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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I have a patch for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.10.1 where do I send it?
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 21:34:04
Message-Id: 734bd74c-3b9d-0be3-d178-6aa1742fbc62@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I have a patch for kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.10.1 where do I send it? by "Håkon Alstadheim"
1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
2 >
3 > Den 08. juni 2017 22:46, skrev Dale:
4 >> Håkon Alstadheim wrote:
5 >>> Hi all I'd like to run the latest kde desktop , but stuff keeps
6 >>> crashing. Regular X just drops me right back at login, wayland lets me
7 >>> log in but has some issues.
8 >>>
9 >>> Among other things I am unable tune my keyboard settings. SIGSEGV on
10 >>> XInternAtom in kcms/keyboard/x11_helper.cpp .
11 >>>
12 >>> I found a report of a similar bug in digiKam on the web, and just for
13 >>> kicks I tried the attached patch. I am now able to change keyboard
14 >>> settings in plasma (wayland).
15 >>>
16 >>> So, how do I find out if this is fixed upstream, and if not where do I
17 >>> send a bug-report?
18 >>
19 >> It doesn't seem to be Gentoo's bug so I would start here:
20 >>
21 >> https://bugs.kde.org/
22 >>
23 >> If it is something Gentoo, file it on Gentoo's bug system.
24 >>
25 >> As to already reported, this is the only bug I found.
26 >>
27 >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367080
28 >>
29 >> I don't think that is the same problem. The other results were years
30 >> old. You may have found a bug and a solution as well, which they would
31 >> likely like to hear about. ;-)
32 >>
33 >> Hope that helps.
34 >>
35 >> Dale
36 >>
37 >> :-) :-)
38 >>
39 > I think it IS the same problem. Posted my patch to that bug, thanks for
40 > the help. My head was already swimming a bit after finding the problem.
41 > Turns out I already had a log-in for that page so the rest was easy :-) .
42 >
43 >
44
45 I wasn't sure if it was, didn't look like it to me, but included a link
46 just in case you recognized it and it was the same.
47
48 Glad to help and I'm sure they are glad to have a ready made fix for it
49 too. It may be that some others can even use the patch in the meantime,
50 if they compile their own packages.
51
52 Dale
53
54 :-) :-)