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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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[KDE4 problems] |
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> And so on. But it's not so bad I cannot work with it (well, sometimes |
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> it is, and then I have to fix it, like when the password dialog no |
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> longer accepted passwords), and so I keep using it, waiting it to |
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> become really stable and usable. |
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And another weekend of KDE4 trouble. I rebooted after some upgrades, along |
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those were Qt and MySQL. Now, plasma-desktop crashed, also when restarting |
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it on the command line. So again I renamed the .kde4 directory and got one |
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from my last backup. The desktop came up, but kmail failed, due to akonadi |
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not finding its database. I thought it had to do with the mysql update so |
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I masked that one and tried to build an older version, but it did not |
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build. Now I see this was not the old version I had running, but something |
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in between. |
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Anyway, the problem was another one, I had to rebuild qt-sql. |
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I had some Qt blockers during the last @world update that the newest |
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portage did not resolve, so I did an emerge -1av $( qlist -I qt- ) - after |
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this, @world was updateable. Maybe this emerge -1 stuff was the problem, I |
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have no idea. |
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Then I wanted my last session back, as I had changed some things since the |
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last backup and I also wanted my konqueror sessions - no idea where those |
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are stored. So again I took the .kde directory (A) which was not working |
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and the one from the last backup (B), and moved files from B to A until A |
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was working again. And did so until I found which exact file was |
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responsible for plasma-desktop not running (it was share/config/plasma- |
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desktop-appletsrc). |
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I had to reboot many times, because when KDE4 was running and plasma |
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crashed, I had no way to log out adn had to restart the X server. And when |
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switching to a text console and back to the newly started X server, I get |
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an empty display on all consoles, probably due to the fglrx drivers. I |
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know that already, but as I did not got any other drivers to run, I am |
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stuck with ati-drivers. At least I have desktop effects and stuff running. |
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You can lose a lot of time with this. And I am wondering if KDE4 is the |
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right thing for me. On the one hand, I like it very much. And it is |
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getting better and better. I just discovered that I can tab windows, this |
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is soo cool. |
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On the other hand, from time to time I have show-stoppers, and then I |
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cannot use kmail, or no KDE4 at all. And have to invest time to solve |
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this. And there are these annoying things. Like Amarok being very |
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unstable, and taking 5 minutes to start. What the heck is it doing in this |
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time? And KDE4 is slow. That maybe another problem, something seems to be |
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wrong here, I'd expect the system to be faster, and not make any pauses |
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when emerge is running (niced to 19 and also ioniced). I do not want to |
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wait for seconds when switching desktops (sometimes its fast, sometimes |
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not). |
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Sorry for the whining, |
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Wonko |
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