January 2012 - kde - Fedora mailing-lists

nntp (aka, usenet) client in kde?
by Gene Smith 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

I currently use t-bird with an nntp account pointing to gmane to read this list and sereral others. Does kde have an nntp client program of any sort? I don't see it as a possible new account type in kmail. Also, search with kpackagekit yields nothing with "usenet" or "nntp" that is kde specific. -gene

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Kate not installed by default on Fedora 16
by Sonic 15 Jun '12

15 Jun '12

Hi.. I just found out that Kate was not installed by default on Fedora 16 even though I had selected 'KDE Software Development' during installation. KDevelop is installed, but not Kate. Was this a concious decision or a mistake? regards, Syam

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tracker in KDE
by Martin (KDE) 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Hallo Yesterday I upgraded from F15 to F16. This went smoothly (almost) but after the restart there were ugly processes running and tacking much of the CPU power: tracker-* AFAIK these processes are the "nepomuk" part of gnome and I don't need them. Why are the tracker processes activated in a typical KDE environment? Martin

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KMail2
by Timothy Murphy 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Is anybody using KMail2, or has everyone given up on it? I've asked several questions about it, eg I cannot create top-level folders, there are curious sub-folders created when migrating from KMail, the Tools=>Find Messages facility does not seem to work. I just wondered if the reason I haven't had any responses is that everyone has gone back to the previous version of KMail? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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f16/kde48 repo
by Rex Dieter 03 Feb '12

03 Feb '12

With kde-4.8.0 to be officially released any minute/day now, and to forestall the deluge of questions like * How do I get kde-4.8.x for f16 * When will kde-4.8.x be released for f16 and help get things tested, I threw together a (hopefully temporary) backports repo, http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/rdieter/kde48/ similar to what we did with f15/kde47 It contains just the minimal builds needed to get up and running with kde-4.8.0 (as opposed to kde-unstable repo that has other stuff like calligra). Hopefully, this will lower the bar and make it easier to use, and get more folks using and testing it. Oh, and to answer question 2 above, well just have to wait and see how testing goes. Please do give feedback. Enjoy. -- rex

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Downgrading KDEPIM
by John Aldrich 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Can I add the F15 repos and downgrade KMail? I REALLY don't like KMail 2. It's slower than molasses at the North Pole in January and it's a huge resource hog to boot. I absolutely HATE the new version and if I can't go back to a version that works, I'll have to find a new email client! :(

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Reboot and kmail
by Jan Simonson 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hello, A year ago I tried to install Fedora 14 on a machine with a Gigabyte GA-EP45- DS4P motherboard using the hardware RAID0. It turned out to be impossible as the raid volume was not recognised by the installer, so I used software raid instead and everything worked very well until upgrading to F16 a month ago. After the upgrade only one of the disks belonging to my /home raid volume was used, but changing disk after each reboot. Not a good situation! As I had a fresh backup I wiped my disks and created a RAID0 disk in hardware once again. This time it was recognised by the F16 installer and the install went smoothly. But there is one remaining problem: Each time I try to reboot or shutdown the system hangs with the following messages on screen: Sending SIGKILL to remaining processes... Unmounting file systems. Unmounted /sys/fs/fuse/connections. Unmounted /var/lib/nfs/rpc-pipefs. Unmounted /sys/kernel/security. Unmounted /sys/kernel/debug. Unmounted /dev/hugepages. Unmounted /dev/mqueue. Unmounted /sys/kernel/config. and then it hangs forever and I have to kill with the powerswitch. On a laptop, also with a fresh F16, there is no such problem. Both installs are x86_64. Does anybody know if this has something to do with the RAID? Where shall I start looking for the problem? I also switched to KMail2 at the same time. Having heared of many problems I had archived all my mail (many thousand mails) in KMail1 beforehand and then made a new install and configuration in KMail2. Then I imported the mails into the newly created folders and have now used KMail2 daily with only minor problems. It's rather slow when downloading many messages from a POP3 server and there are some chrashes when deleting a html-message directly after loading external pictures. But it's easy to work around and 4.8 might solve it. So if you have many problems with KMail2 and have migrated, it might be worth it to consider making a fresh install. Regards Jan -- Jan Simonson

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Digital clock widget
by Emmett Culley 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Since upgrading to Fedora 16 I notice that the popup calendar in the digital clock widget has event information, including a new panel to the right with an event list. That would be nice, except it cannot be turned off. Plus I have no idea where the "event" are defined, or why some of the dates in the calendar have a box around them. Unchecking "Display Events" in the configuration dialog has no effect. My system is up to date at 4.7.4-1 Emmett

