after merging the update: arts-1.3.2-r1 KDE no longer functions properly. KDE will start, arts will segfault and kdesktop will fail to run. unmerging arts allows normal operation of KDE. I merged arts again, and rebuilt kdemultimedia. arts no longer segfaults, but kdesktop still fails to run. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge an older version of arts 2. emerge arts-1.3.2-r1 3. attempt to use KDE as a desktop Actual Results: No error output from kdesktop. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.06GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4-r1 [2.3.4 (#1, Feb 7 2005, 21:40:39)] distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.8.5-r3, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /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="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoohttp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-z,now" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib alsa aotuv apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 caps cdparanoia crypt cups divx4linux djbfft dmalloc dpms dts dv dvd dvdread dxr3 ecc edl encode esd f77 fam fame flac font-server foomaticdb fpx gcj gdbm gif gimp gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml idea ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack jai java javascript jce jimi jms jmx jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdeenablefinal lcms libcaca libclamav libg++ libwww live lzomad matroska mikmod mjpeg mmap mmx mmx2 mng motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail mozp3p mozxmlterm mpeg multicall mythtv nas ncurses network nptl nvidia offensive oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl pic png povray pvm python qt quicktime readline real rtc samba sblive scanner sdl silc slangslp sms sndfile spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales v4l v4l2 vidix wifi wmf xanimxine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL
1.3.2-r1 is a very minor update, and it is not likely to be the main cause of artsd crashing, and as you said, the crash could not be reproduced with that version afterwards... Unfortunately, arts crashing randomly at startup is not something never seen, as you can see by searching http://bugs.kde.org, and we can't do much for it. For the kdesktop problem, some hint would be useful (something in ~/.xsession-errors?), since I cannot reproduce it here.
I have the same problem here. I don't know if aRts is the problem, but there were some KDE related updates and now KDE is very instable and lot of things are broken. Amarok doesn't start anymore: amaroK: [Loader] Starting amarokapp.. amaroK: [Loader] Don't run gdb, valgrind, etc. against this binary! Use amarokapp. amarokapp: symbol lookup error: amarokapp: undefined symbol: _ZTI9QGLWidget
oh well, I enabled the new 'kdeenablefinal'. But I had never any problems with myconf="--enable-final" emerge kde in the past. But perhaps the new use-flag broke something?
There are some errors starting artsd that might help, but after I rebuilt kdemultimedia they went away. Stefan Briesenick, do you have any debug info? I got them doing a: artswrapper -l0 I can't seem to get any debug info from kdesktop (which seems to be the main problem here).
no debug output right now. I try to re-emerge some of the kdelibs/kdebase and such things. If it still exists, I try to get some debug info. btw: there was also an nvidia-kernel update. And amarok shows an GL error. Also 'slickclock'. Hmm....
I thought maybe I'd rebuild kdebase, but now we have the following problem: checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking for Qt... libraries /usr/qt/3/lib, headers /usr/qt/3/include using -mt checking for moc... /usr/qt/3/bin/moc checking for uic... /usr/qt/3/bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... libraries /usr/kde/3.3/lib, headers /usr/kde/3.3/include checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no configure: error: you need to install kdelibs first. !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdebase-3.3.2-r2 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 141, Exitcode 1 !!! died running ./configure, kde_src_compile:configure !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Maybe we just have a path problem?
yeahh!!! same problem here. "emerge amarok" gives the same error. But: "emerge kdelibs" works and then you can emerge "kdebase" or "amarok" again.
For this problem: checking if UIC has KDE plugins available... no see for instance bug 81066 or 81511, it's related to a Qt upgrade probably. > amarokapp: symbol lookup error: amarokapp: undefined symbol: _ZTI9QGLWidget this is strange, did you recompile Qt with USE="-opengl"? What have you upgraded other than arts? qt, kdelibs, kdebase... > There are some errors starting artsd that might help, but after I rebuilt > kdemultimedia they went away. Sometimes this can happen when mixing things compiled with gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4 maybe this is the case? See bug 61146 or 67532 for further information.
Gregorio, this is a fresh system. Everything is built with the same version of gcc. So far, I've rebuilt just about every base kde build to try and solve the problem. If I run KDE for the root user, everything is fine. Maybe it's permissions?
any hint when running 'kdesktop' form a konsole?
