kde April 2011

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What is virtuoso-t doing and why?
by Marko Vojinovic 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

I am seeing the following problem appearing on random occasions during regular usage of my regular updated KDE/F14/64bit system. The desktop becomes extremely slow and unresponsive, out of the blue. It lasts for about a minute or two, and then reverts to normal. If i happen to have a terminal open when it happens, I can see in top that usage of both CPUs goes to 100%. However, it's not because some process is using them, but because both CPUs are wasting cycles in "wait" state for I/O. Then if I manage to start iotop to see what is sucking all disk I/O, I see that 99.99% of I/O is being used by something like virtuoso-t +foreground +configfile /tmp/virtuoso_Lh1825.ini +wait Would someone explain what is this, why is it running on random, what triggers it, and --- most importantly --- why is it configured by default to suck all life out of my system during its (presumably normal) operation? yum info virtuoso-opensource says: Summary : A high-performance object-relational SQL database Description : Virtuoso is a scalable cross-platform server that combines SQL/RDF/XML Data Management with Web Application Server and Web Services Platform functionality. This suggests that it is some kind of database used by KDE (or something else?), so I can understand that it can be resource-hungry. However, I don't understand what is its purpose on my system? If I try to yum remove it, it wants to remove most of the OS istallation, including kdebase, so I guess it is something very required by KDE. I would be very thankful if someone explains what this is and how to make it do its work only when the system is idle enough (say, when the screensaver has been active for half an hour, or something like that), and not in the middle of my regular work. TIA, :-) Marko

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Unusably dim screen in KDE
by Ian Pilcher 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Fedora 14 (x86_64) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T510 an "nVidia Corporation GT218 [NVS 3100M]" GPU. I normally don't use my laptop's built-in display when it's at home, so I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I suspect that the recent update to KDE 4.6 was probably the trigger. I can boot my system and log in to GNOME just fine. Logging in to KDE, however, causes the brightness of my laptop display to become unusably dim. This happens whether or not the laptop is running on AC power. The screen does return to its normal brightness momentarily when I connect AC power, but it then returns to its dim state. The KDE brightness controls are still set to full brightness; I can use them to change the display from unusable dim to completely black and back. The only way I have found to restore the display to its normal brightness (until I log in to KDE) is to reboot. Anyone have any idea what might be going on? I really am completely unable to use KDE this way. :-( TIA!

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Google Chrome keeps popping up KDE Wallet dialogue
by Patrick O'Callaghan 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

When opening a new page, the latest Google Chrome (10.0.648.82 beta, F14) frequently pops up a KDE Wallet dialogue asking for a keyring password. This seems unrelated to whether the page itself wants a password. No previous version of Chrome did this, in fact I'm surprised Chrome has any interaction with KDE at all. Has anyone seen this? I'm asking here before reporting to BZ. poc

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Lovelock wallpaper is nice, but ...
by Martin Kho 06 Apr '11

06 Apr '11

Hi, When I enable desktop effects (nouveau/openGL) by default the panel gets transparent. Really nice, but this in combination with the Lovelock wallpaper makes the date e.g. very hard to read. Especially the bottom of the paper is rather dark. Anyone else have thoughts on this? Martin Kho

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kdepim-4.4.x for f15
by Rex Dieter 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Per our team meeting this week and after consulting upstream, the kde-sig decided kdepim-4.6 isn't ready yet and and to roll back to kdepim-4.4.x for fedora 15 (and ideally squeeze this in for the upcoming alpha release). https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F15/FEDORA-2011-1283 We'll continue to provide kdepim-4.6 in rawhide (targetting f16 now) and unofficial test builds in kde-unstable repo for further testing and feedback. -- Rex

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Removing Sleep and hibernate options from Leave menu
by Roderick Johnstone 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

Hi I used to be able to remove the Sleep and Hibernate options from the kde Leave menu, systemwide, by having pm-is-supported do an "exit 1". However, after the kde 4.6.1 update this no longer stops the Sleep and Hibernate items appearing. How would I remove these items systemwide now? Thanks Roderick

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KTorrent changes
by John Aldrich 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Did something change recently with KTorrent? Did the search portion get removed or is it still there and just hidden? I used to be able to search for and download torrents using KTorrent, but now it only appears to download them. Just wondering.

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kdm greeter colours
by Roderick Johnstone 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi Since the kde 4.6.1 update my kdm greeter colours are different. In the [X-*-Greeter] section of /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc I have: UseTheme=false ColorScheme=ObsidianCoast which used to give the desired colour scheme. I've tried changing ColorScheme to other values like Steel by hand and nothing seems to change. I tried using the Login Screen panel from System Settings (General Tab, appearance section), which curiously has Colour Scheme set to "<default>" despite having set ObsidianCoast in kdmrc, but setting "Obsidian Coast", there didn't help. Does changing the colour scheme work for anyone else in 4.6.1? Thanks Roderick

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Amarok lost all its music files (yet again...)
by Jeremy Sanders 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi - the recent KDE update in F14 caused Amarok to lose all the music files in its database - nice! https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265567 You can get them back by going into Configure Amarok and doing a "Full rescan". Jeremy

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kmail & 4.6.1 ate my mail... :-)
by Paul Scott 04 Apr '11

04 Apr '11

Hi After upgrading to 4.6.1 this morning I have problems with Kontact/Kmail. I have commented on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693177 (comment 9,10,12) My first problem was with the "Akondai progress bar" was stuck bouncing left to right and back. Kontact didn't start. I moved ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi, and that first the Akonadi startup problem but then I couldn't send email. The send button highlighted but then the program completely hung. It needed a kill -9 to remove it. I tried a clean kmail installation (moved all the kmail/kontact directories and files from .kde/share/apps and .kde/share/config but I still had the same problem. I had been been using akonadi-googledata-1.0.1-1.fc13.i686 from tomasj's repository so I removed that. That didn't resolve the problem. Next I looked at Akonadi (google data was removed) and I looked at the server configuration. I ran a test and there were lots of errors including MySQL server not found etc. I stopped the Akonadi server and restarted, re-ran the test and they were now all passed except "Previous Akonadi server error log not found". Suddenly a "hanging kmail send" which was in the background suddenly jumped into life and the mail was sent. I'm not reimporting my folders to the new structure and we'll see if there are any further problems. It seems to me that Akonadi is the part at fault here and that moving away ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi doesn't solve the problem completely. Cheers, Paul. -- Paul Scott paulsscott at gmail.com

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