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Re:Auto Bug reporting tool in KDE-4.7
by adi11bgsg＠gmail.com 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hello KDE Team, I am using Fedora 16(x86_64) version,with the Default Desktop being "KDE PLasma Workspace 4.7". Everything is functional and running smoothly,except such messages:- *google-chrome-stable Process /opt/google/chrome/chrome was killed by signal 11(SIGSEGV) 2012-01-29 22:25 *The installed* google-chrome *is of version * 16.0.912.77 *This type of message also occurs while I run* "vlc" mediaplayer *which is of version *1.1.13* The Luggage The message box pops up in "Automatic Bug Reporting Tool" as Header of the message box. Please,Help me regarding this. From -Kaushik Guha

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Missing next boot option
by Łukasz Redynk 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi I'm using up-to-date Fedora 16 x86_64 KDE spin (from fresh install, not upgrade) and recently I've discover, that 'boot to other os' option is missing. I've got proper configured 'grub2' in 'System Settings -> Login Screen', also I've added 'GDUB_DEFAULT=saved' to /etc/default/grub, but there's no 'arrow' near 'reboot button'. Anybody tried to solve that issue? -- Pozdrawiam Łukasz Redynk, CI TASK

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Plasma Desktop crashes in KDE 4.7.4
by Dave Ulrick 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi, Since upgrading from FC14 to FC16, I've had several Plasma Desktop crashes that occurred when I was switching between desktops. The crash traceback appears to match the one associated with this KDE bug ticket: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286353 A fix has been committed for this bug. Any word on when this fix will find its way into the FC16 fedora-updates repository? Thanks, Dave -- Dave Ulrick Email: d-ulrick(a)comcast.net

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Re: Automatic bug reporting in KDE-4.7
by adi11bgsg＠gmail.com 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

I am using Fedora 16(x86_64) version,with the Default Desktop being "KDE PLasma Workspace 4.7". Everything is functional and running smoothly,except such messages: google-chrome-stable Process /opt/google/chrome/chrome was killed by signal 11(SIGSEGV) 2012-01-29 22:25 is popping up in "Automatic Bug Reporting Tool". Please,Help me regarding this. From -Kaushik Guha

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KMail problems (continued)
by Timothy Murphy 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

KMail on my Fedora-16 laptop still has several problems, when used with email on my CentOS-6.2 server. 1. The Tools=>Find Messages facility seems to be failing completely. (As far as I can see it has been getting worse, not better.) I cannot get any response, eg when searching for "the" in 2000 messages ... Is there some trick I'm overlooking? Or is some plugin or additional program required? 2. It seems to be impossible to create a new top-level folder, under a specific account. 3. The whole folder arrangement seems to have got screwed up after moving from KMail to KMail2. Eg the Search folder seems to have a whole collection of subfolders. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Konqueror sorting by file type: not as it was.
by John Pilkington 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Fedora 15 x86_64, konqueror 4.6.5 I have a 500Gb folder of video files and snapshots, foo.mpg and foo.mpg.png. During processing I rename to foo.mpg.old and create a new foo.mpg file; if the process seems to have worked I usually then delete foo.mpg.old Until recently 'konqueror sort by file type' always put the file to be deleted at the top of the window. Now it may be at the top, the middle or the bottom. This is only mildly inconvenient, but it _is_ a change and I suppose it could have other consequences. I haven't seen it reported elsewhere. John P

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ark 4.8.0
by Peter G. 25 Jan '12

25 Jan '12

Nice work on 4.8.0 :-) (ark is missing on i686, so kdeutils for i686 won't install).

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Fedora KDE Live Media installer still not available in non-english language (F15 version)
by Christian González 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I've reported this problem 2 years ago: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=541055 The problem is still present in F15 KDE Spin. ¿Could we please find some kind of solution? Again, I'm willing to help in any way, but I think that this problem must be priorized by the KDE SIG, especially since Anaconda devs have stated that they will not fix the problem (see comment 6). Kevin Kofler suggested to create a kdialog wrapper. Is it possible? I think even I can help with that part of the solution. Best regards, -- Christian González G. http://chgonzalez.blogspot.com http://twitter.com/chgonzalez

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problems adding new printer
by Neal Becker 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

I was so happy to see, maybe 1 year back, that fedora/kde had finally progressed to the point that when I tried to add my home printer it was autodetected, and I didn't have to specify the make, model, etc. Not any more. Seems pretty broken now. I seem to have 3 ways to try to add a printer. I can use system settings (kde). This, unlike the other ways, actually works. But it doesn't detect my printer, and I do need to select make/model etc. The other two ways I find by opening application launcher and search for 'print' which shows 2 items, 1 called 'printer configuration' and 1 called 'printing'. Neither of them work at all. The first gives me 'cups-authorization-cancelled' when I try to add a new printer, without having ever asked for any authorization. (This seems to be just another way to get to the kde printer config dialog, but a broken one). The other seems like a gnome version. IIRC this one also fails but later in the process.

