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray")
> org.kde.plasma: Applet
> "/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.systemtray" could not be loaded.
> ---
> 
> 
> plasma-workspace was updated from 4:5.14.5.1-1 to 4:5.14.5.1-2 version

Re: Akonadi 4:18.08.3-6 automatically resolves mutiple merge candidates errors

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 30 August 2019 09:54:27 BST Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Am Freitag, 30. August 2019, 10:22:42 CEST schrieb Andy G Wood:
> > On Thursday, 29 August 2019 19:24:26 BST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > [...]
> > > My major issue still are the Web Engine related crashes of KMail. KMail
> > > crashes several times a day during filtering here¹.
> > > 
> > > [1] kmail: Crash during/after filtering inbox, probably related to Qt
> > > WebEngine integration
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/921624
> > 
> > Me too, though not as frequent (a few times a week) and not related to
> > filtering.  Has been present for months but I have not got around to
> > debugging. I am fairly certain it happens due to html content of certain
> > emails (crashes on opening or closing the email, but not predictable),
> > which points the finger at Qt WebEngine?
> 
> It is at least probable.  Try
> vblank_mode=0 __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=0 /usr/bin/kontact

Three days of using kmail without the usual crash (famous last words!) 
suggests that this is the solution I have been looking for.
Thank you Christian.

Andy.

Re: Akonadi 4:18.08.3-6 automatically resolves mutiple merge candidates errors

[Andy G Wood]

On Thursday, 29 August 2019 19:24:26 BST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
[...]
> My major issue still are the Web Engine related crashes of KMail. KMail
> crashes several times a day during filtering here¹.
> 
> [1] kmail: Crash during/after filtering inbox, probably related to Qt
> WebEngine integration
> https://bugs.debian.org/921624

Me too, though not as frequent (a few times a week) and not related to 
filtering.  Has been present for months but I have not got around to debugging. 
 
I am fairly certain it happens due to html content of certain emails (crashes 
on opening or closing the email, but not predictable), which points the finger 
at Qt WebEngine?

Andy.

Re: KDEPIM 18.08.3 for Buster

[Andy G Wood]

Hello,

I have also been suffering from infrequent kmail crashes in recent weeks.  It 
is not related to filtering, nor is it specific to nouveau (I use the NVIDIA 
proprietary display driver).
Not currently reproducible ... and yes I need to install debug syms in order 
to provide more than a "me too".  The impact may be wider than kmail because I 
have also had one okular crash too.

Andy.

On Friday, 15 March 2019 09:55:10 GMT Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2019, 13:20:00 CET schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > Sandro Knauß - 07.02.19, 00:33:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > as Debian is already in freeze, the version of KDEPIM that will
> > > shipped with the next stable is 18.08.3. That was uploaded same days
> > > ago. There is no time to package 18.12.X sorry for that.
> > > So please test this version in more depth and report issues. If you
> > > also manage to point to existing bugfixes like done in #921535 it is
> > > very likely we can ship a that bugfix also for Buster.
> > 
> > The other issue I have since 18.08 packages is:
> > 
> > Debian #921624: kmail: Crash during/after filtering inbox, probably
> > related to Qt WebEngine integration
> > https://bugs.debian.org/921624
> > 
> > Crash during/after filtering inbox, probably related to Qt WebEngine
> > integration
> > https://bugs.kde.org/404052
> 
> Filed another one (since 18.08):
> 
> KMail (in Kontact) crashing upon start or shortly after
> https://bugs.kde.org/405491
> 
> It might be related (or even duplicate) to #404052,
> only that I do not need to have mails filtered for
> KMail to crash. Looks like a QtWebEngine thing.
> 
> Just like Martin, I missed out on debug syms. Got them
> installed now and trying to get another backtrace.
> 
> > I can add more backtraces to the upstream bug report. For some reason
> > DrKonqi shortened the second backtrace I had it generate after fully
> > upgrading to 18.08.3-1.
> > 
> > At least this one produces a crash, instead of just stalling… for
> > whatever reason.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> (Bye)²,
>   Christian

Recurring KMail issue in Testing.

