GUI applications writing garbage to stdout/stderr

Jaroslav Reznik jreznik at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 12:02:38 UTC 2015


----- Original Message -----
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22:57AM +0100, Marcel Oliver wrote:
> When I run okular I see:
> 
> Connecting to deprecated signal
> QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> kbuildsycoca4 running...
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-excel.addin.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slideshow.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.presentation.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-excel.template.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.template.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12"
> okular(16844) KMimeTypeRepository::parents: "/usr/share/mime/subclasses"
> refers to unknown mimetype
> "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint.slide.macroEnabled.12"
> QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: Nie ma
> takiego pliku ani katalogu
> QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths:
> /home/zbyszek/.kde/share/config/activitymanager-pluginsrc
> 
> This is an issue. It either ends up on the terminal or in the logs. When
> looking through logs to diagnose a problem this kind of garbage is very
> annoying. Especially repeating the same message over and over should be
> fixed.

And this KMimeTypeRepository issue looks like a bug as it happens almost
everywhere even debugging is disabled (in kdebugdialog for example).
Kdebugdialog is also answer for the original question (for KDE).

Jaroslav


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