Akonadi and apparmor problem
I run unstable AMD64. Apparmor was installed on a routine update 3 days ago, preventing akonadi - and hence kmail -from starting on the next reboot. The error in akonadiselftest was: stderr: "Could not open required defaults file: /home/USER/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf\nFatal error in defaults handling. Program aborted\n" My machine is now apparmor free. It took me a couple of hours to track this down; offered up in the hope that someone else might save some time. -- anxiousmac
Applications 17.08 in NEW queue
I do recognise that the ftpmasters have a large workload and I am merely seeking information rather than trying to be pushy. KDE Applications 17.08 seem to have been waiting for approval for some time. Are there issues which need to be sorted out, or is it just a big task to work through them? anxiousmac
Re: Akonadi Database maintenance
On Saturday, 19 August 2017 18:10:03 UTC+1, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Dominique Dumont - 19.08.17, 10:56: > > On Thursday, 17 August 2017 23:23:56 CEST you wrote: > > > $ mysql_upgrade --socket mysql.socket > > > Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql > > > Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck > > > FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed > > > > This looks like mysql-client-core-5.7 is not installed ... > > Or mariadb-client-core-10.3 on Unstable. > > -- > Martin OK that was helpful. The issue for me was that this laptop has quite an old original installation. Somewhere along the way I changed to mariadb-client-core, but failed to update the legacy mysql server version from 5.6 to 5.7, so the tables were not updated. I have upgraded to the matching mariadb-server-core and reduced the number of errors in the server log from 60 to 2. I don't suppose many people deliberately run a mixture of mysql/mariadb in this way, so it might be worth adding a check in the selftest. It also took me a while to find out how to run /usr/bin/akonadiselftest after making changes as it doesn't seem all that obvious in the documentation. -- anxiousmac
Re: Akonadi Database maintenance
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:10:02 UTC+1, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > anxiousmac - 16.08.17, 01:34: > > This fails for me as I cannot connect to mysql as user or unix root. I'm > > don't know which users are enabled for the akonadi embedded mysql as > > opposed to the system one (not in fact installed on this machine) > > > > mysql_upgrade --socket ~/.local/share/akonadi/socket-hostname/mysql.socket > > Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql > > Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck > > Error: Failed while fetching Server version! Could be due to unauthorized > > access. FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed > > > > Any suggestions? > > I have no idea why it falls. > > You are running mysql_upgrade as the user Akonadi is running in? > > Is MySQL/MariaDB, well Akonadi, running? MySQL/MariaDB needs to run for the > command to be able to contact it. > > What does mysql.err log say? > > Thanks, > -- > Martin akonadiserverrc in .config suggests that one is using the system /usr/sbin/mysqld and the other (broken) one /usr/sbin/mysqld-akonadi. I will have to investigate further but don't have time now.
Re: Akonadi Database maintenance
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:10:02 UTC+1, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > anxiousmac - 16.08.17, 01:34: > > This fails for me as I cannot connect to mysql as user or unix root. I'm > > don't know which users are enabled for the akonadi embedded mysql as > > opposed to the system one (not in fact installed on this machine) > > > > mysql_upgrade --socket ~/.local/share/akonadi/socket-hostname/mysql.socket > > Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql > > Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck > > Error: Failed while fetching Server version! Could be due to unauthorized > > access. FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed > > > > Any suggestions? > > I have no idea why it falls. > > You are running mysql_upgrade as the user Akonadi is running in? > > Is MySQL/MariaDB, well Akonadi, running? MySQL/MariaDB needs to run for the > command to be able to contact it. > > What does mysql.err log say? > > Thanks, > -- > Martin The mysql.err on the laptop is full of complaints about native tables from performance_schema having the wrong structure. using ps ax | grep mysql to pick up the socket name I can connect to mysql using mysql -u root -S on both my desktop and my laptop. msql> status; then reads -- mysql Ver 14.14 Distrib 5.7.18, for Linux (x86_64) using EditLine wrapper Connection id: 135 Current database: Current user: root@ SSL:Not in use Current pager: stdout Using outfile: '' Using delimiter:; Server version: 5.6.35-1 (Debian) Protocol version: 10 Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket Server characterset:utf8 Db characterset:utf8 Client characterset:utf8 Conn. characterset:utf8 UNIX socket:/tmp/akonadi.socket Uptime: 1 hour 18 min 48 sec But on one machine mysql-upgrade -u root -S works and on the other it doesn't
Re: Akonadi Database maintenance
On Wednesday, 16 August 2017 08:40:02 UTC+1, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hello. > > I am just forwarding it for all users that are using KMail / KDEPIM. > > I think you Akonadi shouldn´t require you to be a database admin, but maybe > my simple tips may be of some help to you. Usually MySQL will run even > without > being upgraded… however there are chances it will run *better* if you keep it > up to date. And it will create less noise in the log. > > Thank you, > Martin > > -- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -- > > Betreff: Database maintenance > Datum: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017, 09:33:28 CEST > Von: Martin Steigerwald > An: kdepim-us...