[Andy G Wood]

In recent weeks I have been getting a seemingly random issue with KMail v5.9.3 
in Testing.  Now and again on sending an email I get the following notification 
pop-up:

Email sending failed.
Failed to store result in item. Only resources can modify remote identifiers.

The email sending does not fail, but the local administration of the fact that 
an email has been sent does fail (the outgoing email is put un-read in sent-
mail with an icon of an envelope superimposed with a small arrow, bottom 
right)

No akonadi error seems to be logged (which I am guessing is where the problem 
is coming from).  I don't really know how to debug this further?

Andy.

Re: kdeconnect doesn't

[Andy G Wood]

On Friday, 28 September 2018 13:29:08 BST Luigi Toscano wrote:
[...]
> If it was the case, it would have been broken for everyone. But for example
> it works for me (and other people). So it can't simply be a matter of
> packages mangled between different architectures.

No problem here with current version in buster (1.3.1-1) on amd64, and version 
1.8.4 in Lollipop from F-Droid.

Andy.

Re: Buster update of qtbase-opensource dfsg-6 to dfsg-7 breaks KMail 4:17.12.3-1

[Andy G Wood]

On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:24:08 BST yaros wrote:
> Dnia poniedziałek, 10 września 2018 13:06:04 CEST Andy G Wood pisze:
> > The recent update in testing/buster of qtbase-opensource from
> > 5.11.1+dfsg-6 to 5.11.1+dfsg-7 seems to break KMail 4:17.12.3-1.  The
> > only way I could get KMail working again this morning with external imap
> > servers was to downgrade to the following:
> > libqt5concurrent5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5core5a_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5dbus5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5gui5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5network5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5opengl5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5printsupport5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5sql5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5sql5-mysql_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5sql5-sqlite_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5test5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5widgets5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > libqt5xml5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
> > 
> > Andy.
> 
> I found this https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907345
> After installing:
> libssl1.1_1.1.1~~pre9-1_amd64.deb
> libssl1.1_1.1.1~~pre9-1_i386.deb
> openssl_1.1.1~~pre9-1_amd64.deb
> kmail works with new libqt :)

Many thanks for providing feedback on additional research which I did not have 
time to do.  My reading of libssl1.1_1.1.1 is that it could potentially 
generate a number of other problems, and is unlikely to make it in to buster 
in the near future.  However, hot of the press (as I write this) is qtbase-
opensource 5.11.1+dfsg-8, which should also fix the problem.  Wait for 
5.11.1+dfsg-8 to arrive in buster or install it from unstable (which is what I 
did) and KMail 4:17.12.3-1 works just fine again.

Andy.

Buster update of qtbase-opensource dfsg-6 to dfsg-7 breaks KMail 4:17.12.3-1

[Andy G Wood]

The recent update in testing/buster of qtbase-opensource from 5.11.1+dfsg-6 to 
5.11.1+dfsg-7 seems to break KMail 4:17.12.3-1.  The only way I could get 
KMail working again this morning with external imap servers was to downgrade 
to the following:
libqt5concurrent5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5core5a_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5dbus5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5gui5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5network5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5opengl5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5printsupport5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5sql5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5sql5-mysql_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5sql5-sqlite_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5test5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5widgets5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb
libqt5xml5_5.11.1+dfsg-6_amd64.deb

Andy.

Re: systemctl restart sddm

[Andy G Wood]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 15:01:37 BST inkbottle wrote:
[...]
> Also, introducing Haveged could lead to sensitive application using
> "questionable" entropy.
> 
> 
> HAVEGE is a random number generator that exploits the modifications of the
> internal CPU hardware states (caches, branch predictors, TLBs) as a source
> of uncertainty. During an initialization phase, the hardware clock cycle
> counter of the processor is used to gather part of this entropy: tens of
> thousands of unpredictable bits can be gathered per operating system call
> in average.
> 
> https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/34523/is-it-appropriate-to-use-> 
> haveged-as-a-source-of-entropy-on-virtual-machines 
> 
> That seems sound to me... But some security issues that have been found
> lately seem also so terribly remote.

