gmane.linux.gentoo.desktop

GNOME not starting as expected.

Ian Harwood — 2012-05-09T16:47:13


HI,

 

I am not entrirely sure how this works but I am having an issue with starting GNOME this is the error I get instead of it starting up:

 

xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.serverauth.3624 does not exist
xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.Xauthority does not exist
xauth: file /home/neewbeebian/.Xauthority does not exist

 

Has anyone else come across this issue before?

 

Many Thanks,

 

Ian

May 2012 KDE team meeting

Andreas K. Huettel — 2012-05-08T16:32:46

Dear all, 

the KDE team meeting is usually on the 3rd thursday of the 
month - which means we'll have a KDE team meeting next week, 

Thursday 17 May 2012
19:00 UTC
on #gentoo-meetings

The agenda will be collected here:
http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/maintainers/meetings/meeting-2012-05;hb=HEAD

See you there! Cheers!

Andreas

[kde-sunset] kdelib-3.5.10-r10 failed due to missing .c include

Xray7224 — 2012-04-30T14:43:37

Hello,

On one of the machines I was installing kde 3.5.10 from the kde-sunset
overlay i noticed a fault during the compilation of the kdelib. After a
small amount of drilling down into this it seemed the cups-util.c file is
missing the standard library header (#include <stdio.h>). The forum post is
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6956844.html?sid=1ddd91034c9b7768b3fbc52ae92bff96I
believe this is a bug which needs changing upstream?

Thanks,
Jessica.

Reggia: Gnome 3 instant messaging

- - — 2012-03-23T08:40:50

skype-open-source.blogspot.com/
Il giorno 21/mar/2012 22:52, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko< at >gmail.com> ha
scritto:

hamster shell extension

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T22:52:32

and while I am at it ... ;-)

Maybe some of you have read my posting on the gentoo-users ml ...


I simply quote it here, maybe one of you uses that extension already or
knows something related.

--->


Thanks, greets, Stefan

Gnome 3 instant messaging

Stefan G. Weichinger — 2012-03-21T20:36:27

I never used Instant Messaging so far, but now with gnome3 I see the
screenshots of notifications within gnome shell and the somehow
integrated chatting.

But I have no idea how to get there on my desktop.

I have the full gnome ebuild installed, got some gmail and icq account
within pidgin or empathy but somehow I don't get it.

Feels stupid ;-)

Could someone get me started on this?
I googled quite a while already but didn't get very far ...

Maybe I am missing something somewhere, I had gnome-light before and
upgraded to full gnome 3 a few weeks before.

Thanks for any pointers, Stefan

Packaging Trinity--looking for help

E. Liddell — 2012-03-19T16:26:52

The short version:  we're looking for someone with knowledge of
autotools, ebuilds, and, ideally, the eclasses from kde-sunset 
(which is why I'm posting this here) who's willing to contribute a 
bit of time to help us unravel a mysterious build failure.

The long version:  Trinity, the fork of KDE3, is currently in the
middle of converting from the old autotools-based KDE build system
to a more maintainable setup based on cmake.

I'm part of a small group of people (currently two-and-a-fraction)
trying to package Trinity for Gentoo and related distros (for a little
info on where we're at, see 
http://wiki.hasnoname.de/tde:trinity-overlay_on_funtoo_gentoo ).  
What we've found is that the packages that have already been 
converted to cmake can easily be wrapped with ebuilds, but some 
of the autotools-based packages break.

Upstream is not doing anything but the most vital fixes to the
autotools system—they're really short on manpower.  That means
creating a patch to handle the problem until the cmake conversion
is complete, which is likely to be at least a year in the future . . . and
this is where our group is running into problems, because we don't 
have anyone who understands Makefile syntax at the level needed
to grasp everything going on in the old build system.

The best we've managed to be able to do is get the builds to reach
the linker stage, where they break due to missing libraries which we
seem to be unable to reinject—append-libs and various methods of
manipulating LDFLAGS within the ebuilds seem to do nothing.  Our 
attempts to work on the build system itself have so far only resulted
in it failing earlier.

<small_voice>Help?</small_voice>

[kde-sunset] git live ebuilds

Serghei Amelian — 2012-03-19T15:04:51

Hello KDE3 users,

I started my own KDE3 fork, I added cmake support to it (partially yet) and I 
want to create live ebuilds for it. As I saw, these is no git support in kde3 
eclasses, only svn. Any volunteer to add git support to eclasses?

