November 2002 - openSUSE KDE - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Problems for updating to KDE 3.0.4
by Miguel Corbella 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

Hello to everybody, I wanted to update KDE 3.0.0 to KDE 3.0.4 but I have some problems : 1) I download all : Base, Aplications, etc ... rpm's from ftp site. Then I save them in a Cd-Rom. 2) I did : rpm -Uhv *.rpm (1st in Base, after in some Aplications) as per instruction of somebody in SUSE/KDE. 3) It appeared some dependencies errors with kdebase, kdelib, qt-3.0.5, etc ... 4) I forced updating with : rpm -Uhv --nodeps *.rpm and system updated everything but show an error that some carpets as wallpapers, etc ... were not empty, I don't know what does it mean ? 5) After reseting system, Control Center showed KDE version 3.0.4 ... OK. 6) When I tried to run any module of YAST2, it didn't work, why ? How can I resolve ? 7) Login background appear in GREY, why ? How can I resolve ? 8) I didn't change anything in the files sytem, because I don't know which files I have to change for making available KDE 3.0.4 for root and for normal users, and also I don't know how to modify them. Please help me. If I'm doing anythin wrong or there are a method for doing easier please advise. Thks n brgds Miguel Corbella

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Re: [suse-kde] Flashing Desktop under kde303
by Beatriz Botero 26 Nov '02

26 Nov '02

On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 15:49:01 +0100 Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer(a)home.nl> wrote: > > As a parody on RTFM, I would say: RTFL! ;-) where the L stands for Logs. > In other words: have you looked at the logs? Any error messages? Nope, no specific messages. > > What happens if you change to runlevel 3 ("init 3"), and issue a "startx". Any > error messages appear on the text console you typed "startx" on. There are severe differences, depending on the login, either as root or as user. In any case, there are dozens (!) of error messages, making the follow up extremly difficult. It seems to me, that there are severe problems, probably with the desktop, generated perhaps by the two systems (7.3 and the kde upgrade ) living together and I will try to install again both from the scratch and see what happens. Thanks for your help Beatriz -- Beatriz Botero H. Weinheim. Germany mailto:bbotero@gmx.de

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Stupid question around Kinternet
by Frank Jonathan Baule 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

I know it is an embarassing question and I already got the information that Kinternet is not exactly an KDE application, but still maybe someone can help me: The small icon of Kinternet always used to appear with the start of KDE, but my wife -at least I am not the one who did it- somehow closed it. I still can start Kinternet for example with <Alt><F2> but Kinternet does not start automatically anymore. I know there is a simple solution but I must admit that I forgot it. Bye Frank J. Baule -- "Use the Open Source, Luke."

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KMail won't start (segfault)
by KMcLauchlan＠chrysalis-its.com 25 Nov '02

25 Nov '02

Does anybody have a suggestion, please? I've been using SuSE 8.0 and KDE3 and KMail for a year at my office. I shut down (in orderly fashion) on a Friday evening and then booted on the Monday after the weekend. I got into KDE 3.0.4 with no problems, and then tried to start KMail. After some effort, the system responds with the you've-got-a problem dialog, saying that KMail has failed with signal 11 SIGSEGV. I clicked the "Backtrace" tab, and got the following: ******************** (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...[New Thread 1024 (LWP 1762)] (no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x413b5099 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x413b5099 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x4142fbd8 in __DTOR_END__ () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x4128d072 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x40a350de in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #4 0x4128aa74 in pthread_sighandler () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #5 <signal handler called> #6 0x0811a539 in KDialog::marginHint () #7 0x084ed820 in ?? () #8 0x08128cb0 in KDialog::marginHint () #9 0x08128d10 in KDialog::marginHint () #10 0x08128d10 in KDialog::marginHint () #11 0x08128d10 in KDialog::marginHint () #12 0x08128d10 in KDialog::marginHint () #13 0x08119abb in KDialog::marginHint () #14 0x081a05a4 in KDialog::marginHint () #15 0x081a4334 in KDialog::marginHint () #16 0x4132a9ed in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6 ******************** I have not tried every other application on my system, but those that I have been using don't seem to be broken... Anybody interpret what's wrong, here? Or, is there a HowTo or a website that can tell me how to interpret the above output? Meanwhile, I have done the following: - ran YOU, which reported that the most recent previous update had been 17 days ago - tried KMail again -- same symptoms. - re-installed kdenetworks and related pkgs, and then ran YOU again -- same symptoms (similarly after restarting X again). - created another user on my system -- KMail starts for that user, but of course does nothing because the user doesn't have a mail account on our company server... still, the program starts with no reported error - moved my own /home/kmclauchlan/Mail directory and it's subdirectories to a temp directory - tried starting KMail again -- no change - copied the virgin, empty /Mail directory structure from the "Otherguy" user into my home directory started KMail and it failed as usual with SIGSEGV before opening I'm baffled as to where to look. Why would the ONE program be segfaulting? How do you trace to see what it wants, that it's not getting? I didn't see any log files in /var/log that seemed to be KDE-related. (But, I'm getting crosseyed by now.) Does anybody know a good HowTo on "debugging Kommercial apps for Dummies" ?? Is anybody using directories with KMail, rather than MBOX? I was told, last year that this was preferable due to the server I'm connected to. I don't recall the reasoning. To re-iterate, everything has been working for months with no problem, right up until that Friday at 17h30. The next Monday morning... suddenly a problem. I have never run apt-get on this system. Only YOU. Hints? Suggestions? Some suggested reading? Thank you. /kevin