But for completeness also review the haveged FAQ [1].

Andy.

[1] http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/faq.html

Re: Switch User Broken

[Andy G Wood]

On Monday, 11 June 2018 15:55:36 BST Klaus Becker wrote:
> I use alias switch-user='dm-tool switch-to-greeter'
> In ~/.bashrc.
> But I cannot find the package I installed for 'dm-tool switch-to-greeter'

dm-tool is in lightdm [1]

Andy.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/lightdm/filelist

Re: akonadi duplicates messages

[Andy G Wood]

Hi Andreas,

> akonadi/kmail "rediscovers" already read messages and shows them as "new",
> which results in duplicate messages in my inbox. This happens continously,
> so everyday there will be more messages und unread state, even if I mark
> them as read, they'd reappear as new ones.
> 
> I remember there was a command to cleanup akonadi to fix that - but don't
> remember what it was.

Perhaps ...
$ akonadictl fsck
[Check (and attempt to fix) consistency of the internal storage]

Andy.

Re: adding a Google calendar to Kontact

[Andy G Wood]

On Monday, 8 January 2018 00:24:58 GMT Gary Dale wrote:
[...]
> I've just noticed the problem is worse than I thought. I have events on
> my main Google calendar that aren't showing up on Kontact and others
> that are showing up wrong. This makes me believe that my main calendar
> hasn't been synched with Google for a couple of months (the date I last
> added an event that shows up on both Google and Kontact). I can't get it
> too resync manually either.

I too have seen this problem over past months with Google calendar.  Syncing 
seemed to stop if a Gcalendar was updated outside of kdepim, whilst kdepim was 
running (just an observation, not tested).  I have been living with this 
(hoping that 17.08 will fix the problem) by periodically deleting and 
recreating my Gcalendar in kdepim.  This fix eventually broke last week when I 
could not recreate in kdepim because of the Google Services problem reported 
in this thread.

Waiting for 17.08 to appear in testing ... and falling back to gcalcli.

Andy.

Re: Plasma and qt apps broken after upgrade in Testing

[Andy G Wood]

On Tuesday, 17 October 2017 13:34:06 BST devfra wrote:
> On martedì 17 ottobre 2017 11:43:16 CEST Andy G Wood wrote:
> > I found that lots of stuff was removed and not upgraded.  I cannot recall
> > all of what I did to fix it, but I installed again:
> > sddm-theme-breeze, kde-plasma-desktop, kde-standard, kdegraphics,
> > kdemultimedia, kdepim and kdeutils
> > and that got me going again.
> 
> I managed to solve the issue, the culprit was the nvidia driver.

The nvidia driver update was also in my list of upgrades for the day.  For me 
version 375.82-5 is also working fine now.

Andy.

Re: Plasma and qt apps broken after upgrade in Testing

[Andy G Wood]

Hi devfra,

> I upgraded Testing this morning and now Plasma 5 and all the qt
> applications are broken.

I experienced something very similar this morning - the perils of `apt-get 
dist-upgrade`!
I found that lots of stuff was removed and not upgraded.  I cannot recall all 
of what I did to fix it, but I installed again:
sddm-theme-breeze, kde-plasma-desktop, kde-standard, kdegraphics, 
kdemultimedia, kdepim and kdeutils
and that got me going again.

Good luck.
Andy.

KOrganizer unreliable with Desktop Calendar

[Andy G Wood]

After the recent updates in Stretch I have experienced a reliable problem with 
KOrganizer.

On initial start after login, it does not display items from the Desktop 
Calendar (${HOME}/.kde/share/apps/korganizer/std.ics).  After some time (yet 
to be determined, but more than a few seconds), a restart of KOrganizer will 
display everything fine.

I have yet to investigate (perhaps with Akonadi Console?), but wondered if 
anybody else was seeing the same problem?

