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Strange behaviour using removable media - Squeeze & Konqueror
by Ken Heard 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 1. I recently upgraded one of my three computers from Debian Lenny to Squeeze with KDE-Trinity 3.5.13. (The other two computers still have Lenny with KDE 3.5.10.) 2. The default view profile when Trinity Konqueror is loaded is “File Management”. That profile is configured to load Konqueror with two tabs, the first one being “system:/media” and the second one “/home/$USER/docs”, but with the contents of the second tab displayed on the monitor. 3. When a user logs on for the first time, opens Konqueror and clicks on the “system:/media” tab no content is shown. If however the user closes Konqueror, opens it a second time and clicks on the “system:/media” tab a second time, now the tab lists all the “Remote Shares”. Why is this list shown on second and subsequent times of opening Konqueror, but not the first time? 4. This box has three removable media drives installed: a DVD drive, an Iomega Zip 750 drive and a 9 cm floppy drive. Installing a CD or DVD drive causes the “Removable Media KDE daemon” to open in a separate window but also adds another line to the “system:/media” tab which identifies the installed medium by name, e.g., “Trips001”. It is then possible to mount this medium from the “system:/media” tab, read its contents and ultimately either to unmount or eject it. The last two operations cause the identifying line to disappear. 5. Two Zip 750 disks are normally used for backups in this box; but Konqueror does not behave the same way for each one. Installation in the drive of one of the disks will cause a new line to be added to the “system:/media” tab, “ZIP750” which corresponds to the mount point for this drive (UUID=348F-3C8C) established in “/etc/fstab”. It is then possible to mount this medium, read from it, write to it and ultimately unmount it. On unmounting the “ZIP750” line disappears. 6. Installation of the other Zip 750 disk in the same drive opens a *different* new line in the “system:/media” tab. Instead of reading “ZIP750” it reads “752M removable media”. Konqueror will not permit mounting or unmounting this particular Zip 750 disk; it says that the user does not have permission to open this disk and that this device node does not appear in “/etc/fstab”. This disk can however be mounted (and unmounted) in an Xterm. Once mounted in that way it will show up in the “system:/media” tab as mounted and can be read from and written to in that tab. So, why do two Zip 750 disks installed in the same drive behave differently in Konqueror? 7. At this point it occurred to me that the first Zip 750 disk was, so to speak, a virgin disk; whereas the second was not. The second in fact had tarballs of files in the Squeeze box but written to it from a Lenny box. So, I decided to restore the “virginity” of the second by running in the Squeeze box “mkfs.vfat /dev/sda4”, which of course obliterated those files. I then tried in the Squeeze box to mount it both in an Xterm and in the “system:/media” tab of Konqueror; it would not mount at all in either place. I then went back to the Lenny box, logged in as the user whose files are in the Squeeze box and was able to write to this disk backup tarballs of files in the Squeeze box. I took this disk back to the Squeeze box and was now able to open it there in the “system:/media” tab as “750M removable media” and to perform all the usual removable disk functions. I also however discovered that now I cannot mount either Zip 750 disk from an Xterm. When I try I now receive the message “I could not determine the file system type and none was specified.” Strange. 8. For both these two drives, the DVD and the Iomega Zip 750, the “Removable Media KDE daemon” opens. Since I prefer to open these in a Konqueror tab instead of in a new window, I would like to be able to prevent that daemon from opening in a new window. Is there a way to do so? 9. Finally, the floppy drive is not recognized at all in the Squeeze box. With a disk installed it does not show up in the “system:/media”, nor can it be mounted in an Xterm. What, if anything, be done to use floppies with Squeeze and KDE-Trinity Konqueror? Ken Heard, Toronto, Canada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEUEARECAAYFAk8AtHkACgkQlNlJzOkJmTdvbgCVFh5z0+cbK6nuQTZxqAqHplfQ bACfV4UW5gvBf1TbRc2dOnIP5bhY2g4= =LpLP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Problem with KMail 1.9.9
by Lisi 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Hi! I am switching my husband from Thunderbird to KMail, as I would rather have him on KMail. But I have promised him that I will make it look as similar as possible to what he is used to, so that nothing that he does needs to be different. I know his way of working, and this is achievable. Except.... Except for my current problem. Yesterday I started to set KMail up, and made a few entries before I had to go. Today I switched off the favourite folders pane, went to carry on setting up where I left off - and noticed that there was no inbox. Obviously I can create a folder called Inbox, but it puts itself at the bottom of the default folders list with a standard folder icon, instead of at the top of them with the inbox icon. Furthermore, the few settings I entered yesterday have disappeared. :-( PEBKAC is a definite possibility, given that I haven't been well and am on a large dose of a strong antibiotic, but even if it is my fault, I still need to put it right. I have tried to purge and then install, but that seemed to intend to remove most of the desktop. So I ran aptitude reinstall. Nothing changed. I ran aptitude autoclean, aptitude reinstall, no joy. I then went on to Google. There was lots on disappearing emails, but nothing on disappearing folders. And that was after I had managed to get rid of most of the KDE4 stuff. So, help!! Thanks, Lisi

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Trinity and Fedora 16
by Jan Litwiński 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