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okular always starts fully maximized
by Armelius Cameron 24 Jan '12

24 Jan '12

Hello, For some reason whenever I start okular it always start fully maximized, i.e. it doesn't remember its last state of windows size(e.g. resized, not maximized). It doesn't matter how I open it, it cant be from command-line or from clicking PDF file. Is anyone else seeing this ? Okular 0.13.3, KDE 4.7.4, fully updated F16. Thanks. AC

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[f16] Screen goes blank [due to loss of video?]
by Gene Smith 22 Jan '12

22 Jan '12

Since moving to f16 (from f14) sometimes my screen goes blanks for no apparent reason. KDE power setting and screen saver settings seem OK. Also, it doesn't happen on every KDE login but when it does its like the computer has turned off and there is no video signal and the monitor goes to sleep until I move the mouse or press a key. Then monitor might only stays on a few seconds until it goes off again. Sometimes logging off and back on fixes it. Today it seems to be OK. Not sure if this is h/w or s/w caused. -gene

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kslideshow screensaver transitions slow in f16
by Gene Smith 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

I recently upgraded from f14 to f16. Some of the kslideshow transitions are now painfully slow, especially ones where one pictures fades into another. These were fine on f14. Any idea what would cause this? I removed the configuration file ~/.kde/share/config/kslideshow.kssrc and re-entered my configuration (after logout/in) and it didnt' help. Otherwise, graphically, the system seems fine. (Seems like I remember seeing this same problem many KDE versions back it it eventually went away.) -gene

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KMail search facility
by Timothy Murphy 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

The KMail Tools=>Find Messages seems to have stopped working completely, at least for me. Could this possibly be related to the message -------------------------- Fetch Job Error - Plasma Desktop Shell Unknown error. Unable to fetch item from backend. -------------------------- which I get when re-booting my laptop? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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Fedora clamav package on CentOS 6
by Anne Wilson 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Every time CentOS has an update for ClamAV I have problems with it. It usually takes me 3-4 days to sort it out - not desirable - but this time (on CentOS 6) I don't seem to be able to get it right. It's been almost two weeks now without a valid update. Here are some of the symptoms: Error messages such as No updates detected in the log for the freshclam daemon (the ClamAV update process). If the freshclam daemon is not running, you may need to restart it. LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! *** LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. *** LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** [root@borg2 ~]# freshclam ERROR: Can't open /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log in append mode (check permissions!). ERROR: Problem with internal logger (UpdateLogFile = /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log). /etc/cron.daily/freshclam: ERROR: Can't create temporary directory /var/lib/clamav/clamav-8759a1379e6d384daf0b0501402a5769 ERROR: Can't create temporary directory /var/lib/clamav/clamav-7547ad2e1fa170c8b059a8dea6dd9ce9 [root@borg2 ~]# rpm -qi clamav Name : clamav Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.97.3 Vendor: Fedora Project cat clamd.log Sun Jan 8 14:52:16 2012 -> SelfCheck: Database status OK. Sun Jan 8 15:01:33 2012 -> ERROR: Can't unlink the pid file /var/run/clamav/clamd.pid Sun Jan 8 15:01:33 2012 -> --- Stopped at Sun Jan 8 15:01:33 2012 Sun Jan 8 15:01:33 2012 -> ERROR: Can't unlink the socket file /var/run/clamav/clamd.sock I found that "LogFileUnlock yes" was commented out in clamd.conf and corrected that, but that doesn't seem to address these two issues. ls -ld /var/lib/clamav drwxr-xr-x 2 clam clam 4096 Jan 10 09:43 /var/lib/clamav SELinux is disabled. I also got the message (which I've seen in earlier updated versions) about duplicate databases - i.e. /var/lib/clamav contained pairs of files, daily.cld and daily.cvd, main.cld and main.cvd. I checked datestampes and renamed the older one of the pair. That error message hasn't surfaced since then. The last version ran as clamav and all the relevant files were owned clamav:clamav. According to clamd.conf it is now running as clam, and so I changed the ownership of all necessary (so far as I know) files and directories to clam:clam. Any ideas? I'm getting pretty desperate now. Anne -- Need KDE help? Try http://userbase.kde.org or Http://forum.kde.org

