How to report kde bug?
I'm using adept to update then upgrade my debian etch system and it wants to replace the kernel and gives a message: """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Configuring linux-image-2.6.18-6-486 The kernel version running is the same as the one being installed... I repeat: you have to reboot in order for the modules file to be created correctly. Until you reboot, it may be impossible to load some modules. ... """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Unfortunately there seems no way of getting to the prompt to get the upgrade to proceed (as there would if one were doing an apt-get upgrade from a console) so the procedure hangs there. "This is a bug" I think. So I go Help->Report Bug and get a window """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" To submit a bug report click on the button below. This will open a web browser windows on http://bugs.kde.org where you will find a form to fill in. The information displayed above will be transferred to that server. [ Launch Bug Report Wizard ] """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" I click the bug report button ... and wait ... and wait ... and nothing happens :-( (The button does momentarily go to depressed then back to normal so I think it's registered my mouse click.) Manually going to bugs.kde.org I get told that I can't report bugs on my version of kde (3.5.5) even though it's the current one as far as my distro is concerned, so where do I go from here? Just live with it I guess. Anyone know when the next release of Debian is out, or if there'll be an upgrade for the broken stuff within the etch cycle? -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
konqueror quick copy/move plugin lost in etch upgrade
A recent upgrade (adept rather than apt-get IIRC) caused konqueror to lose the right-click file copy/move options. Much faffing around, googling, usenetting and head-scratching later I find that these actions are in a plugin that's bundled in konq-plugins which is not installed by default. I don't know whether it used to be included with the konqueror package and it's been moved to konq-plugins, or if it was always in the -plugins package but that has changed to no longer being installed by default. (I'm guessing that an upgrade can uninstall something that was previously installed.) The bottom line is that a routine 'upgrade' broke things so that functionality that was there before was lost, which is a Bad Thing (tm) IMHO. -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Koffice brokenness on sarge
I did apt-get install koffice I rather expected some entries in the kde menu for the apps but no, so tried: $ kword koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kword's desktop file. Check yourinstallation ! $ kivio koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Couldn't find the native MimeType in kivio's desktop file. Check yourinstallation ! Googled the error message and got some clue that kbuildsycoca might help so: $ kbuildsycoca 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: Property 'X-KDE-Weight' is defined multiple times (KOfficeFilter) kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file Utilities/kfilereplacepart.desktop has Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : Utilities/kfilereplacepart.desktop kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/themus-theme-applier.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-gnome-theme-installed' ... lots more "undefined mimetype/servicetype ..." Now when I try kivio or kword I get a blank window with the title bar and window control buttons. These work but when I try to close the window I get "Window with title "KWord" is not responding. This window belongs to application kword (PID=30813, hostname=localhost). Do you wish to terminate this application? (All unsaved data in this application will be lost.)" Also, after leaving kword in the state where it was asking me if I wanted to terminate the app (but hadn't actually done so) it hung my desktop. I was able to Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a tty and kill kword and Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to the gui but for a few minutes the taskbar showed no menu icon or clock or various other things, though it _was_ showing the kword process icons on the taskbar, and clicking other processes on the taskbar produced no response. Eventually it came back to life and seems to be working OK again. Any suggestions (beside uninstalling koffice :-) (Actually that's not a showstopper: I only installed it to try it, I normally use OOo so I can live without koffice.) -- John Stumbles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
include ~/bin in $PATH under kde on debian (sarge)
On kubuntu (and SuSE, IIRC) if I have a ~/bin directory it gets included
in my $PATH but this doesn't happen under debian. (In all cases I'm
using kde with kdm as my window manager.)
The ~/.bash_profile of any new users I create has:
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# the rest of this file is commented out.
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
#if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
#PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
#fi
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
In my own .bash_profile I have uncommented the last 4 lines above but
even after logging out from kde and back in again my $PATH does not
include ~/bin (although it does work if I log in on a tty e.g.
Ctrl-Alt-F1). Thus it would seem that .bash_profile is not run on
startup under kde (nor under gnome, both under kdm).
If I put the code above i.e.
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
into my .bashrc it does set $PATH for terminals (e.g. konsole) but
anything I try to run in ~/bin from K menu->Run Command is not found
unless I prefix it with ~/bin.
I have also tried putting the code into .xsession.
There seems to be a mechanism in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/50xfree86-common_determine-startup
for running this file
# If no X session startup program was passed to the Xsession script as
\ an
# argument (e.g., by the display manager), or if that program was not
# executable, fall back to looking for a user's custom X session script,
\if
# allowed by the options file.
if [ -z "$STARTUP" ]; then
if grep -qs ^allow-user-xsession "$OPTIONFILE"; then
for STARTUPFILE in "$USERXSESSION" "$ALTUSERXSESSION"; do
if [ -e "$STARTUPFILE" ]; then
if [ -x "$STARTUPFILE" ]; then
STARTUP="$STARTUPFILE"
else
STARTUP="sh $STARTUPFILE"
fi
break
fi
done
fi
fi
The options file:
OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
contains the necessary permission, but $STARTUP must be getting set (I
can't see where or how from looking at Xsession or the other startup
files in Xsession.d) as .xsession is not being run. (I added a command
to create a timestamped tag file whenever .xsession is run and it's not
being run at X session startup.)
I've googled www and usenet and searched debian lists but not found an
answer to the question of setting the environment for my whole X
session, not just for console session within X.
I would also like to understand what happens when a gui session starts
under kdm - what scripts etc get run?
--
John Stumbles
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