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Karmic: how to delete /dev/sr1

Hi all,
I have an external USB hard disk from Western Digital (model My Passport).

This unit comes with two partitions, that I see and I can mount:

* /dev/sr1 that is understood as a CD
* /dev/sdb1 that is a normal NTFS partition

If I mount the partitions "mount" says:

...
/dev/sr1 on /media/WD SmartWare type udf
(ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=1000)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type fuseblk
(rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

The problem is tah I'm not able to destroy, eliminate, kill :-) the
/dev/sr1 partition

With the partitions unmounted, nor "gparted" nor "fdis

Where is that darn icon?

I downloaded a nice icon for Ubuntuone that I since lost. I set it as the
icon for a folder and want to use again. After looking at all over the place
online, going through every single page, it is no longer out there. The odd
thing is that it still shows up as the icon in Dolphin's places sidebar even
though it has been deleted. It showa up in the Lancelot Favorites too, but I
think it gets it from the same place. I searched my machine from top to
bottom and cannot find it anywhere.
So my question is where does Dolphin keep the icons that it shows in the
Places sidebar?

Project Timelord

Hi

While reading some article in slashdot i've found you guys has launched the
Timelord Project, i was intrigue and checked out the information you made
available(http://www.kubuntu.org/news/timelord), there you said some "Bug
triage" help is needed, to be sincere, i don't know what bug triage is, but
if you explain me this and if i can do this task i'll give it a try to help
you, also for a brief moment i was in the kde translation team(spanish), so
if you need some help with translation i'll try to be helpful.

Now that i let you know my interest in be helpful to the project i'll share
some

Have Acroread 9.3 plugin, but Firefox won't load .pdf files

Hi, all.
FF 3.0.18 is my current web browser and the Adobe Reader v. 9.3 my
preferred pdf-viewing application.
FF Preferences - Applications shows /"Use Adobe Reader 9.3 (in
Firefox)"/ as the action for PDF file content type.
But when in a web page I click on a link pointing to a .pdf document, I
get this:

/Could not launch Adobe Reader 9.3. Please make sure it exists in
PATH variable in the environment.

Moderator message: Don't let your Yahoo mailbox fill up

Hi all,

recently a lot of users with a @yahoo.com mail address have been
unsubscribed in the members list by an automatic bounce, signifying
that the mail could not be delivered.

This usually happens if you exceed your allowed online space, so
please, be careful to not let your online mailbox overflow. If you
don't use the webmail and automatically redirect to Kmail, you should
not let too much old mail pile up in your online box.
@yahoo.com and @hotmail.com are typical targets for spambots, so this
can happen very fast.

can't boot into kubuntu 9.10 after installation

This is a peculiar problem (to me at least).
I spent a couple of days trying to install various recent Debian releases
...

File association defaults

I am having an issue with file association defaults in Kubuntu/Ubuntu.
In Firefox the default for pdf mimetypes was to ask for information on
how they should be handled. When the dialogue box pops up as a result of
clicking on the link, the open with entry lists Ocular as the default,
but if I look at the kde file associations for pdf files the first
application listed in the list of handling applications is Acrobat.

Programs that I had no idea existed.

I have used Ubuntu and linux for about 12 years and had no idea that
these food programs existed until I read this:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100301145202407/FoodandDrink.html
No worries, I had nothing to do with writing or the website and it is
a very short read. All the programs are in the repos of my system
9.10.

Ark -rar problem

hello all,
The '.rar' extention in the Archiving tool "Ark" is not functioning properly. It is not extracting, compressing nor opening or archiving .rar files saying "failed to locate program 'unrar' in path"

Re: Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

Please turn that passive agressiveness in something constructive and at
least give a link to the bug report on launchpad.

high load average

From the 'top' report, i can see that kubuntu karmic on my laptop has a
steady heavy load, about 8.
No applications can be charged in particular. Several of them take part,
using 20% to 40% of cpu time.
I am wondering about other contributions to the total load average: i/o
and graphic card usage.

How can i monitor the graphic card usage? (mine is intel 915)

Thank you
----P

konqueror sessions

I find konqueror saving sessions facility really unsatisfying:
- Often, after having regularly logged out, at my logging in, konqueor
complains that the last session crashed, prompting for recovering
- Recovering sessions is seldom accomplished properly:
- sometimes the number of windows is doubled: two identical copies,
showing the same list of tabs, are built (often the two copies are placed
in two different desktops);
- sometimes some windows are missing, with no warning about what has
happened
- a window is always placed in the last active desktop, as before
logging off, rather t

akonadi error

Akonadi crashes at every log in, in my kubuntu karmic (on laptop)
Error seems due to mysql.

