Bugzilla Bug 163732

Since the version bump, kooldock loads only erratically. It is always present
as a process but the UI does not show up. Dinstinction:

1. Loading on KDE startup (default): maybe once out of 20 times, the UI will
show. The rest of the time, never.

2. Manually starting it: first, kill it. Then start again from a shell. Result:
maybe once out of 5 times, the UI will show.

I cannot find a pattern here - the number of tries I need to get it working
seem to vary. I also don't know if and to which location kooldock writes a log.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge and wait if it loads with KDE next time, ps auxwww and grep for it
2. from a user shell, kill the process
3. load it again (no parameters)

Actual Results:  
see above

Expected Results:  
Show the dock UI

Configuration is a KDE 3.5.5, built from startkde package. No panel or dock
replacements other than kooldock. Seems not to be related to other software
running (cannot find pattern).

Running on free Radeon driver (M9, Radeon Mobility 9000), DRI enabled.

I'm using kooldock only occasionally, but it always shows up properly...

Please paste your emerge --info output.

ps. have you tried to clean kooldock configuration and begin new session?

As for the configuration: I tried deleting the kooldockrc to feign a first
start. This produced something: at first, the dock would not show up, but when
I switched the desktop, it suddenly did. When I switch back, it then works on
the original desktop as well. I can reproduce this.

I also get this on the console when I start it manually:

ralph@localhost ~/.kde3.5/share/config $ X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window
parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x1c00ab2

As well as this, when I change a setting in the menu:

QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image


Ok. Here's what emerge --info says:

Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4,
2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1300MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:20:01 +0000
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf
/etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ "
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress
--force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X aac acpi alsa alsa_cards_ali5451 alsa_cards_als4000
alsa_cards_atiixp alsa_cards_atiixp-modem alsa_cards_bt87x alsa_cards_ca0106
alsa_cards_cmipci alsa_cards_emu10k1x alsa_cards_ens1370 alsa_cards_ens1371
alsa_cards_es1938 alsa_cards_es1968 alsa_cards_fm801 alsa_cards_hda-intel
alsa_cards_intel8x0 alsa_cards_intel8x0m alsa_cards_maestro3 alsa_cards_trident
alsa_cards_usb-audio alsa_cards_via82xx alsa_cards_via82xx-modem
alsa_cards_ymfpci alsa_pcm_plugins_adpcm alsa_pcm_plugins_alaw
alsa_pcm_plugins_asym alsa_pcm_plugins_copy alsa_pcm_plugins_dmix
alsa_pcm_plugins_dshare alsa_pcm_plugins_dsnoop alsa_pcm_plugins_empty
alsa_pcm_plugins_extplug alsa_pcm_plugins_file alsa_pcm_plugins_hooks
alsa_pcm_plugins_iec958 alsa_pcm_plugins_ioplug alsa_pcm_plugins_ladspa
alsa_pcm_plugins_lfloat alsa_pcm_plugins_linear alsa_pcm_plugins_meter
alsa_pcm_plugins_mulaw alsa_pcm_plugins_multi alsa_pcm_plugins_null
alsa_pcm_plugins_plug alsa_pcm_plugins_rate alsa_pcm_plugins_route
alsa_pcm_plugins_share alsa_pcm_plugins_shm alsa_pcm_plugins_softvol arts asf
berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri dvd elibc_glibc
exif fortran gdbm gif gpm iconv imap input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse
ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux lcd_devices_bayrad
lcd_devices_cfontz lcd_devices_cfontz633 lcd_devices_glk lcd_devices_hd44780
lcd_devices_lb216 lcd_devices_lcdm001 lcd_devices_mtxorb lcd_devices_ncurses
lcd_devices_text libg++ linguas_de linguas_en mime mp3 ncurses nls nptl
nptlonly opengl pam pcmcia pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 radeon
readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts
udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_r200 video_cards_radeon wifi win32codecs
wma xorg xvid zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Hmm... I found that kooldock sometimes loads after 5-10 seconds (quite a long
time), but this is the only thing I see here...

Anyway - I've just commited kooldock's version bump into CVS. Plz try version
0.4.4 and tell us, is your problem still there.

Cheers,
Przemek

I have emerged 0.4.4 and after the first 2 tries the problem seems to be gone.
I hope it stays that way. ;) Whatever you did, good work!

As for 0.4.3, in the end my workaround was to switch to another desktop after
loading KDE and and switch right back again - then the UI would show (otherwise
it would not).

Good to hear :)

I deleted kooldock-0.4.3 from portage tree.

Cheers,
Przemek

PS. You don't need to CC yourself, if you are a bug reporter.