There is my current work: https://github.com/serghei

Gentoo KDE meeting, 22 March 2012

Theo Chatzimichos — 2012-03-19T09:28:23

Place: #gentoo-meetings
Date: 22 March 2011
Time: 2000 UTC
Topics: (WIP) http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kde.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/maintainers/meetings/meeting-2012-03

Gentoo Qt team meeting, 25 March 2011

Theo Chatzimichos — 2012-03-11T15:15:10

Place: #gentoo-meetings
Date: 25 March 2011
Time: 1300 UTC
Topics: https://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/pages/Meeting20120325

unsuscribe

HazeC5 — 2012-02-20T14:32:50

KDE SC 4.8 Release Party in Prague, CZ

Theo Chatzimichos — 2012-02-06T22:41:15

We’re happy to announce a KDE 4.8 Release Party in Prague,CZ!

The party will take place on Friday, 24th of February, 17:00, at the SUSE 
Linux building (Map [1], KDE Community Wiki [2]). There will be KDE and 
openSUSE swag available, KDE SC 4.8 live CDs, plus some short KDE related 
talks. We’re also gonna have some drinks, a KDE Cake, and lots of fun!

PS In case you are a KDE contributor and would like to give a short talk about 
it, feel free to send a mail to me or Michal (for czech mails, michal [at] 
hrusecky [dot] net)

PS2 Czech announcement and poster in Michal’s blog post [3]

[1] http://g.co/maps/fkfma
[2] http://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Release_Parties/4.8#Prague
[3] http://michal.hrusecky.net/2012/02/kde-4-8-release-party-v-praze/
[4] http://blogs.gentoo.org/tampakrap/kde-sc-4-8-release-party-in-prague-cz/

bug in kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10 (kde-sunset): build fails

Yuriy Davygora — 2012-02-04T09:04:11

   Hello,

   while emerging kde-meta:3.5 from kde-sunset, I have encountered the 
following problem with kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10:

plugin_katetabbarextension.h: In constructor 'MyPtrList::MyPtrList()':
plugin_katetabbarextension.h:56:54: error: cannot call constructor 
'MyPtrList::QPtrList' directly
plugin_katetabbarextension.h:56:54: error:   for a function-style cast, 
remove the redundant '::QPtrList'
plugin_katetabbarextension.h: At global scope:
plugin_katetabbarextension.h:309:13: warning: unused parameter 'number'
plugin_katetabbarextension.h:309:13: warning: unused parameter 'size'
make[3]: *** [plugin_katetabbarextension.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10/work/kate-plugins-3.5.10/kate/tabbarextension'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10/work/kate-plugins-3.5.10/kate'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10/work/kate-plugins-3.5.10'
make: *** [all] Error 2
emake failed

   The complete build log is in the attachment (build.log). Output of

   emerge --info =kde-base/kate-plugins-3.5.10

   is in info.log.

   Thanks in advance for any help!

   Best regards,
   Yuriy

qting-edge overlay moved to qt

Theo Chatzimichos — 2012-01-31T23:52:34

As discussed in the last Gentoo Qt meeting, we moved our overlay from 
gitorious to git.overlays.gentoo.org. This is going to be the final move, I 
promise :)

Along with that, we decided to change the overlay from qting-edge to just qt. 
Layman list is alreay updated, so if you still have the old one, you should 
remove it and add the new one: 

# layman -f 
# layman -d qting-edge 
# layman -a qt

Keep in mind that this overlay contains mostly live ebuilds of Qt (branches 
4.7 and master), so make sure that you really need it before blindly adding it 
(the same applies for the kde overlay). Enjoy!

kde-sunset: avahi-0.6.30-r1 Failed Running automake

Dominique Michel — 2012-01-19T10:28:48

When merging avahi-0.6.30-r1 from kde-sunset, I get the following error:

