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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:25:54
Message-Id: 201002262323.20223.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Friday 26 February 2010 23:08:58 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 02/26/2010 10:32 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Freitag 26 Februar 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 > >> Is it normal that every KDE (4.4.0) application is generating an awful
5 > >> lot of debug messages on stderr? When I start one from the terminal (be
6 > >> it Dolphin, Konqueror or whatever) the output generated is pretty much
7 > >>
8 > >> gigantic. It's stuff like this:
9 > >> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
10 > >> QPainter::font: Painter not active
11 > >> QPainter::font: Painter not active
12 > >> QPainter::setFont: Painter not active
13 > >> QPainter::setPen: Painter not active
14 > >> QPainter::font: Painter not active
15 > >> konqueror(12426)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::createSlave: createSlave
16 > >> "file" for KUrl("file:///usr/share/apps/kdeui/about/box-top-
17 > >> middle.png")
18 > >> konqueror(12426)/kio (KIOConnection)
19 > >> KIO::ConnectionServer::listenForRemote: Listening on "local:/tmp
20 > >> /ksocket-realnc/konquerorb12426.slave-socket"
21 > >> kio_file(12429)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
22 > >> kio_file(12431)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
23 > >> kio_file(12433)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
24 > >> kio_file(12435)/kio (kioslave) KIO::SlaveBase::mimeType: "image/png"
25 > >> konqueror(12426)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::createSlave: createSlave
26 > >> "file" for KUrl("file:///usr/share/apps/kdeui/about/box-middle-
27 > >> left.png")
28 > >> kio_file(12443) kdemain: Starting 12443
29 > >> [...]
30 > >> [etc, etc, ad infinitum]
31 > >>
32 > >> Currently, after about 2 hours of uptime, my ~/.xsession-errors is about
33 > >> 12MB big and full with those debug messages.
34 > >>
35 > >> The "debug" USE flag is globally disabled. What's going on? I doubt
36 > >> this is intended behavior.
37 > >
38 > > the debug flag has nothing to do with this.
39 > > Why don't you open a nice bug at bugs.kde.org?
40 >
41 > I wanted to make sure first that this isn't some sort of configuration
42 > problem on my end. Can you confirm that this happens on your system too?
43
44 Happens here too. My error file is 38M
45
46 --
47 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 applications are spamming stderr to death Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>