I have never customized the mysql configuration. Should i set up mysql,
by editing any files?
I am puzzling why kubuntu has been delivered without proper mysql setup.

Thank you
---P

kubuntu and lucid?

Will lucid also be an LTS release for kubuntu??

Kubuntu/Ubuntu does not remove everything from memory at shutdown

Hi,
I am having an issue with Kubuntu/Ubuntu 9.10 on my tri-boot
system. If I shut Kubuntu down and warm boot into Win 7 I do not get any
sound from windows or applications I run. To get sound in windows I have
to shut Kubuntu down and boot into Mandriva because at shutdown it wipes
everything from memory. What need to be done in Kubuntu to get it to
wipe everything from memory at shutdown as Mandriva does?

regards,
Steve

(OT) Time Tracking Tool

For over a year I've been relying on KTimeTracker (formerly KArm) to track
my time at work. Unfortunately the newest version has removed a feature that
I depending on, which is showing the total time worked in the status bar at
the bottom, so I'm looking for a new tool that can work within KDE. The main
features that I need are that I can track time to individual tasks, but also
get a total of the time I've spent working on all my projects during the
day.

Anyone got any ideas?

Referring to Operation Timelord

I was reading the Operation Timelord page, and it said that if you
wanted to help out, contact the team at the development portion of the
contact list. I'm not sure if this is the right e-mail address/mailing
list or not. So, I'm willing to offer up my help in any way that I can.

As for coding, I've got some experience in Java and Visual Basic.NET.
I've also had programming courses in Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, and other
obsolete languages.

I have a blog, in which I intend to frequently post about Kubuntu and
Ubuntu. In fact, Kubuntu is my preferred distro.

kde-l10n-common

Salut!

Recently we stumbled across weird out-of-syncness concerning our kde-l10n
packages. Since we have them all packaged up individually it is quite the PITA
to ensure that everything is in sync and all packages are using state of the
art packaging.

As a result of that I remembered a project I suggested like a year ago, though
I did not come across to implement it. But this time I did ;)

kde-l10n-common [1] is a regular debian-only packaging branch like we use it
for most of our core packages.

yahoo crashing kopete at sign on

Is anybody aware of an issue with yahoo accounts causing kopete to crash on
sign in? I've had the issue since going to 4.4. At first I just noticed that
kopete was crashing on sign in ad after disabling and re-enabling all my
accounts I relaized it was just yahoo causing the issue. Sometimes it signs
in fine for little while. One time I realized that the yahoo avatar was set
differently than the main kopete avatar... when I fixed it the crash was gone
for a little while.

root partition growing

Hello,

i have kubuntu 9.10. My first harddrive (1TB) has a boot-partition and a second
partition with dm-crypt and a lvm in it. the lvm has a root, tmp, home, ..
partition.
I get with du and df a difference. I hade the same Problem a view weeks before.
On the root was not enougth space left and i can't login on kde. I didn't find
the loss space and reinstalled the system.

cannot run external program in Kate

Hello again,

I try to configure an external program in Kate which I want to run via a menu
entry or hotkey. However, if I try to run this program from within Kate, a
Konsole window pops up and is immediately closed.

When I run, for example, the preconfigured script “Email CVS Diff for Current
Document”, this behaves as it should. However, if I copy its configuration an
run the copy, the problem described above appears.

Any thoughts?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang

no terminal in Kate

Hello,

I cannot find a way to get a terminal inside Kate. The manual (which is for an
older version) tells me that I have to use some menu item below the “Windows”
menu. However, there is no such menu in Kate. The shortcut F7, which the
manual mentions, also doesn’t work. Was this feature removed? If yes, why?

Best wishes,
Wolfgang

Games, Drivers & all

Hello Mr. Alan, Ms. Lindsay & everyone,**

* *

I was looking forward to receive your emails. Thank you for your guidance
:)). Today, I am going to ask you some more questions...I hope I will get
their answers.. (I'll also search for them on Internet).**

* *

To start with, I uninstalled Kubuntu 'application' from Windows and
installed it as an OS (side by side Windows). Here are some of my questions:
**

* *

*1. *Kubuntu has no game. So, I downloaded the *package*: kdegames 3.5.10
from http://games.kde.org & saved it in Windows . Then, opened KPackageKit >
Software Management.

pptp. problem accessing files from remote windows server

After a problem with a backslash in the username I was given, I now have been
able to create a tunnel using pptp on Kubuntu Intrepid. The question is, what
do I use to access the files on this remote windows server I'm connected to.

