Summary is fairly complete, the graphical ftp client "kasablanca" for KDE logs extremely noisy diagnostic/debugging info to the console even when build without "debug" USE flag enabled (or with -debug explicitly set for that matter). Application is running properly, so reports are not indicative of error info. While most users will probably launch the program via KDE's menu, since I had just emerged it, I Ctrl-D'd back to my normal user from root and typed the command name quickly in the Konsole window I was working in and was treated to some of the following: INFO: session a gui freed INFO: transfer file from session b to session a INFO: mp_src->fileName() = <censored> INFO: mp_dst->fileName() = <censored> INFO: mp_src->dirPath() = <censored> INFO: mp_dst->dirPath() = <censored> INFO: session b gui blocked INFO: session a gui blocked INFO: session b gui freed INFO: session a gui freed INFO: transfer file from session b to session a INFO: mp_src->fileName() = <censored> INFO: mp_dst->fileName() = <censored> INFO: mp_src->dirPath() = <censored> INFO: mp_dst->dirPath() = <censored> INFO: session b gui blocked INFO: session a gui blocked INFO: session b gui freed INFO: session a gui freed INFO: session b gui freed INFO: session a gui freed INFO: session b gui freed INFO: session a gui freed INFO: session b gui blocked INFO: no month entry found INFO: ignoring invalid line in dirlist INFO: session b gui freed Note that I replaced the actual directory path's and filenames with <censored>, this is not actual kasablanca output. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-debug" emerge kasablanca 2. launch kasablanca from the command line (Konsole, Xterm, whatever. X must be up) Actual Results: As per detailed explanation above, software produced extensive diagnostic info which should probably only be displayed when "debug" USE flag is set. Expected Results: Suppress any/all non-critical (fatal) diagnostic messages as a release rather than debug build typically would. Obviously, redirecting of stdout/stderr to /dev/null would be a quick workaround, but shouldn't be needed. emerge info, though it's not really relevant: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk/mirrors/gentoo http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts cdparanoia crypt cscope cups curl dga divx4linux dv dvb dvd dvdread eds emboss encode fam fbcon foomaticdb gif gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libcaca libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png qt quicktime real sdl spell sse sse2 ssl theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
This is not Gentoo specific, so the best thing to do is to report this issue directly to the author of kasablanca.
