kde November 2011

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f14 x86_64 konqueror 'the process for the file protocol died unexpectedly'
by John Pilkington 18 Nov '11

18 Nov '11

Yesterday, after a week away, I updated this system. It had been up-to-date before I went away. New kernel, and I thought some kde stuff. Since then several attempts to refresh konq file-management tabs have given a blank window, sometimes with this message in the border. Everything works as usual after a konq restart, until this happens again. Two of the tabs were showing large folders, 100 GB (ext3) and 500 GB (ext4), both nearly full with video files. I've since deleted quite a few to provide more headroom. Anyone else affected? I've never seen it before. John P

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Preupgrade results in inability to start x
by Claude Jones 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

I'm not sure where to go with this. I had one machine preupgrade quite nicely. This one is failing to start X. I can get to a prompt and I've tried running yum update, which brought in a few new packages, but I still can't get a desktop. I'm using the nouveau driver and looking through the Xorg.0.log file doesn't yield much. The last video reference I can spot in the log says: AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch Nouveau(0): NVLeaveVT is called Googling on that second line brought up some posts about switching to the VESA driver, but, I don't have an xorg.conf file, and I can't generate one because system-config-display is not present on this system... Can any one suggest something? -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA

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KMail issue?
by Martin Kho 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi, Didn't I say that I've no issues with KMail? May be I've one. :-) When I click a mailto link in Konqueror or Kopete the New Message (KMail) window opens, but the e-mail address is not 'copied' into the To: field. Clicking a mailto link in Firefox fails with the following message in .xsession-errors: ** (firefox:1707): WARNING **: Could not launch default application for URI: Failed to execute child process "kmailservice" (No such file or directory). This happens on Fedora 16/17. Seen this too? Is it a KMail bug? Thanks, Martin Kho

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Unable to change kde email client
by Roderick Johnstone 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi Fedora 16: kde 4.7.3 In system-settings / Default applications I'm setting "Email client" to /usr/bin/thunderbird after checking the "Use a different email client" button. Opening a mailto: link in dolphin or firefox or xdg-open or kde-open starts kmail2 and gives the following message on the terminal: QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. Can anyone else confirm the inability to change the default email client this way please. Any ideas how to work around this? Thanks Roderick

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Bug in Kwin + nVidia, is it possible to backport the fix?
by Christian González 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

There are a bug in Kwin when using nVidia + TwinView + 2 monitors with differents resolutions, see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286146 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285967 Thomas Lübking has commited a fix into branch 'master' (see http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/c64f22c20ba8947ff1259ad2b3d14037f671f7…), but AFAIK it's not backported to other branches. Is is possible to apply it to KDE 4.7.3 in Fedora? It's really annoying to have Kwin forgetting windows sizes and opening it semi-maximized all the time. Thanks in advance. -- Christian González G. http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/chgonzalez

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An even more trivial question on Firefox
by Timothy Murphy 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

In going over to Fedora-16 I seem to have lost my Live Bookmarks toolbar, where I used to have sites like the BBC with RSS feeds under the title bar at the top of the screen. I can see them if I go to View=>Sidebar=>Bookmarks, so they are there. Many thanks for any illumination ... -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Tiny help please with KMail
by Timothy Murphy 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Now I have KMail(2) running under Fedora-16/KDE, I have one last probably trivial question. When I list the items in a mail folder, I just get the Subject and the Date. I no longer get the From info, as I used to; and I don't see any mention of this in Settings=>Configure KMail . Can some kind soul help me, per favore. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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KAddressBook problem
by Anne Wilson 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

On a fresh F14 + updates system, KAddressBook shows all my sub- folders under ~/.local/share/contacts/whatever. but none of the vcf cards in the parent folder, labelled Personal Contacts. There's nothing obviously wrong with the folder or the entries, but I can't see them. Any ideas? Anne

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Downgrading kmail
by Anne Wilson 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

I've given up hope of getting KMail2 working with Fedora 15. Do I have to remove the whole of kdepim? I'd just downgrade KMail if that's possible. Anne

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Skype and Google-Talkplugin don't start, may be audio/video config problem
by Mario Storti 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Hi all, I have Fedora 16, and my problem is that I can't run Skype neither Google-Talk Plugin for videoconferences. Skype simply crashes > [mstorti@galileo ~]$ gdb skype > GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora (7.3.50.20110722-9.fc16) > Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later > <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show > copying" > and "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>... > Reading symbols from /usr/bin/skype...(no debugging symbols > found)...done. > Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install > skype-2.2.0.35-fc10.i586 > (gdb) r > Starting program: /usr/bin/skype > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". > [New Thread 0x81a8ab40 (LWP 6904)] > [New Thread 0x819e4b40 (LWP 6905)] > [New Thread 0x81963b40 (LWP 6906)] > [New Thread 0x816afb40 (LWP 6907)] > [New Thread 0x814ffb40 (LWP 6908)] > [New Thread 0x8147eb40 (LWP 6909)] > [New Thread 0x813fdb40 (LWP 6910)] > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > [Switching to Thread 0x816afb40 (LWP 6907)] > 0x4fab511e in pthread_getschedparam () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 And Google-Talk also doesn't start, it offers me to install the plugin for chat and video, but in fact I have it installed and I think that it is the latest version. Name : google-talkplugin Version : 2.1.6.0 The most amazing thing is that I can run OK both Skype and Google-Talkplugin UNDER OTHER USER IN THE SAME MACHINE (my user is `mstorti', and I created another `mstorti2' just to try things). Right now my workaround is to switch to user `mstorti2' each time I have a videoconf, but it is getting too annoying!! :-( Also I can say that I used Skype/Google-Talkplugin without problems before, I think that something was messed up with some upgrade almost 6 months ago (perhaps when upgrading to Fedora 15 or near). I think it is a problem of configuration of either the camera of the audio, but * I have audio OK, for instance in Amarok or Firefox/Youtube * I can record audio in Audacity * I test my camera in System Settings -> Multimedia -> Phonon -> Video Recording and it seems OK. The only conflict that I note is that when I start a video on YouTube I can't hear at the sometime music from Amarok for instance. (It's probably useless anyway, but I report this because normally I could to that before all this problem started). I am sometimes tempted to do a fresh install of Fedora from scratch, but I'm somewhat lazy because I have a lot of packages locally installed (I'm using this system since 2007) and I'm skeptic that it will help. Any ideas?? TIA, Mario -- ------------------------- Mario Alberto Storti [cel. +54-342-5122135] CIMEC (INTEC/CONICET-UNL) Predio CONICET-Santa Fe Colect. Ruta Nac. 168 Km 472, Paraje El Pozo 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina Tel: +54-342-4511594 (ext 1015), Tel/Fax: +54-342-4511169 Home: +54-342-4550193, e-mail: mario.storti at gmail.com http://www.cimec.org.ar/mstorti -------------------------

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