I fired up XP to see how pptp worked, and there, all I have to do to access
the files is enter \\xxxx-xx\ftp_folder (x's replace name) into the run
command, and the files are opened in windows explorer. It also works by
entering the same as above in Opera on XP.

Opera doesn't want to know on Intrepid, and says the file is unavailable.

Dbus error in Kontact

I tend to use much the Kontact application.But when updating KDE from 4.3 to
4.4 I had a little mistake to open it from the konsole where he says there is
an error in connection with Dbus.I say this explicitly:

(2125)/: Communication problem with "kontact" , it
probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not receive
a reply.

PowerTOP: audio device active 100% of the time, how to file bug?

Please see this – https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/521424 – bug
report. To make a long story short: PowerTOP notices that one or two
audio devices are active 100% of the time, thus causing unnecessary
power consumption. However, this only occurred on Kubuntu 9.10, Ubuntu
9.10 wasn’t affected and had a significantly lower power consumption.
The problem is still present on Kubuntu Lucid, both with the standard
kernel and the 2.6.33 kernel.

keyboard not functioning

The strangest thing happened to me. I was typing an e-mail and all of a sudden
there is no reaction from the keyboard. Nothing works. Not typing, no
controls, nada. I know the problem isn't with the keyboard itself as I can
type and operate the keyboard before entering Kubuntu. I can type my password,
enter bios etc. Once the computer gets to my desktop after typing my password,
all keyboard action stops. I can do anything with the mouse, open programs
etc. but nothing with the keyboard.
Had my computer been a laptop, I know there are function keys to do all sorts
of things.

K3B and burning CDs

It's been quite awhile since I burned a CD. I keep getting errors
related to permissions to the drive. So, I googled and found a bunch of
messages pertaining to the problem, but I'm not seeing a real fix. I'm
running Jaunty which is up to date. thanx. Ric

20100228KU -- Taskbar & Network "Disaster"

Greetings --

Several list members have recently helped me in trying to get
multi-media to work, and I am MOST appreciative of the help. I simply
MUST have done something terribly wrong during an update process. The
result is that there is NO bottom panel OR task-bar any longer. As one
result of this, I can no longer establish ANY Internet connection, even
though the hardware is still in place as before.

Fwd: [Bug 529483] [NEW] Wrong parsing of Amarok ui-files by Rosetta scripts

The reason I think our l10n will always be broken one way or another:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: yurchor <<...> at gmail dot com>
Date: Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:57 PM
Subject: [Bug 529483] [NEW] Wrong parsing of Amarok ui-files by Rosetta scripts
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: amarok

Rosetta scripts screw up Amarok translation.

20100227KU -- Bottom-Panel Difficulty

Greetings --

As most of you know, I have been working very hard -- with a LOT of help
from Kubuntu-Users! -- to get multi-media working on my Jaunty system.
If I don't have it, I am very close to having it; THANKS to all.

Now, however, my bottom-panel has changed quite dramatically -- for the
worse. I used to have K-Launcher and several other items on the left
end and quite a few items (KMail, Volume-Control, Virtualbox-OSE,
Networking, etc.) in the system tray (at the right end of the panel).

Re: KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

Am Samstag, 27. Februar 2010 10:07:27 schrieb Reinhold Rumberger:

I’ve just found the /sbin/rfkill binary.

KNetworkManager often ignores wireless

Hello,

I used KNetworkManager quite successfully for some time. However since two
weeks or so, KNetworkManager often doesn’t allow me to connect to wireless
networks. The option for activating wireless networks is deactivated an
“greyed out”. Sometimes, things work again after five reboots or so, sometimes
not.

In syslog I found this:

NetworkManager: Wireless now disabled by radio killswitch
NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (12048480) ... get_connections.
NetworkManager: SCPlugin-Ifupdown: (12048480) ...

akonadi:Cannot get rid of 'Table 'mysql. servers' doesn't exist'

I tried everything at:

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi

including:

http://userbase.kde.org/Akonadi#Table_.27mysql._servers.27_doesn.27t_exist

but nothing works.

KDE widgets moving places in locked panels

Some time ago a KDE user (CCed) mentioned that his plasma widgets
would move around, even if the panels and desktop are locked. I
experienced this today for the first time. Can anyone else confirm
this happening? Thanks.

Re: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

It's not about eliminating the need to install/update via the internet, but reducing it. If that's not important to you, fine, but it is important today others.