@kde.org > > Hello. > > Today I found again some errors in mysql.err, that some innodb stats table > does not exist. There are wild help blog posts available to create those > manually by pasting page long mysql create statements into your mysql client. > Don´t. > > In my case the errors didn´t prevent startup of Akonadi, but I still wanted > to > clean MySQL log file again. In my company accoun even the complete mysql > database was missing… I don´t want to know anything about why that is the > case. It might be that I messed it up at some time… even with a time machine > I > wouldn´t know to what time to go back to exactly check what happened there. > > Anyway, in case you have messages like missing tables in mysql or information > database and things like that, or even on any major MySQL or in my case > MariaDB update, you can just run: > > mysql_upgrade --socket ~/.local/share/akonadi/socket-merkaba/mysql.socket > > while MySQL is running. Says: While Akonadi is running. > > Of course to complete the maintenance you can also run: > > akonadictl fsck > > and > > akonadictl vacuum > > (later only if you have enough free space) > > > In my point of view Akonadi should handle at least the mysql_upgrade thing > automatically (or not use a RDMS). It shall not require the user to be a > database admin. > > Of course it can also help to document the above in user wiki. Feel free to > copy&paste if you go about it. > > Thanks, > -- > Martin > > - > -- > Martin This fails for me as I cannot connect to mysql as user or unix root. I'm don't know which users are enabled for the akonadi embedded mysql as opposed to the system one (not in fact installed on this machine) mysql_upgrade --socket ~/.local/share/akonadi/socket-hostname/mysql.socket Looking for 'mysql' as: mysql Looking for 'mysqlcheck' as: mysqlcheck Error: Failed while fetching Server version! Could be due to unauthorized access. FATAL ERROR: Upgrade failed Any suggestions?
Digikam installable on Sid
Steve Robbins appears to have given us an early Christmas present. 4.14 rather than the 5.0 betas, but it's good enough for me! Many thanks. anxiousmac
Muon and sound problems
On my 386 unstable laptop, Muon has to be killed with CA-Esc as the close button seems to be unrecognised. Nothing appears in konsole at that stage if I start it from there On my amd 64 unstable desktop, Muon has recently started to complain: "This operation cannot continue since proper authorisation was not provided" Polkit-kde-agent-1 is installed and reinstalled and I have rebooted. This is doubly irritating as I am also falling foul of a bug which maximises the sound volume every time kde pops up a notification dialog. KDE's bug tracker implies this is fixed, but not for me. Some people who listen on headphones find it quite upsetting; for me it means I had better remember to turn the speakers off if I don't want to wake the household when working at night. Does anyone have any suggestions? Google has given me mostly background noise rather than solutions. anxiousmac
Re: Digikam
On Sunday, 4 October 2015 17:00:02 UTC+1, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez wrote: > > Current uploaders are either busy or not interested. > > If someone with packaging experience wants to take over digikam I'll gladly > help, but you *definitely* need packaging experience, it's not currently an > easy pick. > > As long as no one steps up for doing the maintenance work digikam will not be > updated. > > Kinds regards, Lisandro. > It is obvious that the current uploaders are busy, which is why I didn't simply post asking when digikam would be updated. Thanks for the clear statement, which enables digikam users to plan appropriately. I suspect I'll run an alternative distro on a usb stick for the uncommon occasions when I need it. anxiousmac
Digikam
Does anyone have any experience of installing/running the tarball version on Debian unstable? Or would Ubuntu packages be better? I'm doing my best to maintain a pure Debian system, but I could really do with Digikam again. I suppose an alternative would be a chroot, then I could wipe it if/when Digikam becomes installable again. anxiousmac
Re: Plasma desktop unusable in stretch
On Thursday, 3 September 2015 09:20:02 UTC+1, Christian Hilberg wrote: > Hi Brad, > > Am Mittwoch 02 September 2015, 16:16:10 schrieb Brad Rogers: > > On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:21:47 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > Hello Gary, > > > > >Yesterday I rebooted my computer but when it came back up and I logged > > >in, Plasma was no longer usable. > > > > Come on Gary, you've been on this ML long enough to know that KDE is > > going through some *massive* changes ATM. The path from KDE4 to > > KF5/Plasma is far from an easy one to tread. Not least because of the > > change to GCC v5. KF5/Plasma is very, /very/ different from KDE4. It's > > not a huge surprise, to me at any rate, that some packages don't (yet) > > have their dependencies sorted out fully. > > > > If one finds, when doing an update, it's necessary to remove large > > numbers of packages to get everything updated then one should pause and > > consider; Do I really want to lose half of my software suite? Usually > > the answer is "no". In that case, see what can be updated without > > ripping the heart out of your system. > > > > Testing sometimes has breakage. Sometimes that breakage is big. You > > just have to deal with it. If you can't > > > > there's always stable. > > To me, that kind of breakage (due to the transitions KDE4->KF5 *and* > GCC4->GCC5 at the same time) is what we're used to see in unstable. > This is what unstable is for, imho. > > By letting these transitions happen simultaneously in unstable as well > as testing, the ML became flooded with all-the-same-topic mails over > and over, because many people are using testing who do so because they > like to be more recent than stable while not daring enough to expedition > into unstable land. > > I guess it might have been wiser to let the transitions happen in > unstable, since the massive breakage you mention was to be expected, > and have the smaller issues and oversights ironed out in testing. > This scheme worked out quite well in the past. > > Kind regards, > Christian If we don't want breakage, we have to use stable. The primary purpose of testing is to develop the next release, not necessarily to produce a user-focused version of stable with newer packages. Last time I looked, warnings about this were liberally included in Debian documentation and wiki pages. I have had my fair share of breakages using unstable, and trying to find my way out of them is usually quite educational. If I'm too busy at the time, I can always ssh my way to my data from another machine. Failing that, a live image. anxiousmac
Re: GCC 5 transition
Delighted to note that kontact has become installable in unstable again today. Thanks to the team.
