Bug 355473 – app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1 requires hal irrespective of the USE flags

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jan Hrabe 2011-02-18 18:56:20 UTC]

I have removed the hal USE flag from make.conf and uninstalled hal from the system.  After "emerge -uDN world" and "revdep-rebuild", everything works fine except the k3b, which cannot find any CD/DVD writer.  From the messages it produces, it seems it still wants hal:

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:~> k3b
K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0)
QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&)  error:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" 

K3bQProcess::QProcess(0x0)
k3b(4963)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_projects" with KXMLGUIFactory! 

k3b(4963)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_dir_tree" with KXMLGUIFactory! 

k3b(4963)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "view_contents" with KXMLGUIFactory! 

k3b(4963)/kdeui (kdelibs): Attempt to use QAction "location_bar" with KXMLGUIFactory! 

QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&)  error:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" 

QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&)  error:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown" 

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I tried to explicitly put "-hal" for k3b into packages.use and recompile it but it makes no difference.  This is my emerge --info:

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:~> emerge --info
Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5345_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:00:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.4-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="en_US"
LC_ALL="en_US"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi afs alsa berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk iconv ieee1394 imagemagick jpeg kerberos latex lcms libnotify lock mad mikmod mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pic png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Matthias Liebig 2011-02-18 19:27:51 UTC]

You might need KDE 4.6 for that. Which KDE version do you have?

[Comment 2 Jan Hrabe 2011-02-18 19:37:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You might need KDE 4.6 for that. Which KDE version do you have?
> 

Version xfce4 :-) .  I only use k3b and kstars from KDE.  The kdelibs and kdebase-runtime-meta both indicate version 4.4.5, which I believe is the current stable one.  But the messages printed out when the k3b ebuild was installed urged me to avoid hal.

[Comment 3 Matthias Liebig 2011-02-18 20:12:57 UTC]

Those forum topics seem to be related:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-863357.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-814818.html
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965.html

Afair, k3b with kdelibs+solid <= 4.5 still needs hal. Since you don't use KDE, you could probably keyword the KDE libraries and use 4.6.

[Comment 4 Jan Hrabe 2011-02-19 18:57:08 UTC]

> Afair, k3b with kdelibs+solid <= 4.5 still needs hal. Since you don't use KDE,
> you could probably keyword the KDE libraries and use 4.6.

Thanks for your suggestions.  I tried keywording the kdelibs but that seems to require some conflicting dependencies.  My solution was to give up on k3b and install the bashburn instead, which works just fine.  

I would like to suggest that the ebuild for k3b should require hal to be installed.

[Comment 5 Matthias Liebig 2011-02-23 14:29:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> I would like to suggest that the ebuild for k3b should require hal to be
> installed.

Since it works without HAL when using the KDE libraries (solid) from 4.6, depending on HAL is counterproductive. I can't speak for the Gentoo KDE team, but this bug will probably remain open until KDE 4.6 gets stabilized.

[Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-04-12 21:56:17 UTC]

Your observation is 100% correct. In your case kdelibs-4.4 requires hal (and not k3b). Insofar, that's not really a bug, more a missing feature of kdelibs-4.4.