Scott K

Fwd: Re: Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:41:46 -0500
From: Mackenzie Morgan <<...> at gmail dot com>
Reply-To: Kubuntu Developer Discussion
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Gotta say, I expected more breakage than I got on the 4.3->4.4 upgrade for the
KDEPIM transition to Akonadi. My contacts were no longer visible in
KAddressBook *BUT* they were not actually lost.

Re: Installing nvidia driver from cmd line -- no video

On 2/24/10, kubuntu-users-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

I've been having a little trouble with an old nvidia card. (e-GeForce
FX5500 -- Don't laugh it's what i could afford. I plugged in and it
worked but I still got occasional lagging and it didn't seem as if I
had hardware acceleration at all, especially Youtube videos paused and
stuttered as with the video on my motherboard. (ECS L7MM3)) So I tried
the above procedure in case there was a problem with the driver.

Re:Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

Well, seems to me that a great part of KDE works fine: Kde-Pim applications don't have many problems. Only Nepomuk is not really good: sometimes strigi (and soprano) gives problems and block the system. It's a rare case but, in effect, if we want to make 10.04 an LTS release it will be safer to disable Nepomuk and Strigi (obiously if the user wants, he can enable them).
The other parts of KDE are good, and I think there are no other problems. Kubuntu is ready for LTS.

Fwd: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

Forwarded from kubuntu-users

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:48:51 +0200
From: O. Sinclair
Reply-To: o.<...> at gmail dot com, Kubuntu user technical support

To: Kubuntu user technical support

Those who have been around long enough remember the discussion around
the last Long Term Support release.

Kubuntu 10.04 will be LTS but it is ready for that

Those who have been around long enough remember the discussion around
the last Long Term Support release. Ubuntu 8.04 is LTS whereas Kubuntu
8.04 is not, the difference being that it was deemed unsupportable to
have an LTS with KDE 3.5 as base when KDE 4 was "almost released".

Now we see the coming release of 10.04 going to be Kubuntu LTS. I assume
with KDE SC 4.4 as "base" and from what I see of those trying it out at
the moment there are some really major headaches with Akonadi, Nepomuk
and KDE-PIM.

So my query is: is it the right time to go LTS?

unneeded printer setup

Since the upgrade to kde4.4 on Karmic, a printer is now setup and an
icon put into the system tray. I do not have a printer connected nor
will there ever be one and I am loath to have redundancies such as
this. Is it possible to remove this. I looked in the kde settings but
there is nothing there for this, no printer setup and listed in those
settings.

nepal.

where to turn off screen/power saver function in kde 4.4 karmic.

Since the recent upgrade to KDE 4.4 on Karmic (9.10), a setting seems
to have changed somewhere that now activates a screen save/ power save
function that I cannot track down and disable. I did this once(several
times) before on kde 4.x. in the power save options and those settings
have not changed AFAICT. Anyone know where this new parameter/function
call or however it is activated is coming from and importantly how to
disable it?

nepal

After installation: cannot get into the system, because of password/ login problems.

Dear everybody

Tonight, I installed Kubuntu netbook remix at my Asus 1001HA. However,
I do not manage to access the system. The login/ password combination
I have in mind, does not work. The only part of the system I do manage
to reach is the recovery mode menu - e.g. the root prompt.

Thx. for replying.

Bas.

Fwd: testers needed for Alpha 3 candidates

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

Subject: testers needed for Alpha 3 candidates
Date: Wednesday 24 February 2010, 04:39:10 pm
From: Jonathan Riddell <<...> at ubuntu dot com>
To: kubuntu-<...> at lists dot ubuntu.com

Please test candidates for alpha 3

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/kubuntu/all

Jonathan

testers needed for Alpha 3 candidates

Please test candidates for alpha 3

http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/kubuntu/all

Jonathan

Installing nvidia driver from cmd line

A guy in work has tried to install 9.10 from the live CD.
The install went OK but he can't log in as his nvidia card is not supported by the nv driver. He
just gets dropped to a shell after X tries to start a few times.

What commands does he need to install the latest (or best) nvidia driver and enable it?

Nigel

Parital Printing - Update

Now this IS weird!

I can print from GIMP but only the top third of a page from Inkscape or Gwenview.

Any idea why they would stop working?

Stan

"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt

HP Photosmart 2575 partial printing

Hi everyone!

I have a Kubuntu 9.10 setup with an HP Photosmart 2575 all-in-one printer. I've been printing files from Open Office and PDFs without a problem.

