After installing Krita-1.5.1 it gives the following error: $ krita koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: kritapart.desktop not found. koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Run 'kde-config --path services' to see which directories were searched, assuming kde startup had the same environment as your current shell. koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Check your installation (did you install KOffice in a different prefix than KDE, without adding the prefix to /etc/kderc ?) Output of "kde-config --path services": $ kde-config --path services /home/william/.kde3.5/share/services/:/usr/share/services/:/usr/kde/3.5/share/services/ Output of "echo $KDEDIRS": $ echo $KDEDIRS /usr This all occurs on a freshly installed Gentoo 2006 ~x86 machine and is reproducable every time. Re-emerging doesn't fix the problem. "emerge --info" output: # emerge --info Portage 2.1_rc2-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo " LINGUAS="nl" MAKEOPTS="" 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.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt cups dri dvd eds emboss encode esd foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse kernel_linux linguas_nl userland_GNU video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Can you check if /usr/share/services is by chance 0700 (no access for users)?
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you check if /usr/share/services is by chance 0700 (no access for users)? > Sorry, forgot to mention that I did find that comment on the forums because I also had this kind of problem with Kaffeine. And I changed the access rights to that folder to the following. My apologies. partial output "ls -l /usr/share": drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 25 22:13 services output "ls -l /usr/share/services": $ ls -l /usr/share/services total 1452 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2503 May 25 04:57 amarok_generic-mediadevice.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2968 May 25 04:57 amarok_void-engine_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2877 May 25 04:57 amarok_xine-engine.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1020 May 25 19:45 clipartthumbnail.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 353 May 25 02:13 codeine_part.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1092 May 25 00:48 digikamalbums.protocol -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1066 May 25 00:48 digikamdates.protocol -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1302 May 25 00:48 digikamimageplugin_core.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1038 May 25 00:48 digikamsearch.protocol -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1041 May 25 00:48 digikamtags.protocol -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1131 May 25 00:48 digikamthumbnail.protocol -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1531 May 25 19:45 generic_filter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2245 May 25 02:36 kaffeine_part.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168 May 25 02:36 kaffeinemp3lame.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 153 May 25 02:36 kaffeineoggvorbis.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3172 May 25 22:13 karbon_ai_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2698 May 25 22:13 karbon_eps_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2663 May 25 22:13 karbon_eps_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2803 May 25 22:13 karbon_kontour_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2967 May 25 22:13 karbon_msod_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3063 May 25 22:13 karbon_oodraw_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2674 May 25 22:13 karbon_png_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2674 May 25 22:13 karbon_ps_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2677 May 25 22:13 karbon_svg_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2379 May 25 22:13 karbon_svg_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2149 May 25 22:13 karbon_wmf_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2536 May 25 22:13 karbon_wmf_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2571 May 25 22:13 karbon_xcf_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1422 May 25 22:13 karbondefaulttools.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 888 May 25 22:13 karbonimagetool.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4754 May 25 22:13 karbonpart.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 963 May 25 22:13 karbonzoomtool.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1035 May 25 19:45 kfile_abiword.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1057 May 25 19:45 kfile_gnumeric.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1930 May 25 19:45 kfile_koffice.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2024 May 25 19:45 kfile_ooo.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3739 May 25 19:45 kodocinfopropspage.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2586 May 25 19:45 kofficethumbnail.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2456 May 25 19:45 kounavail.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3406 May 25 21:05 krita_cmyk_u16_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3938 May 25 21:05 krita_gray_u16_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1334 May 25 21:05 krita_jpeg_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1327 May 25 21:05 krita_jpeg_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3391 May 25 21:05 krita_lms_f32_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1831 May 25 21:05 krita_magick_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2551 May 25 21:05 krita_magick_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1516 May 25 21:05 krita_openexr_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1515 May 25 21:05 krita_openexr_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1326 May 25 21:05 krita_png_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1319 May 25 21:05 krita_png_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1337 May 25 21:05 krita_raw_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3457 May 25 21:05 krita_rgb_f16half_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3172 May 25 21:05 krita_rgb_f32_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3068 May 25 21:05 krita_rgb_u16_plugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1363 May 25 21:05 krita_tiff_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1358 May 25 21:05 krita_tiff_import.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1458 May 25 21:05 kritabumpmapfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2543 May 25 21:05 kritacimg.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3768 May 25 21:05 kritacmykplugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 605 May 25 21:05 kritacolorrange.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1640 May 25 21:05 kritacolorsfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932 May 25 21:05 kritacolorspaceconversion.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1549 May 25 21:05 kritaconvolutionfilters.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2819 May 25 21:05 kritadefaultpaintops.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1431 May 25 21:05 kritadefaulttools.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 587 May 25 21:05 kritadropshadow.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1351 May 25 21:05 kritaembossfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1957 May 25 21:05 kritaexample.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 778 May 25 21:05 kritafiltersgallery.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4116 May 25 21:05 kritagrayplugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 813 May 25 21:05 kritahistogram.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 725 May 25 21:05 kritahistogramdocker.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1999 May 25 21:05 kritaimageenhancement.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1410 May 25 21:05 kritaimagesize.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1664 May 25 21:05 kritaoilpaintfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2773 May 25 21:05 kritapart.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1614 May 25 21:05 kritapixelizefilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1698 May 25 21:05 kritaraindropsfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3611 May 25 21:05 kritargbplugin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 906 May 25 21:05 kritarotateimage.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 May 25 21:05 kritaroundcornersfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 785 May 25 21:05 kritascreenshot.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1999 May 25 21:05 kritascripting.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1107 May 25 21:05 kritaselectiontools.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1143 May 25 21:05 kritaseparatechannels.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 871 May 25 21:05 kritashearimage.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 819 May 25 21:05 kritasmalltilesfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1273 May 25 21:05 kritasmearybrush.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 633 May 25 21:05 kritasobelfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 994 May 25 21:05 kritatoolcrop.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2596 May 25 21:05 kritatoolfilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1106 May 25 21:05 kritatoolpolygon.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1079 May 25 21:05 kritatoolpolyline.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1263 May 25 21:05 kritatoolselectsimilar.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 968 May 25 21:05 kritatoolstar.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 961 May 25 21:05 kritatooltransform.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3912 May 25 21:05 kritawetplugin.desktop -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1066107 May 25 22:13 ksycoca -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3974 May 25 19:45 thesaurustool.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3103 May 25 19:45 xslt_export.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3045 May 25 19:45 xslt_import.desktop
(In reply to comment #1) > Can you check if /usr/share/services is by chance 0700 (no access for users)? > "Can't find the edit key." I did change the rights to this directory a couple of days ago to try to fix my problems with Kaffeine (kaffeine.desktop error) and amaroK. But it didn't work, although Kaffeine fixed itself somehow and amaroK-1.4-beta2 worked after the xine-lib fix. Krita is a fresh install as of today. And it gave me this error. Karbon14 works perfectly btw. My guess is that something has gone wrong with my split ebuild KDE install. But I can't figure out what exactly. I upgraded GCC last Sunday according to the GCC upgrade docs and did a complete "emerge -eav system" and "emerge -eav world".
Works fine here with KDE 3.5.2. If this is still an issue for you, reopen please.