Bug 240422

Summary:	kdelibs-4.1.2-r1 unsets KDEDIRS breaks some applications
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Evan Teran <evan.teran>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Description Evan Teran 2008-10-07 20:24:38 UTC

The new kdelibs-4.1.2-r1 ebuild no longer sets the KDEDIRS environment variable. Unfortunately, if you have kdelibs-3.5.x installed, some applications seem to break.

For example, running kinfocenter and konqueror (the kde 4.1.2 versions) yields these errors:

!!!!!!! ERROR !!!!!!! - KHTML default stylesheet version mismatch. Aborting. Check your installation. File used was: /usr/kde/3.5/share/apps/khtml/css/html4.css. Expected STYLE_VERSION 1

KCrash: Application 'kinfocenter' crashing...
sock_file=/home/user/.kde4.1/socket-theta/kdeinit4__0
<unknown program name>(7400)/: Communication problem with  "kinfocenter" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

Note, I also installed using the kdeprefix use flag if that is relevant.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Install kdelibs-4.1.2-r1 and kdelibs-3.5.9-r4 at the same time
log into a KDE4 session
run kinfocenter or konqueror
Actual Results:  
A style sheet issue causes a crash

Expected Results:  
It should run correctly

running "KDEDIRS=/usr/kde/4.1/ kinfocenter" works correctly.

Comment 1 Marcus D. Hanwell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-08 00:24:49 UTC

Could you upgrade to kdelibs-3.5.10-r1 and let me know if this is resolved. We are phasing out KDEDIRS as it will ultimately let KDE function much more smoothly.

Comment 2 Evan Teran 2008-10-08 15:27:19 UTC

That fixed it, I'll change the resolution to fixed.