* Running automake --add-missing --copy
  --foreign ...                              [ !! ]

cat /var/tmp/portage/net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1/temp/automake.out
***** automake *****
***** PWD: /var/tmp/portage/net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1/work/avahi-0.6.30
***** automake --add-missing --copy --foreign

configure.ac:143: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
detected in body ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is
expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2591: _AC_COMPILE_IFELSE
is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2607:
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE is expanded from... ../../lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:606:
AS_IF is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2032:
AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... ../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:2053:
AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... configure.ac:143: the top level
configure.ac:300: warning: AC_LANG_CONFTEST: no AC_LANG_SOURCE call
detected in body ../../lib/autoconf/lang.m4:194: AC_LANG_CONFTEST is
expanded from... configure.ac:300: the top level
service-type-database/Makefile.am:21: `pkglibdir' is not a legitimate
directory for `DATA'

# emerge -pqv =net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1
[ebuild     UD] net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1 [0.6.30-r3] USE="autoipd dbus
gdbm gtk gtk3 introspection ipv6 mdnsresponder-compat python qt3%*
-bookmarks -doc -howl-compat -mono -qt4 -test -utils"

It is on an ~amd64 system. Output of emerge --info
=net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1
http://pastebin.com/mzwZASrb

Ciao,
Dominique

Gentoo KDE team meeting: Mon 16 Jan, 20:00 UTC

Johannes Huber — 2012-01-13T20:50:51

Hello Gentoo folks,

the Gentoo KDE team will have a public meeting on Monday, 16 Jan
2012, 20:00 UTC [1]. The meeting will happen as usual in #gentoo-meetings
on freenode.

The proposed agenda[2] is already published. 

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/utctolocal.html?time=2000
[2] http://tinyurl.com/6v9v5jv

Greetings

Qt team meeting 2012-01-26

Davide Pesavento — 2012-01-13T15:56:45

Hello,

the Gentoo Qt team will have a public meeting on Thursday, 26 Jan
2012, 1900 UTC [1], at the usual place (Freenode, #gentoo-meetings
channel).

All Qt team members are expected to be present or notify their
absence. The agenda items are being collected at [2].

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/utctolocal.html?time=1900
[2] https://gitorious.org/gentoo-qt/pages/Meeting20120126

Thanks,
Davide Pesavento (pesa)

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phonon

Dominique Michel — 2011-11-19T13:35:18

I am using fvwm with fvwm-crystal. I use a few kde apps like kate or
kaffeine. I am also running jack all the time as sound server.

The only one program I get trouble with this setup is kaffeine. When
the sound is working fine with the old kaffeine version for kde3, it
doesn't work at all with kaffeine for kde4. The problem seam to come
from kaffeine and phonon. 

On one hand, the new kaffeine use the outdated and non maintained xine
backend for phonon.
On the other hand, I can launch kde, setup phonon to use jack, and
kaffeine work fine with it. But back into fvwm, I still get no sound
with kaffeine as kde is not running anymore.

I try to remove phonon-kde and install qt-phonon. The removing of
phonon-kde was fine and kdebase-meta was removed at the same time. But I
am still not able to install qt-phonon as it is a blocking:
kaffeine need kde-libs, which block qt-phonon.

In conclusion, phonon is worst for me than arts was. What a mess!?! ...
I don't want to flame, this is just my POV.

Do you know if the kde guys (the upstream for phonon for what I know) do
have any plan to solve this mess?

Do you know any solution that will let me to have sound from kaffeine
into jack when not running kde?

Dominique

KDE Overlay and failed downloads

Graham Murray — 2011-11-18T18:57:43

It seems that almost every time a new KDE version is keyworded ~arch in
the KDE overlay[1] that none (or at most 1 or 2) of the tarballs can be
fetched. The tarballs must exist otherwise the maintainers would not be
able to generate the manifests. 

[1] Today it is version 4.7.80

sunset overlay: net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1 fail to compile with USE=gtk or gtk3

Dominique Michel — 2011-10-30T12:22:25

I am blocked at the middle of a world update.
This is due to avahi-0.6.30-r1 from kde-sunset that fail to compile
with USE gtk or gtk3. The ebuild from portage is working fine, but it
doesn't provide a qt3 USE flag.

I done a bug report at the wrong place, but you can find it here with
the usual inFormations: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388951

I try to disable the avahi or the bindist USE flag for kde-base/kdelibs
in /etc/portage/package.use, but I still get a block from emerge.

[blocks B      ] net-dns/avahi ("net-dns/avahi" is blocking
net-misc/mDNSResponder-212.1-r1) [blocks B      ]
net-misc/mDNSResponder ("net-misc/mDNSResponder" is blocking
net-dns/avahi-0.6.30-r1)

Ciao,
Dominique