Gregorio, no just a vague message: (output using gdb) [New Thread -1233053376 (LWP 4187)] Detaching after fork from child process 4190. kdesktop: Saver Engine started, timeout: 900 kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-snafu/ksycoca kdesktop: KDIconView::initDotDirectories found dir /home/snafu/Desktop/ kio (KTrader): KServiceTypeProfile::offers( ThumbCreator, ) kio (KTrader): Returning 12 offers kdesktop: m_excludeListkdedevice/floppy5_mounted,kdedevice/cdwriter_mounted,kdedevice/cdrom_mounted,kdedevice/dvd_mounted,kdedevice/floppy_mounted,kdedevice/hdd_mounted,kdedevice/nfs_mounted,kdedevice/smb_mounted,kdedevice/zip_mounted,print/printer,kdedevice/floppy5_unmounted,kdedevice/cdwriter_unmounted,kdedevice/cdrom_unmounted,kdedevice/dvd_unmounted,kdedevice/floppy_unmounted,kdedevice/hdd_unmounted,kdedevice/nfs_unmounted,kdedevice/smb_unmounted,kdedevice/zip_unmounted kdesktop: m_excludeList / item count:19 ERROR: Communication problem with kdesktop, it probably crashed. Whish is, of course, not much of an error and there are no "verbose" or "debug" command line options available. Next new crash is: kcminit It seems that the more I re-build, the worse it gets. Which package provides kdesktop?
> Which package provides kdesktop? kdebase Have you tried cleaning completely /tmp/kde* and /var/tmp/kdecache* and restarting everything? The permissions on /tmp/.ICE-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix should be considered, too, since it seems that inter process communication with dcop does not work at all.
The only way to clear up the kdesktop problem was to move my .kde-3.3 directory and allow kde to start over again with fresh settings. However, a few applications still crash, namely kcminit. I removed all of the temp files in /tmp, /var/tmp and ~/.mcop etc. and it didn't help. These errors all started after the last kde package updates: kdelibs-3.3.2-r2 arts-1.3.2-r1 kdebase-3.3.2-r2 The QT update came later. Is there something that changed in those builds that would affect normal operations?
after rebuilding all KDE compoments, everything is fine. I think, it was the 'kdeenablefinal' which broke things when only some components are merged with it. After remerging *all* KDE components with 'kdeenablefinal', my problems are gone. ;) emerge --newuse world is your friend. ;)
Stefan: Thank you for the info on that command line option. I never knew it existed. However, it didn't help. Gregorio: kcminit is crashing when trying to lad the kgamma module. I'll investigate further. As fo the initial bug, I suppose we've fixed it somehow - that is, if Stefan is up and running. Sure was an interesting mystery.
I'm up and running again. beside the amarok problem and the compile errors after, my "Plastik" were gone. Not available anymore in KControl. Strange look. Solution: 1. (re-)emerge kdelibs 2. (re-)emerge all other kde stuff all problems are gone now.
So, all problems seem to happen when loading modules provided by packages that were not recompiled... (arts loads modules provided by kdemultimedia at startup, and kgamma is provided by kdegraphics). Really strange... by the way, the problem of disappearing styles is again bug 81066.
Gregorio: Correct it seems to be a problem with modules. I managed to get around the kcminit issue by renaming kcm_kgamma.so to kcm_kgamma.so-old so that kcminit wouldn't find it and try to execute it.
Still having problems? Or found any hints?
it works for me. If you have such strange happenings, just re-emerge kdelibs/kdebase and in this case kdeartwork and your problems are gone. Not nice, but it works.
Still having difficulties with the kgamma module (with KDE 3.4 this time) as well as one named kdns. Should I file a different bug report?
> Should I file a different bug report? That's not needed. Have you tried without setting LDFLAGS, this really seems a compiler/linker problem...
No reply from reporter.
(Could have sworn I updated this) OK, I gave up. I tried a plethora of different compiles, flags etc. and none helped. I wound up removing the offending modules from /usr/kde/3.4/lib/kde3/kcm_kgamma.so etc. No huge loss.
Have you tried without LDFLAGS, too? And disabling ccache? (otherwise any try could be useless)
Oh, I didn't think to disable ccache. I'll try tonight if you like.
