kde March 2012

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Re: KMail issues
by Rex Dieter 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

On 03/11/2012 12:31 PM, Eli Wapniarski wrote: > Nah... thats not it. I get this happening with lots of different sources. Tech > Republic, CNET etc. It more than likely a problem that has its bases in > Konqueror. But thats just a wild guess. don't guess. It actually solves one large class of "kmail crashes on html mail", really. :) -- rex > On Sunday 11 March 2012 12:24:17 Rex Dieter wrote: >> On 03/11/2012 11:42 AM, John Aldrich wrote: >>> I've reported this problem, but the developers don't seem to care about it >>> -- I regularly receive HTML messages and if I click on the link to render >>> the HTML and/or load external pictures, it will often cause KMail (Kmail >>> 2) to crash. >> >> For giggles, if you happen to have flash-plugin installed, to uninstall >> it (temporarily) if that helps? >> >> If so, you're experiencing a flash-plugin bug (fixed in 11.2beta and newer) >> >> -- rex >> _______________________________________________ >> kde mailing list >> kde(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde >> New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org >

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KMail issues
by John Aldrich 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

I've reported this problem, but the developers don't seem to care about it -- I regularly receive HTML messages and if I click on the link to render the HTML and/or load external pictures, it will often cause KMail (Kmail 2) to crash. Of course, since I don't have the debugging symbols loaded, it doesn't do a darn bit of good to click on "report" especially as it seems to not want to interface with bugs.kde.org. :( IIRC someone said it has to do with the app that is being used to render the HTML, but that it was hard-coded so couldn't be changed. Anyone know if this is the case or if there's a "fix" in the works?

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akonadi issues with 4.8.1
by Christos Lazaridis 11 Mar '12

11 Mar '12

Anyone else getting messages like these? "Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend)" When starting plasma-desktop or kontact such entries show up in .xsession-errors: > plasma-desktop(7084)/libakonadi > Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::fetchJobDone: Job error: "Unknown error. > (Unable to fetch item from backend)" for collection: 161 They started showing up after the 4.8.1 update. Was ok with 4.8.0. Christos. -- .................................................................. :: Christos Lazaridis +41 76 26 82453 ( cell ) :: :: CERN/EN-MEF-LE (530 R-014) +41 22 76 62789 ( office ) :: :: Machines & Experimental Facilities Group :: :: http://chrislaz.net :: :: :: :: There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, :: :: makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. :: :: Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, :: :: but always I fall short of the things I dream. :: :: ~ H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau :: ..................................................................

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smooth-tasks crashes plasma
by Eli Wapniarski 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Hi After upgrading from 4.8 to 4.8.1 smooth-tasks crashes plasma Bug reported upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295583 Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Analog Clock Causing Weird Problems
by Richard Heck 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Hi, all, If I put the analog clock widget on my desktop, then I get a series of errors when KDE starts, viz: Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module-udev-detect.c: inotify_init1() failed: Too many open files Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-udev-detect" (argument: ""): initialization failed. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Module load failed. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2855]: main.c: Failed to initialize daemon. Mar 8 08:22:20 rghquad pulseaudio[2853]: main.c: Daemon startup failed. repeating several times. I know this sounds crazy, but it is absolutely reproducible. Even if the clock is the only widget on the desktop, I get these errors, plus a dialog box asking me if certain sound devices should be removed since they weren't found. This is with KDE 4.7.4 on an up-do-date F16. The issue has been around since about 23 February, when I reported the problem on the Fedora list http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-February/414329.html though I didn't know its cause then. So it must have been caused by some update around that time. Richard

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fedora-kde48 update error
by Neal Becker 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Error: Package: 7:kdenetwork-kget-4.8.1-1.fc16.x86_64 (fedora-kde48) Requires: libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Available: libktorrent-1.1.2-1.fc16.x86_64 (fedora) libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Available: libktorrent-1.1.3-2.fc16.x86_64 (updates) libktorrent.so.3()(64bit) Installed: libktorrent-1.2-0.1rc1.fc16.x86_64 (@fedora-kde48) Not found

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KDE backlight control - backlighthelper not running?
by Maciek Borzęcki 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

