On 3/22/2010 2:12 PM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 22/03/10 17:29, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 3/22/2010 3:58 AM, Tejas Guruswamy wrote:
On 22/03/10 04:09, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Oh well - Under the Versions tab YaST reports -
with a check mark - 2.2.90-57.7-x86_64 from vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE (installed)
with a toggle button - 2.3.0-61.1-x86_64 from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop with priority 99 and vendor obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
I suspect this is the cause of the problems. You have the KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop (which contains KDE4.4.1) repository installed but haven't upgraded all your packages uniformly (you've mixed versions and so are encountering library incompatibilities). Could you send your repository list? (output of "zypper lr" is easiest)
Anyway once we get the repository list sorted out you need to decide which KDE version you want and uniformly upgrade all your packages to that version (see http://en.opensuse.org/KDE).
Specifically decide if you want KDE4.3.x or KDE4.4.x. If you are using the PIM applications a lot (Kontact, KMail, etc.) I recommend you stay with KDE4.3 otherwise it should be fine to upgrade to KDE4.4.
Regards, Tejas
Thanks again Tejas - Yes I upgraded to KDE4.4.x as its ability to manage my desktop, plasmoids, and activities was much better than in KDE4.3.5 And I would prefer to stay with KDE4.4. I don't use the PIM applications a lot. Below is the output from the zypper command (I was not familiar with it, so thanks for the tips on using) I suspect you are probably right about my using inconsistent repositories, I don't always understand which repository I should get what from and try to follow instructions that I encounter as I install various apps.. Also will admit that some of these repositories, such as the BuildService ones were added as a guess, thinking that I would want updates to packages that those repositories seem to imply were where such components would be found. Others got added automagically for one reason or another... (Would be nice if YaST could better manage all this and suggest what apps could/should be loaded from what repository so as to remain consistent!)
Running the command - zypper se -si amarok confirmed that my version of Amarok came from the KDE:KDE4 Factory:Desktop repository.
nova:~ # zypper lr # | Alias | Name | Enabled | Refresh ---+-------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------+---------+--------
1 | 11.2 | 11.2 | Yes | Yes 2 | KDE:Community | KDE:Community | Yes | Yes 3 | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop | Yes | Yes 4 | Packman Repository | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes 5 | download.nvidia.com-opensuse | NVIDIA Repository | Yes | Yes 6 | download.opensuse.org-Backports | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:Backports | Yes | Yes 7 | download.opensuse.org-Community | openSUSE BuildService - KDE:KDE4:Community | Yes | Yes 8 | download.opensuse.org-STABLE | openSUSE BuildService - OpenOffice.org | Yes | Yes 9 | download.opensuse.org-Wine | openSUSE BuildService - Wine CVS Builds | Yes | Yes 10 | download.opensuse.org-games | openSUSE BuildService - Games | Yes | Yes 11 | download.opensuse.org-mozilla | openSUSE BuildService - Mozilla | Yes | Yes 12 | ftp.skynet.be-suse | Packman Repository | Yes | Yes 13 | home:theMarix:KDE:Community | home:theMarix:KDE:Community | Yes | Yes 14 | http-download.opensuse.org-922768fa | Updates for openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | Yes 15 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | openSUSE 11.2-0 | Yes | No 16 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.2-Debug | No | Yes 17 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes 18 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.2-Oss | Yes | Yes 19 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.2-Source | No | Yes [1]+ Done
That looks reasonable, running "zypper dup -r KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop" will bring your system to a uniform state. Hopefully that will fix the issues you are having. You should find that quite a few packages get upgraded.
I also recommend you uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer-0_10, the phonon-backend-xine is much more stable in my experience.
Regards, Tejas
Wow Tejas I am impressed! That zypper dup -r KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop command seemed to have made a huge number of package changes to my system.. Guess I better learn about zypper more, from what it appears to me it made a whole lot of packages consistent with each other. (Man I wish that was a discoverable command via YaST!) Anywise now the buttons I had reported as crashing their apps are now working. So appears we are making good progress.. But the projectM-pulseaudio visualization is still not being driven by sound output from Amarok yet... You asked me earlier what phonon backend I am using, and I can now report that it is Xine. Marc... -- Marc Chamberlin www.marcchamberlin.com A man said unto the universe - "Sir I Exist!" "However" replied the universe "I do not see where that creates in me a sense of an obligation" S Crane.