Andy.

Re: Lost mail, etc.

[Andy G Wood]

On Tuesday, 31 January 2017 13:04:10 GMT Rainer Dorsch wrote:
[...]
> Is there a way to control the size of this cache?
> 
> Mine seems to be huge
> 
> rd@blackbox:~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data$ du -sh .
> 12G .
> rd@blackbox:~/.local/share/akonadi/file_db_data$
> 
> and I would not mind reducing it to a lower single digit GB number.

How about:
$ akonadictl vacuum

... but check you are happy with the warnings displayed by:
$ akonadictl --help

Andy.

Re: stretch/KDE5: icons disappeared from system tray

[Andy G Wood]

Hi Davide,

On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:02:26 GMT solitone wrote:
> Hi Andy, and thanks for your feedback!
> 
> On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:23:37 AM CET Andy G Wood wrote:
> > I have seen this in recent days on Debian testing.  It was caused by
> > updating my system part way through the very recent large KDE update.  In
> > other words, some packages were at the old version and some at the new.
> 
> Yes, that would be the only possible explanation. Although my last update
> was on 20th January, and since then I rebooted my system several times, but
> I noticed the issue only yesterday (23rd January). So I didn't relate the
> issue with that update, but perhaps I simply didn't notice it?

After an update on the 21st I saw the problem - part way through all the 
relevant packages needed.

> > It took a few days for all the necessary package updates to flow though
> > into testing.  As of yesterday (23rd January), an up to date Debian
> > testing
> > does not exhibit this any more ... for me.
> 
> Few hours ago I got a notification showing I've got 293 packages upgradable
> (wow!), many of which are related to KDE. For instance, just to mention
> three KDE packages, it proposes to upgrade kde5 from 5.27.0-1 to 5.28.0-1,
> and plasma-desktop and plasma-widgets-addons from 4:5.8.2-1 to 4:5.8.4-1.
> What versions do you have of these packages? I'm a bit worried and I
> haven't yet confirmed this huge update!

Go for the full update.  Much better to have a working system than one which 
may be broken in more ways than you have found so far.  In my experience you 
will come out of it smiling :-)  The Debian KDE team do an awesome job.

Andy.

Re: stretch/KDE5: icons disappeared from system tray

[Andy G Wood]

Hi solitone,

I have seen this in recent days on Debian testing.  It was caused by updating 
my system part way through the very recent large KDE update.  In other words, 
some packages were at the old version and some at the new.  It took a few days 
for all the necessary package updates to flow though into testing.  As of 
yesterday (23rd January), an up to date Debian testing does not exhibit this 
any more ... for me.

Andy.