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Multiple Monitors Still Broken
by Armelius Cameron 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hello, I have a laptop with with nvidia graphic card. I am using the built-in nouveau driver. First I just started the laptop by itself, set up all the panels and widgets as I want it. I have one "primary" panel by default that has the taskbar & system tray. Then I connect an external monitor via VGA. KDE recognized it, I set it up as multi-head. The external monitor is on the right side of the primary (the laptop screen). I add one panel with some icons only on the external monitor, while my "primary" panel (that has the taskbar and system tray) still on the laptop screen. All is well. Now one would expect that if one unplug the external monitor then whatever got set up on the laptop screen remains. One would be sorely disappointed. Once I unplug the VGA: 1. The "primary" panel, that default KDE panel that one always started with, that has taskbar & system tray is gone. I don't know where, I can't find it. 2. The window of any application (konsole, xterm, etc) that I start is now located off screen somewhere. I can't move it, I can't do anything. I can see that the application was started (it shows in the list of apps with ALT + TAB), but they are off screen somewhere. So even if I want to try to fix things with system-settings, I can't access system settings window. The only way to restore this is to connect the VGA again. So now the whole settings is broken if I don't have an external monitor connected. Has anyone experienced this ? I vaguely remember something like this with F15 when I tried to set up my desktop with multi-head. It's rather disappointing that it's still broken (I eventually gave up and use proprietary nvidia driver there with my F15). Is this video driver related or KDE related ? Thanks. AC

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Little slip in kde-runtime update
by Martin Kho 15 Jan '12

15 Jan '12

Hi, ---> Package kde-runtime.x86_64 0:4.7.97-11.fc17 will be obsoleting --> Processing Dependency: kde-runtime-flags = 4.7.97-11.fc17 for package: kde- runtime-4.7.97-11.fc17.x86_64 ---> Package kde-runtime-libs.x86_64 0:4.7.97-11.fc17 will be obsoleting ---> Package kdebase-runtime.x86_64 0:4.7.97-1.fc17 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: kdebase-runtime = 4.7.97-1.fc17 for package: kdebase-runtime-flags-4.7.97-1.fc17.noarch ---> Package kdebase-runtime-libs.x86_64 0:4.7.97-1.fc17 will be obsoleted --> Running transaction check ---> Package kde-runtime-flags.noarch 0:4.7.97-11.fc17 will be installed ---> Package kdebase-runtime.x86_64 0:4.7.97-1.fc17 will be obsoleted --> Processing Dependency: kdebase-runtime = 4.7.97-1.fc17 for package: kdebase-runtime-flags-4.7.97-1.fc17.noarch --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: kdebase-runtime-flags-4.7.97-1.fc17.noarch (@rawhide) Requires: kdebase-runtime = 4.7.97-1.fc17 Removing: kdebase-runtime-4.7.97-1.fc17.x86_64 (@rawhide) kdebase-runtime = 4.7.97-1.fc17 Obsoleted By: kde-runtime-4.7.97-11.fc17.x86_64 (rawhide) kdebase-runtime = 4.7.97-11.fc17 Martin Kho

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Re: Fedora 16 KDE spin questions
by T.C. Hollingsworth 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

Hi Steve! Please make sure to use Reply All when replying to messages so the list gets a copy. That way other people who have suggestions won't repeat things already said privately, and other people experiencing similar issues will be able to find an answer in the archives. Thanks! On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Steve Greene <wildernessrogue(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello TC, > > Thank you so much for your responses! I have pasted the Konsole output > to your su -c 'smartctl -A /dev/sda/' command at the end of this short > email. Regarding the font file, I am attempting to delete it from the > Dophin file manager, as it won't even open in the font manager > (computer tells me the font file does not exist). Regarding the > rpmfusion update with the problem, I figured that one out on my own > (I'm so proud, ha ha) ... In the Konsole, I instructed yum to update, > it found the file, and I requested the update with yum. Amazingly, yum > carried out successfully the update, and now that rpmfusion file is no > longer in my update folder. > > Okay, here is the feedback from the Konsole regarding your requested input: > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE > UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 080 006 Pre-fail > Always - 129286921 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 095 094 000 Pre-fail > Always - 0 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age > Always - 2428 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail > Always - 0 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 060 030 Pre-fail > Always - 163795690 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age > Always - 5868 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail > Always - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 098 098 020 Old_age > Always - 2360 > 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age > Always - 1086 > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 048 048 000 Old_age > Always - 52 > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 055 042 045 Old_age > Always In_the_past 45 (0 21 51 20 0) > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age > Always - 1465 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 008 008 000 Old_age > Always - 184575 > 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 045 058 000 Old_age > Always - 45 (0 10 0 0 0) > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 064 048 000 Old_age > Always - 118173405 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 001 001 000 Old_age > Always - 4294967295 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 001 001 000 Old_age > Offline - 4294967295 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age > Always - 0 > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age > Offline - 0 > 202 Data_Address_Mark_Errs 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age > Always - 0 This indicates that you have zero bad sectors. I have no idea why Disk Utility thought you did; perhaps it's a bug. It does indicate the temperature of your drive did go above the recommended safe limit at some point in the past. If you have a desktop machine, you should make sure that all fans are working and are properly ventilated and that the inside of your computer isn't excessively dusty. If it's a laptop, take care to not block any vents when using your computer. However, you shouldn't be concerned about it unless it happens frequently, and it should not cause the other problems you describe. HTH, T.C.

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