Today, I tried to print a series of full-page (US Standard) 8.5"x11" photos.

First, I had some composite family photos that I assembled in Inkscape. Then I exported the Inkscape drawing to a PNG file. Finally, I just took one of my default JPG files and tried to print.

In every case, the printer got busy for a couple of minutes, then spit out the paper with only the top third of the image.

Karmic: occasional no sound at boot up

Occasionally when I turn my computer on, I will get a pop up appear saying
that it couldn't find any sound drivers.

Fwd: mcasadevall joined kubuntu-dev

Michael has been accepted into kubuntu-dev, see meeting at 22:30
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/02/16/%23kubuntu-devel.html

congratulations Michael

----- Forwarded message from Kubuntu Developers <<...> at launchpad dot net> -----

To: <...> at ubuntu dot com
From: Kubuntu Developers <<...> at launchpad dot net>
Subject: mcasadevall joined kubuntu-dev
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:52:52 -0000
Reply-To: Kubuntu Developers <<...> at launchpad dot net>
Sender: <...> at canonical dot com

Hello Jonathan Riddell,

Michael Casadevall (mcasadevall) has been added as a member of Kubuntu
Developers (kubuntu-dev) by Jonathan Rid

Need lib not in repository

Hi

I am setting up kubuntu in my new box.
I use an old program that needs the libstdc++.so.5 library, which is no longer
available in the kubuntu repository.

I tried a symbolic link to the existing libstdc++.so.6 library in my machine
ln -s libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.5
but it did not work

Any idea?

Best
javier

Knetworkmanager

Hi all,

I have some severe issues using the Knetworkmanager for connecting to wifi
networks.

1. In 50% of the cases it does not connect to any network at all (despite
correctly written password, if such is needed). It does not connect even in
free wifi locations!
2. In 40% of the cases it does connect but after 10 or more 'activate' click
on the widget.
3. In 10% of the cases it does not accept simple WPA/Personal password. What
happens is that it wants confirmation on and on and after 4-5 clicks just goes
straight to 'not connected mode'.

Any help please? Kubuntu 9.10, KDE 4.4
gk

Amarok. Problems with internet radio streams

This is on Kubuntu Intrepid with Amarok 1.4.10 (Using KDE 3.5.10).

I'm having problems with Amarok playing windows media streams from the BBC for
radio. I drag the link for a stream (radio 7 for example) into Amarok's add
stream, and it shows up as: http://bbc.co.uk/radio/listen/live/r7.asx

I ok that. Then a cookie alert, so I select the "all cookies from this domain"
option, then accept. Now Amarok says "populating playlist", and it loads up
32 tracks, which are for this bbc radio 7 stream.

Now the problem.

LZMA for dh7 builds

Salut!

I just uploaded a new version of pkg-kde-tools that got LZMA compression
enabled for dh7 builds [1]. It still obeys the same rules as compression
within all other build types (it seems we compress every package now)...
meaning it does not compress
1) if the build-architecture is armel
2) if the env var DEB_NO_LZMA is set to 1

If a package that uses

%:
dh --with kde $@

fails to build with some weird error related to LZMA and/or dpkg-
deb/dh_builddeb, or if one of the above exceptions does not work, please come
whine to me.

No mail from News server- kubuntu port 119

No mail received from newsserver for last 3 days, but able to receive by
direct mail. Is there any problem with gmane newserver? Both
Thunderbird3 and Opera mail agent unable to get through gmane newserver.

Sorry for the noise if problem is from my side.

Regards - Goh Lip

drkonqi + installdbgsymbols branch

just a quick heads up

https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/+junk/drkonqi-dbg

i have started writing in ruby, but just because my bash is not very good and
it's easier to mess around in ruby IMHO ;)

the final should either be sh/bash or cpp

also see
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase-runtime/+bug/514557

update-notifier-kde in lucid

Howdy!

I just noticed that lucid still includes the update-notifier-kde, but at the
same time features it's C++ based replacement kubuntu-notification-helper. So I
am wondering why we still need unk, did just no one bother to remove it yet,
or is there some real usecase that knh does not yet support?

On a related note: earlier today I uploaded a new packagekit version that
enables dist-upgrade and notification capabilities in lucid.

Wacom Tablet

Has anyone managed to set up a Wacom Tablet?

I got a new toy and sure would like to use it on my Linux box. I tried
following the instructions on the Source Forge pages but there's so much
information that I don't understand I get confused about what I need to do.

