[SOLVED] Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

[local10]

Nov 29, 2018, 3:52 PM by etienne.moll...@mailoo.org:

> I'm not a user of Kvirc myself, sticking to irssi.  However, out
> of curiosity, I installed kvirc in a fully fledged KDE
> environment (package task-kde-desktop) to see if I could
> reproduce the problem.  And I believe I've been able to pinpoint
> something.
>
> It would seem that there is a trap with the naming convention of
> the configuration *file* ~/.config/kvirc and the configuration
> *directory* called ~/.config/KVIrc.  I've got both of these at
> the end of a clean install, and after the first pass of the
> wizard:
>
>  ~/.config/KVIrc/
>  ~/.config/kvirc
>

Yes.


> Currently, is your ~/.config/kvirc a file or a directory storing
> your configuration ?
>
> If that is a directory storing your configuration, what happens
> if you rename it as, say, ~/.config/KVIrc and try to load this
> one configuration directory instead?
>

I actually noticed it too and tried the trick with renaming directories before 
I filed the bug, it did not work for me. Now trying different things I found 
the winning combination I think that solves the issue:

1. Rename "old" ~/.config/kvirc into ~/.config/KVIrc
2. Create ~/.config/kvirc file (file, not folder) as follows:

$ ls -l ~/.config/kvirc
-rw--- 1 luser luser 76 Nov 29 17:34 /home/luser/.config/kvirc

$ cat ~/.config/kvirc
[Main]
LocalKvircDirectory=/home/luser/.config/KVIrc/
SourcesDate=538312962

The above solves the issue for me. The bug stands though as something really 
does not work right in the setup wizard.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

[Étienne Mollier]

local10, on 2018-11-29:
> Nov 27, 2018, 7:24 PM by loca...@tutanota.com:
> > Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of
> > annoying and there's no response from the maintenance team:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420
>
> Anyone using Kvirc at all? Thanks

Good Day,

I'm not a user of Kvirc myself, sticking to irssi.  However, out
of curiosity, I installed kvirc in a fully fledged KDE
environment (package task-kde-desktop) to see if I could
reproduce the problem.  And I believe I've been able to pinpoint
something.

It would seem that there is a trap with the naming convention of
the configuration *file* ~/.config/kvirc and the configuration
*directory* called ~/.config/KVIrc.  I've got both of these at
the end of a clean install, and after the first pass of the
wizard:

~/.config/KVIrc/
~/.config/kvirc

Currently, is your ~/.config/kvirc a file or a directory storing
your configuration ?

If that is a directory storing your configuration, what happens
if you rename it as, say, ~/.config/KVIrc and try to load this
one configuration directory instead?

Kind Regards,
-- 
Étienne Mollier 

Re: Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

[local10]

Nov 27, 2018, 7:24 PM by loca...@tutanota.com:

> Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of annoying and there's 
> no response from the maintenance team:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420 
> 
>

Anyone using Kvirc at all? Thanks

Buster: Kvirc: Bug 908420: Am I the only one who's having this issue?

[local10]

Hi,

Am I the only one who's having this issue? It's kind of annoying and there's no 
response from the maintenance team:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908420 


Regards,