On Tuesday, 24 January 2017 08:03:32 GMT solitone wrote:
> I'm sending an extract of my
> .config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc. It shows that the panel
> containment has ID=2. The panel has a system tray applet, whose containment
> id is 21.
> 
> The system tray in turn has several applets in it. The interesting part is
> the general section. For ID=21 neither org.kde.plasma.volume nor
> org.kde.plasma.bluetooth is listed. Funnily enough I have an analogous
> general section with a different ID (ID=7), that lists both such items. The
> point there is no containment with ID=5. BTW there are other two general
> sections (for containment IDs 33 and 25), which are the exact copy of the
> section for ID=21 (the system tray), and aren't linked to any actual
> containment either.
> 
> Here's the relevant part of that rc file:
> 
> ---
> [...]
> 
> [Containments][2]
> activityId=
> formfactor=2
> immutability=1
> lastScreen=0
> location=4
> plugin=org.kde.panel
> wallpaperplugin=org.kde.image
> 
> [Containments][2][Applets][20]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.systemtray
> 
> [Containments][2][Applets][20][Configuration]
> SystrayContainmentId=21
> 
> [...]
> 
> [Containments][21]
> activityId=
> formfactor=2
> immutability=1
> lastScreen=0
> location=4
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray
> wallpaperplugin=org.kde.image
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][22]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][23]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.devicenotifier
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][24]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.notifications
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][25]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.discovernotifier
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][26]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][27]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.battery
> 
> [Containments][21][Applets][28]
> immutability=1
> plugin=org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller
> 
> [Containments][21][ConfigDialog]
> DialogHeight=1320
> DialogWidth=1760
> 
> [Containments][21][General]
> extraItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kde
> .plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,o
> rg.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> knownItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kd
> e.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,
> org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> 
> [Containments][25][General]
> extraItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kde
> .plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,o
> rg.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> knownItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kd
> e.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,
> org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> 
> [Containments][33][General]
> extraItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kde
> .plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,o
> rg.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> knownItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kd
> e.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.kde.plasma.notifications,
> org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> 
> [Containments][7][General]
> extraItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kde
> .plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.bluetooth,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.k
> de.plasma.notifications,org.kde.plasma.volume,org.kde.plasma.mediacontroller
> ,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> knownItems=org.kde.discovernotifier,org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement,org.kd
> e.plasma.devicenotifier,org.kde.plasma.bluetooth,org.kde.plasma.battery,org.
> kde.plasma.notifications,org.kde.plasma.volume,org.kde.plasma.mediacontrolle
> r,org.kde.plasma.clipboard
> 
> [...]
> ---
> 
> I've tried to manually correct the file, but nothing changes. It's like
> those two applets are no longer available? Here's the changed version:
> 
> ---
> [...]
> 
> [Containments][2]
> activityId=
> formfactor=2
> immutability=1
> lastScreen=0
> location=4
> plugin=org.kde.panel
> wallpaperplugin=org.kde.image

Re: kmail auto-completion

[Andy G Wood]

I have exactly the same problem as Andy reports with all my addressbooks 
(which include LDAP) ... and came up with the same work around.

Reported from an up-to-date Debian testing system.

-- 
Andy

On Wednesday, 7 September 2016 17:15:06 BST Andreas Bourges wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ...since quite a while (after switching to kdepim 5.x  I guess), my composer
> recipient auto-completion has some minor problems.
> 
> When composing a new message and starting to type a recipient name in the
> "To:" field, no auto-completion occurs (let's say I type "Mic" to search for
> my colleague "Michael" - nothing happens).
> 
> *But* if I delete the typed characters again using backspace and re-type the
> same string (type BS,BS,BS, M,i,c) in the To: field, auto-completion works
> over all my kontact resources ("Michael" is found).
> 
> Btw - I only have CardDav/SOGo addressbooks.
> 
> Has anyone observed a similar behaviour (and solved it?).
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Andy

Re: kf5 5.25 in testing, systray elements not working

[Andy G Wood]

On Thursday, 1 September 2016 12:05:58 BST Francesco De Vita wrote:
> On August 31st, kf5 packages in Testing were upgraded to version 5.25. After
> this update the elements of the systray (audio volume, networks, printers,
> battery, notifications,...) do not work, their icons are missing and
> instead there are blank spaces where these elements should appear.
>
> If I create a new panel, it shows the missing elements but after few seconds
> plasma-shell (I suppose) crashes and the systray elements disappear.
> However, the same elements work if used as plasmoids outside of the
> systray.

The fix for this may have already been posted in debian-kde:

From: Diederik de Haas 
Subject: Re: KDE Frameworks 5.25 and KDE Applications 16.08
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 17:19:23 +0200
> When you miss several icons in the systray (and their functionality), make 
> sure you 'Unlock Widgets' and log out and back in again.
> This is reported at https://bugs.debian.org/835383

Works for me.
-- 
Andy

Kmail and Outlook style invitations.

[Andy G Wood]

Unfortunately, some of us have to work with/against corporate email systems 
based on Outlook and Exchange.  On an up to date Debian testing system (KDE 
Frameworks 5.23.0 and KMail 5.2.3), Kmail does not seem to recognize Outlook 
style invitations?  I can see the "body part VCS/ICS calendar" if I show the 
message structure, but cannot do anything with it (unlike the previous version 
of Kmail).  Tried lots of options but nothing makes any difference.