Re: Nepomuk and Akonadi

I've had problems with Akonadi, too but I've upgraded from KDE 4.3.2 or 4.3.3
to 4.4 beta and then rc...
I'm using system MySQL database.
That upgrade broke my Akonadi database so it couldn't be upgraded.
Then problems with Kontact/Kmail...
I had to drop all the tables in Akonadi database so it created new one and
then it worked but I had to start Akonadi manually in KDE 4.4rc. Upgrade to
KDE 4.4 final fixed my problem with Akonadi autostart. It starts now as it's
needed (for example Kontact start).

And about Nepomuk...

desktop effects

Hello,

I just installed Kubunutu 9.10 (up2date) running KDE 4.3.2.

plasma upgrade script

Plasma in 4.4 has the ability to include some plasmoids in the
systray. Our default config is now made with the new Plasma scripting
interface and adds battery, device notifier and message indicator to
the systray.

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-members/kubuntu-default-settings/ub...

For upgrades I think we should move these plasma widgets from the
panel into the systray.

Firefox installer crashing with ruby script error on 9.10/KDE 4.4

I have two desktops with Jaunty 9.10 all updates plus KDE SC 4.4 from
backports, one of them a clean install from yesterday. On both of them when
I run kubuntu-firefox-installer I get the following:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/KDE/korundum4.rb:597: [BUG] Segmentation fault
ruby 1.8.7 (2009-06-12 patchlevel 174) [i486-linux]

I can install firefox from apt easily enough myself but was curious if
anyone else had this problem and whether I should report it on launchpad.

Nepomuk and Akonadi

Still trying to make both work so to get back the addressbook and the calendar
...

So, I enabled Nepomuk (and Strigi) from the System setting. After reboot
though go the message:

"Nepomuk was not able to find the configured database backend 'redland'."

What is this? Is it normal or should be somehow fixed? Thanks.
gk

partitionning and formatting

is there a way to format and partition the drives and usb flash disks from Kubuntu??

Icons won't resize in panel

Hi

I just upgraded to KDE SC 4.4 on Kubuntu 9.10. Deleted the relevant *plasma*rc
files to get a clean desktop. I like to have a large panel at the bottom of the
desktop and a small one at the top. For some reason the icons in the large
panel won't resize as seen in the screenshot in this link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5437446508732963570

Any idea why?

More on DBusMenu integration for Kopete and KNetworkManager

Hi,

During last Kubuntu meeting, it was decided that a method should be
added to kdelibs so that applications could opt out of DBusMenu if it
was causing trouble, for example because of the use of custom widgets in
their tray menu.

We listed Kopete and KNetworkManager as the two problematic applications.

Well... my team was not enthusiastic at this idea, because they were
afraid it would make DBusMenu optional.

Automatic crash report generated by DrKonqi for Apport KDE.

test case :

under regular user in konsole type :

$ apport-bug akonaditray

(OK) apport window appears saying that akonaditray is not a known package
(OK) click on OK
(OK) the "collecting problem information" window is still there waiting for
CANCEL to be pressed

type CTRL-C on konsole
nothing happens
now click on CANCEL on "collecting problem informations"

==> crash

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apport/apport-kde", line 114, in on_buttons_clicked
def on_buttons_clicked(self, button):
KeyboardInterrupt
KCrash: Application '' crashing...
sock_file=/home/pasca

biggest resolution is 1024x768

I just bought a Tohiba laptop with i3 processor. I tried to install Karmic.
But laptop couldn't show anything when I booted Karmic CD.

Then I tried "safe graphic mode" and it worked. And I installed Karmic.

Now the biggest resolution is 1024x768 and it's inappropriate. My laptop is
16" widescreen. The resolution should be I think at least 1280x800.

Laptop has intel graphics card. How can I fix this problem?

Thanks.

Klich.

how do I get codecs for Kubuntu and install them?

I just installed Kubuntu and need codecs and steps to get the video's to work
thanks

problem installing java 6.0

hello,
I can't install "jdk 6u18 linux x64-rpm.bin" i tried to follow the instructions on the java site but the terminal doesn't allow my authentication using my user password

Kde desktop file

I would like to do a fresh install of Kubuntu, but want to reuse my home
directory. Which file do I have to remove to allow Kubuntu desktop preference
to show/install, not the ones from the former distro? Thank you very much.

Slow transfer rates with FTP and Fish on Intrepid and Hardy

I'm getting very slow transfer rates 10 - 50KB/s when transfering data using
Gftp on my local network.