I just install trinity on Fedora 16 and I can't start it becouse it is not listed in gdm. Any help? TIA -- Jan Litwiński http://janek.wroc.prv.pl/ Linux is like a wigwam no gates no windows but apache inside

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mirror mirror.ets.kth.se broken
by Philipp Hagemeister 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

mirror.ets.kth.se should be taken out of the list of mirrors; it seems completely broken at the moment (almost everything 404s). $ curl -I http://ppa2.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/redirect.php?file=trinity-build… HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Location: http://mirror.ets.kth.se/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/ $ curl -I http://mirror.ets.kth.se/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.13/ HTTP/1.1 404 file does not exist Server: publicfile Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:32:37 GMT Content-Length: 47 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

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kdm authentication failures
by Alan 27 Dec '11

27 Dec '11

Hello, I can't get kdm to authenticate my user. I built kdebase from revision 1236975, and I configured it as follows: mkdir build; cd build cmake .. \ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \ -DBUILD_ALL=On \ -DBUILD_DOC=Off \ -DWITH_SHADOW=On Yet I am unable to authenticate my user. This system doesn't have pam. This used to work with kde 3.5.10 when I ran configure with --with-shadow. Suggestions?

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mirror uidaho down
by relosrl 26 Dec '11

26 Dec '11

There are several hours I try to install trinity, with the following settings: deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/ubuntu natty main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-v3.5.13/ubuntu natty main deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1… natty main deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps-v3.5.1… natty main but, mirror.its.uidaho.edu is unreachable. Are there any alternative mirror?

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Problems in vlc 1.1.3 on Squeeze+Trinity 3.5.13 on VB 4.1.6r74727 on Lenny
by Lisi 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Hello all! I'm afraid that I have no idea where the problem lies. It is probably relevant that I am a complete ignoramus where multimedia is concerned. I need to run vlc simultaneously with wireshark in order to analyse the traces for an assignment in an online course I am doing. I can run Wireshark on Trinity on Squeeze, but not on Lenny. (I believe there is a bug.) I can run vlc in Lenny, but not in Trinity/Squeeze. And yes, they are different versions. See below for extract from Squeeze syslog. All suggestions welcomed!! Even RTFM, so long as the admonition includes which %^&*!!$ Manual to read! If there is no way it could be Trinity, I'll take my request elsewhere, but I didn't like to cross-post. And I find life more comfortable if I don't force insecure KDE4 users to make snide remarks about KDE3 lovers! Thanks, all. Lisi Extract from syslog (sr0 is the correct identification of my optical drive): <quote> Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444680] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444686] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444690] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444694] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444695] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444701] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.444709] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 4096 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524892] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524899] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524903] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524908] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524909] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524915] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.524924] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548711] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Unhandled sense code Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548717] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548722] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Sense Key : Medium Error [current] Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548727] Info fld=0x0 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548728] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] Add. Sense: Unrecovered read error Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548735] sr 1:0:0:0: [sr0] CDB: Read(10): 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 Dec 20 01:18:56 Trinity kernel: [123703.548743] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0 </quote>

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About translations: Turkish Translations
by atilla ontas 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

Hi. I'm <tarakbumba> a Turkish translator of Mandriva Linux, Mageia Linux, Arch Linux and some other projects. I would like to translate TDE into Turkish. First of all, is TDE have a web translation interface, like pootel, transifex, launchpad etc.? If it has, would you mind to give their adresses? Also, is there a wiki page to explain translation process?

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KDE-Trinity 3.5.13 hung my machine
by Ken Heard 19 Dec '11

19 Dec '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 As part of upgrading from Debian Lenny to Squeeze, I also upgraded from KDE-Trinity 3.5.12 (Lenny version) to 3.5.13 (Squeeze version). After the upgrade finished, I tried to open Konqueror; the result was a hung machine. - From as virtual terminal (ctrl-alt-F1) I rebooted the machine. On reboot the GUI did not appear; the machine opened with the shell bang. I the logged in as root and ran the command "startx". The result was a solid blue screen at ctrl-alt-F7; further action was impossible. I am at a loss as to what to do next. Specifically what should I do to get the login screen so that I can log in as a user? Ken Heard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAk7rmrEACgkQlNlJzOkJmTerSwCdFciOy1o8EknR42LYmvaCx3pU kkwAni8wUy9YJgU3uAq4zmH+ULpLCCm1 =hDgu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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running apps as root
by Greg Madden 16 Dec '11

16 Dec '11

TDE 3.5.13 Debian Squeeze I was trying to run 'kcron' as root, from a root prompt in konsole. 'kcron' is not found, I have to use full path '/opt/trinity/bin/kcron'. This brings up kcron but trying to add a cron job causes a crash, the crash handler pops up. I get this info from the terminal: "In file /build/buildd/kdeadmin-trinity-3.5.13/./kcron/ktview.cpp, line 372: Out of memory KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kcron path = <unknown> pid = 4347 kdeinit: Got EXEC_NEW 'drkonqi' from socket. Could not load library! Trying exec.... kdeinit: PID 4413 terminated." I noticed that using the 'export' command, there is no reference to KDEDIR(S) or PATH to the Trinity stuff. I installed the metapackage 'kdebase-trinity', 'kdepim-trinity' and a few apps, not the full DE. It seems like kcron can't find a library. what sets up the TDE environment for root ? -- Peace Greg

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