Any insight much appreciated.
Thanks.
Andy.

Bug#833311: konsole: Konsole has recently started crashing.

[Andy G Wood]

Hi Maximiliano,

> > In recent days Konsole has crashed at least once a day, usually when the
> > application is not actively in use (this bug report was prepared in
> > Konsole).
> 
> The issue is not reproducible here, and sadly the backtrace is missing the
> debug information to follow it. 

After a flurry of occurrences, I have not seen this for some days now.  I fear 
it will be very difficult to reproduce.

> > #1  0x7f743501bf75 in ?? () from
> > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.352.79
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if the problem ends up being caused by a nvidia
> specific issue, that would explain why I don't see the problem here, at
> least.

You could be right, I seem to remember that nvidia was recently updated in 
testing.

Andy.

Bug#829614: krunner segmentation fault

[Andy G Wood]

Severity: grave

Seeing the same problem here and it is caused by a segfault:

$ krunner
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = krunner path = /usr/bin pid = 20227
KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/krunner 
Segmentation fault

Andy.

Bug#803451: kactivities: kactivitymanage segfaults on logout

[Andy G Wood]

Hi Lisandro,

After applying all the updates to testing in the past few days (up to date as 
of 3rd November), I can confirm that the problem is still there today:

Nov  3 09:01:53  kernel: [85668.293452] kactivitymanage[32057]: segfault at 
7f35e2794cd0 ip 7f35d004b291 sp 7fff55d905e8 error 4 in 
libQt5Sql.so.5.5.1[7f35d0037000+3f000]


On Sunday 01 November 2015 14:52:16 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> tag 803451 moreinfo
> thanks
> 
> Hi Andy! This is probably due to #802811, please update your system and try
> again.

Bug#801106: sddm-greeter fails to start

[Andy G Wood]

Many thanks Didi,

I can confirm that workaround "adduser sddm video" fixed the problem.

Bug#801122: plasma-workspace: Processes left running after exiting KDE

[Andy G Wood]

The cause of this may be related to the following, just spotted in the system 
log, after logout:

kernel: [11865.258104] kactivitymanage[3507]: segfault at 7f7cb586acd0 ip 
7f7c9992a1b1 sp 7ffef2dc4348 error 4 in 
libQt5Sql.so.5.4.2[7f7c99916000+3f000]

Andy.

Bug#638454: akonadi-kde-resource-googledata: Syncing Google Calendar always fails to retrieve events.

[Andy G Wood]

Package: akonadi-kde-resource-googledata
Version: 1.2.0-1+b1
Severity: important

Recently Google calendar syncing has been failing intermittantly.  Today I 
deleted my akonadi_gcal_resource
and re-created it.  Now it always fails to retrieve events.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages akonadi-kde-resource-googledata depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime 4:4.6.5-1runtime components from the offici
ii  kdepim-runtime  4:4.4.11.1-2 Runtime components for akonadi-kde
ii  libakonadi-kde4 4:4.6.5-1library for using the Akonadi PIM 
ii  libc6   2.13-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcal00.9.6-3  Google calendar and contacts libra
ii  libgcc1 1:4.6.1-4GCC support library
ii  libkabc44:4.6.5-1library for handling address book 
ii  libkcal44:4.6.5-1library for handling calendar data
ii  libkdecore5 4:4.6.5-2KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdeui5   4:4.6.5-2KDE Platform User Interface Librar
ii  libkio5 4:4.6.5-2Network-enabled File Management Li
ii  libkresources4  4:4.6.5-1KDE Resource framework library
ii  libqt4-dbus 4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-network  4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 network module
ii  libqt4-svg  4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 SVG module
ii  libqt4-xml  4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 XML module
ii  libqtcore4  4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4   4:4.7.3-5Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6  4.6.1-4  GNU Standard C++ Library v3

akonadi-kde-resource-googledata recommends no packages.

akonadi-kde-resource-googledata suggests no packages.

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