After upgrade to KDE 4.4, I cannot open Kaddressbook

Although the upgrade to KDE 4.4 from 4.3.5 went smoothly on my test
machine, my production machine will not start Akonadi when I open
Kaddressbook. Kubuntu 9.10 with the Backports repo
enabled.

clean /tmp after reboot

Hello,

did someone now, how to clean the /tmp directory after a reboot? The
"TMPTIME=0" in /ets/default/rcS is set but the /tmp is never empty.

Anny Idea? I think only the files with me as owner will not be deletet.

Greetings
Max

How to get useful bug fixes for KDE 4.4. without automatically upgrading to 4.5?

Hello everybody

At my main desktop 'production' partition I work with Kubuntu Karmic.
In December 2009, I added via "Adept" this backport to the list of
'software resources' from which to take automatic updates:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu
I did so at that moment with a view to upgrading to KDE 4.3, which was
a stable version with several useful bug fixes and good new features.
My experience with KDE 4.3.

Setting resolution on Kubuntu 9.10

Just installed Kubuntu 9.10 on my PC and having a problem setting my screen
resolution to 1024X768.
Settings> System Settings> Display does not show 1024X768

Then I search for the xorg.conf in my system but it was not there and I
created a new one by executing the configure command. It generated the
xorg.conf.new in \root.
Then I have added a line with the resolution 1024X768 with refresh rate 70.
Then I renamed and moved the file to \etc\X11. After that it started showing
the 1024X768 in the display settings.

libkdepim4 depends on kmail!

KDE File Chooser for all GTK apps

KDE File Chooser for all GTK apps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/281834

The above-mentioned but was recently marked WONTFIX foir the following reason:
"GTK+ should provide sensible desktop integration, not the desktop
toolkit integration."

If anybody can provide counter-arguments, please do so politely on the
bug report itself. Don't forget to respect the developer and his
limited time, and don't troll. Just please bring counter-arguments to
help convince him. Be nice!

MOTO application

Hi everyone,

I am not sure about the current status of the MOTU team, but I planned to join
it for years. I updated my application and I would like to send it in now.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChristianMangold/MOTUDeveloperApplication

If you got in touch with me in the past, it would be great, if you could write
an endorsement.

Regards Christian

Opening Nautilus replaces the desktop with the Gnome desktop.

Due to a long-standing bug in Dolphin / Konqueror I have been using
Nautilus as my file manager lately. However, when I open Nautilus my
desktop goes from Plasma to Gnome. The Plasma panel remains, however,
and the Gnome panels don't come up. How can I prevent my desktop from
switching to Gnome?

/etc/rc.local does not run at boot

How can I force /etc/init.d to run /etc/rc.local when my 8.04 LTS
machine boots?

The only way /etc/rc.local runs is if I _manually_ run it as root with
/etc/rc.local.

I think it may be something in /etc/init.d/rc.local which is unchanged
from the installation of 8.04 LTS.

ls -l /etc/init.d/rc.local
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 522 2009-01-23 09:01 /etc/init.d/rc.local

#! /bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS
.

Can I revent KDE 4.4?

I upgraded to KDE 4.4 from the PPA and I'm finding a couple of applications I use regularly are not compatible (kdenlive being the most important). Does anybody know of a way to revert back to KDE 4.3.5 *safely*? I know, I shouldn't use PPAs on a 'production' system, so t's my own fault.. :)

Mark

mp3splt-gtk and Kubuntu 9.10

I've got some audio files that I want to split without degrading the quality
and came across mp3splt-gtk.

I can install and run it fine on UNR 9.10, but whatever I try to do with
Kubuntu 9.10, it complains that it can't play the files - mp3 and ogg.

Any suggestions?

Latest updates want to remove half my system!

Just got a notification about some new updates, two days after I upgraded to KDE 4.4 from the ppa:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade...

Re:problem with the upgrade of python-qt4 of this morning ?

Ciao Massimo,
prova ad aprire konsole e digitare "sudo aptitude"
con le freccette spostati sulla voce degli aggiornamenti e premi il tasto +. poi premi g e vedi se chiede ancora la rimozione di quei pacchetti: se si la versione di tali pacchetti dovrebbe essere > 4.4 altrimenti è un bug.

problem with the upgrade of python-qt4 of this morning ?

good morning kubuntu developers,
i'm an italian user of kubuntu.

i have installed kubuntu karmic and i have upgraded kde 4.3 to kde 4.4 with
kubuntu-backport-ppa two days ago.