Display problem
I'm running unstable on an 8Gb quad-core system. I have had a Dell Ultrasharp U2515H 2560 by 1440 pixel display. The Graphics card is a Radeon HD6450 using DisplayPort. The startup messages are frequently unreadable but I get a great desktop display and TTYs I have been upgrading kde as I go along. Ever since I got the setup, the display occasionally becomes solarised, pastel and distorted when left alone. Logging out of plasma is enough to sort it. I don't think I have found anything useful in .xsession-errors or the xorg.0.log. This has persisted through various plasma and xorg upgrades Any suggestions? anxiousmac
Re: GCC 5 transition
On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 23:20:02 UTC+1, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi, > [snipped] Thanks to both of you anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/b860b28c-0a26-4ef6-8c87-661fcb11a...@googlegroups.com
GCC 5 transition
A week ago I stupidly upgraded my unstable amd64 system whilst half asleep (muon does not seem as insistent on warning you about potential removals), losing kontact, muon and a few other things. I was also affected by the need to downgrade breeze to get the desktop to boot. I can see enormous amounts of work going on on the qt-kde mailing list, so this is not any sort of a complaint, but does anyone know how long it might be before I can reinstall the lost packages? I have been quite good at fixing my unstable problems over the years, but this one has me a bit beaten. Do I still need to hold the breeze packages too? anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/dd7f2620-5fb4-4410-ab8a-83c72c21a...@googlegroups.com
Re: Mounting usb stick using device notifier - not writable
Excellent. Failed to mention this is in /etc/fstab On Friday, 24 July 2015 14:00:03 UTC+1, anxio...@gmail.com wrote: > This isn't really a Plasma/KDE problem, but in case anyone else is puzzled by > it I thought I'd post a solution here. > > On my laptop (long established) usb sticks show up under /media/angus/Lexar > and are writable. > > On my newly installed quad core (MoBo discarded by my son, but more than good > enough for me) they kept showing up under /media/usb0 and were not writable. > > Following a few hours lost in the joys of udisksctl monitor, dbus monitor and > udev, I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if > one needs firmware from a stick during installation a line such as > > "/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0" > > may be left behind by the installer. Commenting this out allows the expected > writable kde mount point to be used. > > The bug #779208 has been closed 6 months ago, but I installed about three > weeks ago from a netinstall image and it bit me. > > anxiousmac > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/fe98c64b-c2d6-47fe-8409-b6e022eaa...@googlegroups.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5b5c16b2-916a-4f19-9aeb-6592c65bc...@googlegroups.com
Mounting usb stick using device notifier - not writable
This isn't really a Plasma/KDE problem, but in case anyone else is puzzled by it I thought I'd post a solution here. On my laptop (long established) usb sticks show up under /media/angus/Lexar and are writable. On my newly installed quad core (MoBo discarded by my son, but more than good enough for me) they kept showing up under /media/usb0 and were not writable. Following a few hours lost in the joys of udisksctl monitor, dbus monitor and udev, I happened upon a debian-installer bug report which points out that if one needs firmware from a stick during installation a line such as "/dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 autorw,user,noauto 0 0" may be left behind by the installer. Commenting this out allows the expected writable kde mount point to be used. The bug #779208 has been closed 6 months ago, but I installed about three weeks ago from a netinstall image and it bit me. anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/fe98c64b-c2d6-47fe-8409-b6e022eaa...@googlegroups.com
Re: No more network manager icon since upgrade.
There's a plasma widget called "Networks" which works for me. But my needs are simple. I deleted the previous one and installed that Anxiousmax -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/ca389a43-1391-43bd-8016-dec44c34a...@googlegroups.com
Re: Missing window controls
On Wednesday, 15 July 2015 12:00:02 UTC+1, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2015 09:41:11 Angus Mackenzie wrote: > > Which package (s) am I likely missing? > > kwin-x11 > > -- > GPG: 0x138E41915C7EFED6 Thanks, Diederik. The other problem I had was that file finder and wallpaper selector dialogs didn't have content and didn't work Installing kio solved that. anxiousmac -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/bbb282ed-c652-41d6-9ef2-2951988ef...@googlegroups.com
