digikam broken- service types not found

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

I emerged world a week ago and it broke digikam as described in

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-418360.html

(It may be unrelated but I also lost all my png icons in kmenu and kicker). Today I emerged world again and it upgraded digikam to 0.7.4- I still don't see any thumbnails in digikam but now there's a different error:

HermanR · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:27 pm Post subject:

Did you also emerge kipi-plugins and digikamimageplugins?
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unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

HermanR · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject:

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

I was using 0.8.0 when I emerged world a week ago- I moved back to stable in an attempt to fix the problem. I just re-emerged 0.8.0 and yes, same errors plus a few more:

HermanR · Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:35 pm Post subject:

Maybe the problem is not with digikam, but somewhere else. What Kde version are you using? (I use the stable 3.4.3 on AMD64.) Did you try to re-emerge kdebase-kioslaves, since it seems to be a io-slave-problem?
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unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

Agreed, the problem is probably somewhere other than digikam- the fact that all my png icons disappeared from kmenu and kicker with the same emerge world is suspicious. Digikam is just the most obvious symptom, since it is completely broken.

I'm using kde 3.4.3. Currently I'm using everything stable except what is absolutely necessary (there were a few more a week ago but I removed them in an attempt to fix the problem):

Jvb · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2005 Posts: 14

I also had this problem. Digikam started ok but when I tried to add some files, it says:

unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

For the record, I just figured this out- apparently it's because I was using tcsh instead of bash. I chsh to bash and now digikam works. Hope this helps someone else.

funkmankey · Guru Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 304 Location: CH

hm I also use tcsh. but that just makes me wonder if it is something profile / environment related. tried switching to bash but it did not help. will try to track down if I have any extraneous / wrong env settings that could be doing this. (already made sure KDEDIRS is correct, etc.)

the weird thing is, even tho kbuildsycoca still spits out so many errors vs. mimetype, if I run it from the command line I can get kaffeine and ktorrent working properly again. but still not digikam. and I still have to re-run kbuildsycoca every time I close kde session and start a new one....
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unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

I also upgraded to KDE 3.5.2 this morning but that may be unrelated (I don't know what you're using). It was only several hours and reboots later that I chsh'ed to bash and that immediately fixed the problem.

I still have mimetype warnings when I run kbuildsycoca, mostly about realplay but those were there before.

The problem is reproducible- if I chsh back to tcsh, the png icons in kmenu and kicker disappear and when I run digikam I get the 100's of errors about io-slave and hung kio_file processes, one for every photo thumbnail.

funkmankey · Guru Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 304 Location: CH

so I finally got sick of not being able to use digikam, and chsh to bash as you suggested. and of course everything works normally now. grar!!!

I compared the env between bash and tcsh and every variable is exactly the same. so wtf can be causing this difference? something in the profile I'm sure, but what??!?

well anyway, I set konsole to run tcsh -l. so it's not so bad. and when I am on the console I can just type in "tcsh". whee.

I just hate the fact that none of us could find an explanation for this (and like many of you no doubt, I have really searched and searched).

I already use kubuntu for my g3 powerbook (too painful for gentoo) ... it's not bad, maybe I will switch my desktop to it ^_^
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unixj · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 126

Great! Yeah, I spent a long time trying to figure it out. I guess no one uses tcsh.

kamil1 · n00b Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 14

You people have done a good job identifying tcsh as being part of the problem. I don't think I would've guessed that.

Too bad none of you bothered to file a bug report (did you?). Anyway, I just filed one.