KDE maintainer gang story is that "startkde takes care of setting KDEDIRS" and that /etc/env.d doesn't need to set it. This story, however, breaks KDE 4.2 (4.1.96) applications on ALL OTHER DESKTOPS as they do not run, and should not run, the startkde script. Interesting backtraces after upgrading KDE-versions using kde-testing overlay before re-adding KDEDIRS to 43kdepaths-4.2 (I just put it in 40kdepaths-for-now, so I personally don't care that much anymore) include: pplication: Konqueror (konqueror), signal SIGABRT Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Thread 1 (Thread 0xb615f6d0 (LWP 20748)): [KCrash Handler] #6 0xb80d4424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #7 0xb66d3c20 in *__GI_raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #8 0xb66d5478 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:88 #9 0xb73ac34d in qt_message_output (msgType=QtFatalMsg, buf=0xbffed3c0 "!!!!!!! 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\n") at global/qglobal.cpp:2108 #10 0xb73ac426 in qFatal (msg=0xb4294af4 "!!!!!!! ERROR !!!!!!! - KHTML default stylesheet version mismatch. Aborting. Check your installation. File used was: %s. Expected STYLE_VERSION %d\n") at global/qglobal.cpp:2309 #11 0xb407213f in khtml::CSSStyleSelector::loadDefaultStyle (s=0x8272430, doc=0x84d1fd8) at /tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.1.96/work/kdelibs-4.1.96/khtml/css/cssstyleselector.cpp:408 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Layman -a kde-testing, emerge @kde-4.2 2. Login using GNOME, fluxbox, anything but KDE 3. Start some KDE application, watch it crash or misbehave 4. Fix it by adding KDEDIRS to 43kdepaths-4.2 5. Upgrade to the next RC/snapshot 6. Get the same problem again 7. Get annoyed 8. Stick KDEDIRS in some other /etc/env.d file 9. File bug Actual Results: Crashes etc. Expected Results: stuff works. Thank you for reading all of this, your contributions (if any) to GNU/Gentoo and your consideration regarding KDEDIRS.
Created attachment 178409 [details] 43kdepaths-4.2 + KDEDIRS="/usr/kde/4.2" A patch with + KDEDIRS="/usr/kde/4.2"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267793 ***