I'm seeing an odd issue with KDE and screen backlight control. I'm running Thinkpad T60, with KDE 4.7 (from updates) and unfortunately the backlight control does not work. Pressing Fn+Home/Fn+End does not seem to have any effect. I normally have to tweak hotkey mask to something like 0xffffff in order to have the proper key events appear, and it does work but only in Gnome and Xfce. Before anyone suggests reinstalling bash, I've already done it (otherwise it wouldn't work in Xfce). Looking at the logs: - kded debugs: kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Loading UPower backend... kded(2495) PowerDevil::BackendLoader::loadBackend: Success! kded(2495) KDEDPowerDevil::init: Backend loaded, loading core kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::loadCore: Core loaded, initializing backend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::brightness: Screen brightness: 0 <---- why is current brightness 0? kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: current screen brightness: 0 kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can suspend kded(2495) PowerDevilUPowerBackend::init: Can hibernate kded(2495) PowerDevil::Core::onBackendReady: Backend is ready, KDE Power Management system initialized - messages - nothing about backlight helper being activated - .xsession-errors - nothing related Since it does not work with 4.7 from updates, I updated to 4.8 from kde48 repo. Unfortunately, with similar results. As a last resort I checked with KDE live spin, and amazingly, backlight control works. So something between the current version of packages and the one from live KDE spin, things got broken. Correct me if I'm wrong, but looking at the code, I see that in order to control the backlight, there's a helper program (/usr/libexec/kde4/backlighthelper) which starts through dbus activation, and exposes brigthness, setbrigthness methods. I take that once started the demon should remain running at lest for some time. Now in KDE spin, that happens to be the case, I can clearly see backlighthelper process listed in ps output (there are also logs in messages, that activation of backlighthelper was successful). However, right now, no such log is to be found, as if for some reason backlight helper does not get started. Any ideas on how to proceed with debugging this? Thanks, -- Maciek Borzecki

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ksysguard on F17 Alpha Live
by T.C. Hollingsworth 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Did ksysguard get dropped from the F17 live image on purpose? (Hard to believe since it's only 354K.) Or was it never there to begin with and I just don't remember installing it manually before? I ask mainly because I recall something else accidentally got lost due to the recent packaging split. ksysguard isn't strictly needed on the live image IMHO because the process viewer in krunner suits most people just fine. Thanks, T.C.

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tracker in KDE
by Martin (KDE) 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hallo Yesterday I upgraded from F15 to F16. This went smoothly (almost) but after the restart there were ugly processes running and tacking much of the CPU power: tracker-* AFAIK these processes are the "nepomuk" part of gnome and I don't need them. Why are the tracker processes activated in a typical KDE environment? Martin

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KDE-SIG meeting report (09/2012)
by Jaroslav Reznik 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

This is a report of the weekly KDE-SIG-Meeting with a summary of the topics that were discussed. If you want to add a comment please reply to this email or add it to the related meeting page. = Weekly KDE Summary = Week: 09/2012 Time: 2012-02-28 15:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2012-02-28 Meeting minutes: http://bit.ly/xldRuU Meeting log: http://bit.ly/AetIRK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Participants = * jreznik * rdieter * rnovacek * Kevin_Kofler * than * ltinkl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ = Agenda = * topics to discuss: ** Fedora 17 alpha post-mortem ** touch interfaces, Fedora Active * recent bugs: ** #796969, f17 kde reboot does not work, leads back to kdm [1] == Summary == Fedora 17 Alpha post-mortem * KDM shutdown/restart issue present in Fedora 17 alpha, we are waiting for more feedback after f17 spread enough * ACTION: Kevin_Kofler to take a look on systemd support as original author of CK code, jreznik to help with * KDM also supports non-root session for greeter * ACTION: to check the possibility of setting it up f17 kde reboot does not work, leads back to kdm * kudos to Michal Schmidt for figuring it out * [2] update to be tested touch interfaces, Fedora Active * first try kickstart for Fedora Active * we will need package splits for touch interfaces (-mobile subpackages, kdepim, calligra...) * we need the separate kde-settings profile set up * ACTION: to check if the plasma-mobile patches are still needed 4.8.1 * ACTION: rdieter to prepare f17-kde koji target/tag * ACTION: jreznik to start updates when tarballs hits packagers ftp * AGREED: to backport kio_tar bugfix to f15 * ACTION: Kevin_Kofler to take care about backport = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2012-03-06 = Links = [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796969 [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kde-workspace-4.8.0-12.fc17 -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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