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Flashing Desktop under kde303
by Beatriz Botero 23 Nov '02

23 Nov '02

On a basis SuSE 7.3 installation I upgraded KDE to the 303 version compiling kdelibs and kdebase. Almost everything went going OK, with the exception of the surface of the desktop itself: it starts flashing with a frequency of nearly 2 flashes per second, and no icons at all shows up.The flashing stops after nearly one minute automatically and the gray background of the X server stays in place. There is no posibility to make changes on the desktop background through the control center menu. The panel is OK, all programs are accessible through the "K" icon in the panel. Working with the shell is also OK. Can somebody tell me, where I could start making changes ? Hints are highly appreciated, thanks, -- Beatriz Botero mailto:bbotero@gmx.de

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PixiePlus - autorotating diplay view?
by K Pfeiffer 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Having just upgraded to the so-far super SuSE 8.1, I'm re-discovering (and discovering) all sorts of wonderful KDE tools. Latest one is the image program/previewer "PixiePlus". Only problem is that my ImageCDs all display upsidedown images. :-( I can't see how to set PixiePlus to set the default preview to rotated 180deg. Is it possible? Or can someone recommende another "ACDC-like" image browser that might do this? I don't want to re-save _all_ the images rotated, simply display rotated previews automatically. -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen

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Re: [kde] Font problem.
by Jarl Friis 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj(a)acm.org> writes: > Jarl Friis wrote: > > Hi. > > I am new to this list. > > > I'm having font problems. Runing SuSE 8.1 with KDE3 I experience the > > > following font-problem. > > I launched Konqueror and went to google, and see that The fonts now > > > used to render google-buttons (and other text) does not render the > > danish characters "æ", "ø", "å". > > At first glance I worked around it and uninstalled some non8859-1 > > > fonts, but I consider this to be a hack. > > I note that whatever I do in Konquerors appearance settings the > > > font-selection does not change the appearance of google (in danish). > > I guess that is caused by google requesting a specific font family > > > (arial) hence the font-options (including encoding) under Konquerors > > appearance settings are ignored (or overruled by something). > > The source code for the page says: ISO 8859-1 and: "arial,sans-serif" > so there shouldn't be a problem. > > > What can I do? > > > Is this a bug? > > > > I think that this is a font problem. But, I am not sure what it is. I certainly was. I removed the kochi-gothic and kochi-'something-else' fonts that were only version 0.2 software. > > I tried Google in Dansk and the buttons and the line under them are > correct AFAIK (since I don't speak Dansk and my Deutsch is not very > good). > > > Søg på nettetSøg sider på Dansk > > This looks OK on Mozilla as well. The "a"s have a little circle over > them and the: "o"s have the diagonal line through them. I didn't see > the Latin a+e anywhere. Thank you very much for trying it out, and helping me. The a+e characters can be found in "Præferencer" and "Sprogværktøjer",i.e. "preferences" and "language tools" > > However, I do have the actual Arial True Type font installed. So do/did I. I just still haven't figured the pipeline from a HTML/CSS <style> specification saying "{font-family:arial,sans-serif;}" ends up being a fully qualified X-font name. Any documentations you can direct me to as regarding this font name resolving mechanism, involving KDE, Qt, X. > > Can you open Kcharselect and see if the "sans-serif" font that you are > using in Konqueror for web browsing has the characters which you need. You probably mean "kcharselect" which seems like a goo app. Now the behaviour of arial is as expected (respecting non-ascii characters) I will try to reinstall kochi-fonts, see if behaviour changes. > > > Also make sure that you have chosen ISO 8859-1 or ISO 8859-15 as your > default font. Well "use the encoding of the language" should suffice, right? > > Does it fix the problem to set the encoding: "View => Set Encoding"? No it didn't change anything. > > Also note FYI that if Qt can't find the correct font, it will look > through everything else and failing that, default to Helvetica and if > it can't find Helvetica, I think that it will just choose the first > one it finds. :-(. Thanks, any URL describing this in detail. Well the problem is no solved by uninstalling some japanese beta-fonts, yet I can't see why this should change the behaviour of non japanese text. Jarl

