Bug 309171 – kde-base/kdm-4.4.4: cannot install kdm themes

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Pontesegger 2010-03-12 19:28:48 UTC]

KDE 4 offers a nice feature in systemsettings: fetching new designs for kdm from kde-look.org.

1) most of the previews are not downloaded
2) when trying to install a theme I always get a "cannot install" error message

I am running systemsettings via kdesu

Here is the list of installed kde packages:

 * installed packages
[I--] [  ] kde-base/systemsettings-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kde-env-4.3.5-r1 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kde-l10n-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeadmin-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-colorschemes-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-desktopthemes-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-emoticons-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-sounds-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-styles-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-wallpapers-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeartwork-weatherwallpapers-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-cursors-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-data-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-desktoptheme-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves-4.3.5-r1 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-menu-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-menu-icons-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 (0)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdebugdialog-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdegraphics-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdenetwork-filesharing-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdepasswd-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdessh-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdesu-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/kdeutils-meta-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/libkdegames-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/phonon-kde-4.3.5 (4.3)
[I--] [  ] kde-base/pykde4-4.3.5-r1 (4.3)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.kdesu systemsettings
2.switch to KDM settings
3.tag design
4.fetch new designs
5. select one and click "install"

Actual Results:  
error message

Expected Results:  
install new design

[Comment 1 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-04-18 19:58:33 UTC]

Have you tried kde-4.4.2?

[Comment 2 Christian Pontesegger 2010-04-19 19:33:37 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you tried kde-4.4.2?

No I'll stick to stable packages. 4.4 branch is still masked. I'll give it a try as soon as it is unmasked

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-06-09 18:35:19 UTC]

I can confirm this for 4.4.4.

Interestingly, if you do NOT use kdesu, but manually su and then run systemsettings, the installation works!

(Now have to figure out where the debug output of kdesu-started programs goes...)

[Comment 4 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-06-09 18:45:08 UTC]

kdesu kcmshell4 kdm

- which directly gets you to the kdm module - works perfectly.

???

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-06-14 21:26:51 UTC]

Created attachment 235327 [details]
stderr output of systemsettings (failure case, called with kdesu)

Obviously the problem is a missing DBUS... :(

This looks like an upstream-worthy problem.

[Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-10-12 19:58:26 UTC]

Is fixed in kde-4.5.2.