This morning i have tried to upgrade kubuntu because i see the new package
python-qt4, but:

@laptop:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for simone:
Lettura elenco dei pacchetti... Fatto
Generazione albero delle dipendenze
Lettura informazioni sullo stato... Fatto
Calcolo dell'aggiornamento...

2 documents side by side

I see in windows 7 that two documents can be "clicked" into position
side by side so that one can work on both documents at the same time.
One drags the one document to the right side of the screen and it
"clicks" into place. One then drags the second document to the left side
(it "clicks" into place) and both documents are then readable
simultaneously. I read that this is also possible in Kubuntu. Is this
so? If so could somebody write a "blow by blow" description an how to
enable this.
TIA
Errol

Kaddressbook: No writable resource was found

When I add an 'Address Book on IMAP Server via KMail Resource Settings',
and I try to add an address, the following error occurs:

No writable resource was found, saving will not be possible. Reconfigure
KMail first

This is KDE 4.4. Any idea what is meant by 'reconfiguring KMail'?

koffice and kformula won't install

I elected to install koffice, to see if it's spreadsheet was less
buggier than Open Office's. For some ungodly reason koffice needs
kformula, which wants to de-install half my system. Who dat?? Ric

Open Office upgrade??

I'm having a couple of problems with OpenOffice. I install just what is
available from the repos. I had my share of grief, when I used Fedora,
with too new beta software so I'm a tad gun shy to install packages not
"official". Yet, when I try to enter a bug report, the site advises me
to upgrade before it'll accept my bug report. I have Open Office
3.01 installed (1:3.01-9) and am running Jaunty.

Am I missing something here?? Ric

why is it so hard to install Kbbuntu 9.1?? help please

I have tried many ways to install Kubuntu but i failed .

help on Java execution

Hi There,

I just need some help in compiling or running Java program on kubuntu. I tried: javac filename.java, didnot work. Do I need to install separately JDK from Kubuntu 9 CD? Thanks for your help.

Sincerely,

Aklilu

No desk top computer?

We have lived in a fairly small house for over 7 years now. It was quite
big enough for us, but we now seem to have acquired three grandchildren.
I use one of the bedrooms as a study where I have my desktop computer.
With all the bits and pieces it takes up quite a lot of room so there is
a bit of a palaver when we have visitors. Hints have been dropped!!

So I am wondering about replacing the desktop with a (good sized) laptop
computer. This leads me on to wonder if any list members do not use a
desk top at all, and rely on a laptop only. Anyone?

No indicator message in Message Indicator

Hi,

I have been working a bit on the Message Indicator (MI) Plasma applet
lately.

I changed its behavior a bit: the applet is no longer disabled when no
MI-enabled application is running. Instead, clicking on it show a
sliding message explaining what it is. Right now the message looks like
this:

http://imagebin.ca/view/X3oUTG5J.html

What do you think about it? (please point out any typo!)

What I dislike is that it links to the Kubuntu wiki.

missing config.

along the top of kmail was a selection for status, which is still
there and alongside this was a selection for how to display the
message list. I don't think I mislaid it! ;)

So how do we now select how we want the message list to look, e.g. one
to a line.

nepal.

upgrade to kde sc 4.4 dependency broken

I'm on Kubuntu Karmic 64bit. I've already upgrade to the kde 4.4 earlier
today. then I was trying to run a dist-upgrade, I got this error.

do you guys have this problem?

root at kwan-laptop:/home/yunkwan# proxychains aptitude dist-upgrade
ProxyChains-3.1 (http://proxychains.sf.net)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states...

Akonadi Server

The Options and settings for this are now missing from the System
Settings / Advanced Selections. Has it moved/ been removed, is
available via the command line? anyone please?

nepal.

Lost Audio since 4.4 upgrade

Hi List,

Apart from other problems some of which I have fixed following the
upgrade last night to kde4.4, I have now lost sound output. No sound
from any audio player and no sound with YouTube either. I am on 64bit
Karmic (9.10) with all updates.

Following the update I had similar problems to those already
documented with loss of the plasma desktop or workspace or .... This I
fixed by running the recover option from the grub menu using dpkg. This
worked and returned my desktop access.

For sound, my settings were using the Xine backend and that remains
so, but without any sound now.

Fwd: Launchpad svn import of kdebase should be fixed soon

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Michael Hudson
Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: Howto correct issues with the kdebase import?
To: Corey O'Connor <<...> at gmail dot com>

As I understand things it's a bug that should be fixed the next time we
roll out Launchpad -- in about a fortnight.

Cheers,
mwh

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