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Whoops, sorry for the other posting. Suddenly this mail got sent, and some |
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empty kmail windows opened. Probably due to this effect I sometimes |
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experience: The last keypress gets repeated all over the time, and when I |
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move the mouse over other windows weird things may happen. Pressing keys |
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like Ctrl-Alt-Shift stops it after a while. |
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Mick writes: |
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> Before you read specific answers below, you may want to check: |
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> $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS |
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> /usr/local/share:/usr/share |
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> in your logs is shows: |
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> Environment variable XDG_DATA_DIRS is set to |
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> '/usr/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share' |
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> Why is /usr/share in there twice? Could this mess things up? |
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Seems to be normal, I also have this with a fresh setup. |
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> On 17 June 2010 00:23, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> [snip ...] |
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> > Mick wrote: |
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> >> On Tuesday 09 March 2010 20:12:09 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > But: There are errors when akonadi is starting up during login. I |
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> > think it did not do this when I wrote the last mail, but probably |
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> > this is the problem now for the migration does not work. I attached |
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> > the error parts of the log. |
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> Can you run /etc/init.d/dbus restart before you try again? Your |
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> akonadi log complains about dbus (amidst other things). |
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This service is running - I think KDM did not even come up when I had it |
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off once. This must be some KDE-internal dbus error. |
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> > And I looked for your posting, and searched all of my gentoo-user |
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> > archive, but somehow I did not find it. If you think it would help |
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> > in my case, and if you still have it at hand, it would be nice if |
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> > you could direct me to it (the subject would be enough). |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/224044 |
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Thanks! Now I remember reading it. |
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> >>> I tried to figure out what this was, and how to get the error |
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> >>> message in English, but then I found out that I only have to |
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> >>> restart kontact. Fine, now I want to add a contact. First, when I |
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> >>> want to edit the location, the country is set to Afghanistan, I |
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> >>> always have to change this to Germany. |
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> >>> Annoying, why is this so, who would want this behaviour, except for |
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> >>> Afghans perhaps. |
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> >> |
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> >> Have you tried to set up your locale in systemsettings to Germany? |
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> > Yes, it's set like that. |
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> Have you set up your local timezone in /etc/conf.d/clock, in case this |
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> affects it? |
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It's set correctly. I'd guess Afghanistan ist simpy the first entry in the |
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list of countries, and no one bothered to make the user's country default. |
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Or do you have another default? |
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> > - Strigi indexes some directory over and over again and again and |
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> > again and again. And again and again. Then it crashes, and when I |
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> > re-activate it, it indexes the folder again and again and again. And |
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> > so on. |
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> You may want to switch off strigi in systemsettings? |
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That's what I do. But still I'd like to use those desktop indexing |
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features. |
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> BTW, have you tried removing ~/.kde4 and then login into KDE afresh? |
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Boy, do I hate to do this. Getting all the settings back takes so much |
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work. But now I did it anyways. It took me several hours, and still not |
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everying is back as it was, but at least I have I cleaner setup now. |
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This desktop activity stuff is a mess to set up. I have 8 desktops for |
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different things I do, each one with its own activity. That is, those KDE |
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plasmoids appear on that desktop only, not on every one. But while you can |
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send a window to any desktop easily, moving a plasmoid from one activity |
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to another does not seem to be possible. When I accidentally selected |
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Enlightenment-KDE instead of Enlightenment, KDE4 started up with |
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Enlightenment as window manager, which messed up the location of each |
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desktop. I had to edit stuff in .kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop- |
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appletsrc by hand to correct this. |
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Impressions: |
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Some things are indeed fixed. |
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- Konqueror now respects the setting that it should ask before closing a |
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window with multiple tabs. |
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- Dolphin no longer opens maximized. |
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- Ark no longer opens the home directory with dolphin when extracting |
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files. |
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- And Akonadi starts without errors! Except for the last login, when again |
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no resource agents were found. Did not happen again (yet). |
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KDE4 Problems that still happen: |
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- Strigi scans already indexed files, then crashes. Repeats a cuple of |
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times, then exits. Syslog shows sefgaults in nepomukservices. |
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- Dolphin FTP does not work with Umlauts. And I have to enter the password |
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twice. |
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- Konsole profiles have to be activated in the profile dialog before they |
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show up in the menu. |
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- Kmail did not save this e-mail, I lost my edits when my whole system |
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just crashed. Now I wonder what _this_ was. |
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- Sessions are often saved incorrectly. Then some konquerors are missing, |
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a dolphin is on the wrong desktop. |
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- At session startup, konqueror always complains it dies unexpectedly and |
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offers to restore the session, unless I close every instance before |
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logout. |
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- This session restore of konquereror works sometimes, and sometimes not. |
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And all konqueror windows it opens belong to the same process, so when one |
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window dies, all die. |
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- No automatic spell checking in kmail. And no English language to select, |
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only German. |
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- When the desktop is locked, the password dialog sometimes does not |
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accept the password. It is all lowercase letters, letter position |
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independent of keyboard layout. Switching to a text console and back |
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helped. Oh, did I already mention that sometimes when switching back into |
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graphics mode, I get an empty screen, and have to reboot then? |
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- Under heavy load, when switching to a locked desktop, it sometimes takes |
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quite a while until it blanks and the password dialog appears. In the |
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meantime, it probably cannot be used, but at least everything is clearly |
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visible. |
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- Trying to move a plasmoid from the panel onto the desktops crashes |
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plasma. |
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- This plasma stuff has its problems. Sometimes plasmoids have the wrong |
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position, or refuse to be dragged or changed in size (they return to the |
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former state after the operation). |
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- I thought it was gone... but then again the mouse only worked in parts |
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of the active window. When I close it via keyboard, the next active |
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windows becomes partially responsive to the mouse. I have to log out then. |
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- KDE4 eats A LOT of memory. I have about 30 tabs open in konquerors, this |
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alone is 1 GB after a while. And X is not much less. |
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- nspluginviewer processes often eat a lot of CPU power. So I frequently |
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kill them with killall nspluginviewer, I have a little button for this |
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purpose in the panel. And system loads gets much lower. It's still quite |
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high, though. |
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- I'm sure I forgot some. |
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Other frequent problems: |
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- This repeating key problem I mentioned. And sometimes I have some sort |
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of caps lock feature, but for Ctrl or Alt. I can remove it by pressing all |
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those meta keys at once. |
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- After using the fullscreen mode of VMware, modifier keys like alt, shift |
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and ctrl stopped working, except inside an NX session I had also running. |
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- Starting a specific program that ready 1.5 GB of data just made the |
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system hang for two times. The Magic SysRq stuff worked, although I did |
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not get out of graphics mode, so I had to reboot. |
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- Suspending to RAM does not work at all. |
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- Hibernating with TuxOnIce works sometimes, but sometimes resuming stops |
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with some "Opening LUKS. Killed." message, or the suspend image is ignored |
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and a normal boot happens. |
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- I have a Radeon HD 3200. I tried the radeon drivers instead of ati- |
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drivers (fglrx), but did not get acceleration ([dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion |
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failed (libdri too old)). But thats's still be best result I ever got with |
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tose drivers. I removed the blocking ati-drivers and updated to xorg 1.8, |
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then radeon worked with acceleration. But when I move the mouse onto the |
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panel in KDE4, X dies instantly without anything in syslog except for a 'X |
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server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly' message. |
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- mplayer sometimes play videos with colors totally messed up, like if |
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some parameter like brightness or gamme was set realyl really high, so |
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sometimes nothing at all can be seen. |
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Wonko |