Random system paralysis in f10
by John Pilkington
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
14 years, 3 months
User disk mounting
by Jeremy Sanders
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.
14 years, 3 months
List of kde configuration options available?
by Roderick Johnstone
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
14 years, 3 months
Why is kleopatra using pinentry-gtk2 and why doesn't it work for me?
by Andreas Petzold
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
14 years, 3 months
Re: kded4 crashes randomly
by Jan Simonson
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
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14 years, 3 months
f12 firefox displays text "broken up"
by Gene Smith
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
14 years, 3 months
Re: List Rename
by Kevin Kofler
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
14 years, 3 months
KDE-SIG weekly report (2/2010)
by Jaroslav Reznik
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.
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= 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
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= Participants =
* Jaroslav Reznik
* Kevin Kofler
* Lukas Tinkl
* Rex Dieter
* Sebastian Vahl
* Steven Parrish
* Than Ngo
* Thomas Janssen
* Mary Ellen Foster
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= 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
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= Next Meeting =
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/KDE/Meetings/2010-01-19
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= 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
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14 years, 3 months
Kontact/Akonadi is disastrous on 4.3.85
by Anne Wilson
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
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14 years, 3 months
