kde January 2010

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Random system paralysis in f10
by John Pilkington 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hi: I know f10 has gone EOL but I'm still running it until I 'finish' my parallel install of f12. The f10 system has the kde 4.3.3 packages from f10 updates, and I don't think I saw this problem before they were installed - but I also recently added a 1TB sdb, upgraded to mythtv 0.22 and began regular use of ProjectX under java (from Sun). Usually things work as expected, but there is a problem. The paralysis usually occurs when both sda and sdb are being accessed, sometimes quite intensively; things progressively stop working as I switch windows, and I can't shut down and do a normal reboot because several devices say they are busy. The only way out seems to be to switch off. On reboot everything has, so far, been ok, but dvb recordings that were in progress aren't properly closed. I've always had Konqueror open, with tabs showing the recordings folders on the two drives, when this has happened. Today it was apparently precipitated by opening the second tab. I'm wondering if I've hit a Konqueror bug, or if I may have a BIOS/sdb mismatch. Any ideas? Perhaps I should try Dolphin again. Thanks in advance, John P

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KDE no longer supprts underscore in host names
by Patrick Boutilier 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Kind of an odd decision I think. http://two-or-more.blogspot.com/2010/01/kde-team-removes-support-for-unders…

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User disk mounting
by Jeremy Sanders 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hi - Using dolphin I (or any user) can click on an unmounted system disk (an internal SATA drive, with a hard disk icon) and it is mounted without any passwords with a single click. This is Fedora 12 x86-64. I can't see why this should be enabled by default from the polkit configuration: xx:/home/jss:# pkaction --action-id org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal --verbose org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal: description: Mount a system-internal device message: Authentication is required to mount the device vendor: The DeviceKit Project vendor_url: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/ icon: drive-removable-media implicit any: no implicit inactive: no implicit active: auth_admin_keep xx:/home/jss:# pkaction --action-id org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount --verbose org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount: description: Mount a device message: Authentication is required to mount the device vendor: The DeviceKit Project vendor_url: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/DeviceKit/ icon: drive-removable-media implicit any: no implicit inactive: no implicit active: yes If it's an internal disk, I would have thought filesystem-mount-system- internal was the appropriate option, but this is set to auth_admin_keep which should pop up a dialog box asking for a password. Is there another setting I should be looking at? Thanks Jeremy.

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List of kde configuration options available?
by Roderick Johnstone 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hi I'm customising a number of kde systems, and I'd like to find out what all the valid keys and values are for all the various kde configuration files. Can someone point me to a list of valid kde configuration options please? Thanks Roderick

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Why is kleopatra using pinentry-gtk2 and why doesn't it work for me?
by Andreas Petzold 14 Jan '10

14 Jan '10

Hi, today I wanted to import a new x.509 cert into kleopatra and it didn't show the pinentry dialog. pinentry-gtk2 was launched and was using 100% CPU but it didn't do anything useful. Just for fun I removed pinentry-gtk2, but then kleopatra immediately complained that it was unable to decrypt the cert. I checked kwatchgnupg and the logs showed a little hint to the problem. gpg-agent[2117.7] DBG: <- GET_PASSPHRASE --data --repeat=0 -- X X Passphrase: Please+enter+the+passphrase+to+unprotect+the+PKCS#12+object. gpg-agent[2117]: starting a new PIN Entry gpg-agent[2117]: can't connect server: ec=4.16383 gpgsm[8945]: gpg-protect-tool: error while asking for the passphrase: No pinentry gpgsm[8945]: error running `/usr/libexec/gpg-protect-tool': exit status 2 gpgsm[8945]: total number processed: 0 gpg-agent[2117]: can't connect to the PIN entry module: End of file gpg-agent[2117]: command get_passphrase failed: No pinentry gpg-agent[2117.7] DBG: -> ERR 67108949 No pinentry <GPG Agent> gpgsm[8945.0] DBG: -> S IMPORT_RES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 gpgsm[8945.0] DBG: -> ERR 50331800 Decryption failed <GpgSM> Looks to me like /usr/libexec/gpg-protect-tool is just choosing the wrong pinentry executable. It should just call /usr/bin/pinentry which should call the correct pinentry-qt4/gtk2/whatever. With pinentry-gtk2 removed, I started pinentry and it called pinentry-qt4. So there are two problems: a) why does pinentry-gtk2 get stuck? b) why isn't pinentry-qt4 called by gpg-protect-tool? Is this working for anyone with kde 4.3.90? Cheers, Andreas