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Success! Re: [suse-kde] How do I export X desktop to remote Win2K machine ?
by Douglass Turner 22 Nov '02

22 Nov '02

Chris, Success. You did it dude. It all came down to finding the file kdmrc and enabling XDMCP. Thanks! Cheers, Douglass Turner email: dugla(a)excite.com > Hi, > > I succesfully managed to login on a KDE desktop on a windows 2000 machine > using Xmanager (Win2k) > > All I had 2 do was enable XDMCP broadcast on my Linux. > I've done this on SuSE 8.0 and 8.1 > > I believe the file is located somewhere in > /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/ > filename : kdmrc > In there you will have to change from false to true: > > [XDMCP] > Enabled = True > > THEN : > in /etc/X11/xdm > there are several files in here : > xdm-config > Xaccess > Xservers > Xresources > > here the only thing I changed was this : > in xdm-config : > uncomment the following : > DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 > > and in Xaccess set this: > > # First line for direct queries > * > # Following line for indirect queries > * CHOOSER BROADCAST > > THEN RESTART XSERVER > > Once all that is enabled you should see your Linux box pop up in Xmanager > Browser (http://www.netsarang.com/products/xmanager.html) > _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Problems with KrudMail messages (IncrediMail) in KMail
by K Pfeiffer 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

I get a lot of messages from students who use InCrediMail. This means I get an ugly quoted-printable text attachment and a bunch of image files. Eudora seems to be able to handle this mess, so I wonder if KMail can (or could)? -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen

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RE: [suse-kde] KMail won't start (segfault)
by KMcLauchlan＠chrysalis-its.com 21 Nov '02

21 Nov '02

> -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick [mailto:penguin0601@earthlink.net] > Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:36 PM [...] > Have you tried renaming your > /home/<user>/.kde > directory to something else and letting the whole thing be > created new > to see if that takes care of the problem? I renamed the /home/kmclauchlan/.kde directory, got out, restarted Linux and KDE, and tried KMail. RESULT: KMail started with the "Welcome" pane where my inbox would normally appear, which is expected result, since all the KDE configuration is now default, and my old Mail directory is still renamed and safely hidden. So KMail created new, empty, default directories. FURTHER RESULT: Then I quit the program... segfault! Ever since then, if I try to open the program, it churns for a while and then segfaults without ever opening, much the way it did before. My Outlook inbox now has 3910 messages, unsorted. The previous year of e-mail (70,000+ messages that I received in KMail up to the beginning of November when this segfault began) is tied up as numbered message files in the maildir directories that KMail won't open anymore. I'm going to have to give up soon, and let Outlook re-take ownership of my mail. The Exchange Server administrator is telling me that he is no longer willing for me to leave 4,000 messages on his server. Once I let Outlook sort and file them, and delete originals from the server, they'll be basically unreachable by linux mail if I ever get KMail working again. I've been hoping to get KMail fixed before I had to give in and let Outlook suck me back into Bill Gates' clutches. This is yucky. Sa-a-ave me from the Borg! :-) /kevin

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