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Re: kded4 crashes randomly
by Jan Simonson 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

torsdag 31 december 2009 skrev Jan Simonson: > On my fresh F12 system installed over F10 only keeping /home from the > previous install, and after upgrading kpackagekit the other day I now > have: [jan@oden ~]$ rpm -qa|grep kpackagekit > kpackagekit-0.5.2-1.fc12.x86_64 > [jan@oden ~]$ > Today I brought the system fully up to date and thus upgraded from Kde > 4.3.3 to 4.3.4. I had to do it It from the command line as kpackagekit > didn't show any updates available even after a refresh. Furthermore > pressing "refresh" in kpackagekit now results in a crash and also brings > down kded4. Kded4 has to be manually restarted to bring back the > functionality on the desktop. > > This is with only "stable" updates and NO "testing" installed. Today after updating PackageKit to 0.5.6-1.fc12 kpackagekit started to function again with relevant updates displayed and no chrashes when pressing "refresh". Seems that the problem was not in kpackagekit but rather in PackageKit. Jan -- Jan Simonson

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f12 firefox displays text "broken up"
by Gene Smith 13 Jan '10

13 Jan '10

I have recently noticed that if I have firefox partially covered by another window and then scroll the display in ff w/o focusing on it that the text lines sometimes gets broken up in horizontal strips when it comes out from under the window over top. I have seen this with KDE and free ATI driver on one system and on a gnome system with free nvidia ion driver. It seems worst on gnome/nvidia system. Both use the same monitor. When the ff window is totally exposed the text is fine. Didn't see anything about this in a quick look at rh bugzilla. Also, never saw this with f11. -gene

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Re: List Rename
by Kevin Kofler 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

Hi, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > Just a reminder that this list was renamed as part of the mailing list > migration. its now kde at lists.fedoraproject.org thanks But messages sent to the old address still go through and they reach the Gmane gateway whereas messages sent to the new address don't. :-( Kevin Kofler

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KDE-SIG weekly report (2/2010)
by Jaroslav Reznik 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

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: 2/2010 Time: 2010-01-12 14:00 UTC Meeting page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-01-12 Meeting minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora- meeting/2010-01-12/kde-sig.2010-01-12-14.02.html Meeting log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-01-12/kde- sig.2010-01-12-14.02.log.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Participants = * Jaroslav Reznik * Kevin Kofler * Lukas Tinkl * Rex Dieter * Sebastian Vahl * Steven Parrish * Than Ngo * Thomas Janssen * Mary Ellen Foster ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Agenda = * kde-l10n srpm split * plasma-netbook tracker * re-test enabling qt/webkit jit * recent bugs: o #554713: Only "Internal audio analog stereo" present after login [1] = Summary = kde-l10n srpm split * Than proposed %subject% - split current one big srpm to many packages * pros/cons o pros are more flexible and smaller updates, build of current srpm is time consuming in case of buggy kde-l10n package o cons - koji/bodhi overhead/more packages, has to be scripted * Rex Dieter is going to revive/work on his script/template * FKDESCo agreed on this conditionally o automation script is ready and usable plasma-netbook * jreznik, svahl and mefoster are willing to lead Plasma Netbook effort * step #1 - create a separate comps group for kde-netbook, then probably spin * intelligent cherry picking of packages to be on (and needs split/reorganization) o kdeplasma-addons needed, problem due to kdeedu-marble * tracker [2] qtwebkit JIT [3] * SELinux issue, currently off o reported for both 4.5 & 4.6 o i386 only (JIT is not enabled for x86_64) o we need retesting, poke upstream recent bugs Only "Internal audio analog stereo" present after login * more info needed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Next Meeting = http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-01-19 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- = Links = [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554713 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=549746 [3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=549994 = Comment = Sorry for missing last meeting summary, my fault ;-) Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik(a)redhat.com> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 731 455 332 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/

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Kontact/Akonadi is disastrous on 4.3.85
by Anne Wilson 12 Jan '10

12 Jan '10

First kontact would not start at all. This seems to be due to the fact that it was seeking a non-existent folder, /home/anne/.local/share/Local, IIRC. Pointing this to my local mail directory allowed Kontact to start, but I've since been told that that is a bad idea - and I haven't been told what I should do about it. Then I discovered that my addressbook was empty. I replaced the file from a backup, restarted everything, but still couldn't see any addresses. Exploring the Akonadi setup I confirmed that it was pointing to the correct file. In the end I added a new Resource, pointing it to the same file. All my addresses were now visible and I thought I had won. Not so. Today I needed to add a phone number. Edit opened a blank form - none of the existing details showing. You could type into a field, but saving it made no difference. The new item didn't show. Now, some hours later, Edit is working and I can add the phone number. During that time I have kept getting spells of seeing Kontact use more than 50% CPU, forcing the total to 99-100%, so that I had to shut it down. Several times. I can only assume that it's Akonadi trying to organise the data, but it has simply made it unusable. Unless these issues can be resolved there are going to be some major screams. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

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