KDE 4 in gentoo portage? - Part 2

kiss-o-matic · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 423 Location: Tokyo

Same results. Afterall, it just runs "startkde" for you. But, I'm thinking it might be a problem w/ the video card. I'm using the plain vanilla 'radeon' driver though. I'll mess with it when I'm on the clock. Too tired now.

kiss-o-matic · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 423 Location: Tokyo

Okay, I got my video card working. Now, on to better problems (KDE related this time).

Machine boots. KDM starts. I log in.
I see the KDE loading icons (in the widget in the middle of the screen).
Those disappear, and generally this is the point where the desktop is constructed. But, it just sits there w/ the default background and the mouse pointer.

Now, I have no clue what logs to look at to see what's happening. :/

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kiss-o-matic · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 423 Location: Tokyo

Cheers. There's quite a few errors. My guess is the ones below would probably not be good.
For the record, I did a kde-meta:4.2 install from the kde-testing overaly.

m27315 · Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:45 pm Post subject: kde-4.3

Anything on KDE-4.3 hitting portage? I downloaded the latest sets and keywords, but it appears that stuff is still masked...

Here's what I am trying:

Download and install latest KDE:

Manually unmask 4.3.0 stuff (will not be necessary in the near future, hopefully, once bug is resolved) - see Gentoo Bug 280312. Download and install attached package unmask:

count-corrupt · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 22

abester · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 93

That worked for me. The default portage set seems to be broken (at least as of now). I also had a lot of conflicts with qt-4.5.0, so I had to do

emerge -C `qlist -C -I x11-libs |grep qt`
emerge -C PyQt
emerge -C PyQt4

After that it would emerge (at least, until the first emerge failure @ 2 of 271... :roll:

)

reavertm · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:47 pm Post subject:

Krog · Guru Joined: 26 Jun 2007 Posts: 339 Location: Roma, Italy

after some emerge world my kde menu is now totally blank and there is no file associations if i click on an icon in dolphin or folderview
i've posted some info here: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-789503.html

please somebody can help me?
sorry for double posting

m27315 · Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:06 pm Post subject: update path broken?

In trying to my weekly update, I hit a blocker snag that I don't see how to resolve:

m27315 · Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: update path broken?

I am good now. ... I didn't see it at first, but it was an easy fix: :oops:

HyperQuantum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 88

I've removed my KDE 3.5.10 and installed KDE 4.2 as described in the KDE4 guide (in a chroot from an Ubuntu liveCD).
Then after a reboot the KDE4 login screen appeared, but I cannot login. It displays a primitive text window with an error message like:
"kstartupconfig4 does not exist or failed. The error code is 3. Check your install"

There appears to be something wrong with consolekit, but I'm not sure if that's really the cause. When I run "/etc/init.d/consolekit start",
the process seems to be started, but the init script thinks it has failed and displays "[!!]".

Anyway, it's kinda difficult trying to solve this problem without a graphical environment. Using lynx to search Google and looking through
the results is not very user-friendly. I've booted my Ubuntu CD to write this comment but I cannot use it to test my KDE installation, unfortunately.

HyperQuantum · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 88

OK, found the cause of my problem here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1167436.
I had copied my ~/.kde3.5 to ~/.kde4 from inside the chroot, as root user.
So the new directory was owned by root and not by me. The solution was to delete the kde4
directory and copy it again, but this time not from the chroot and as a regular user.

This reminds me that the KDE4 guide is a bit wrong about the copying. It says:

m.s.w · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:03 am Post subject:

I was using kde 4.2 which was installed according to previous version of http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml
Now, I try to update it to 4.3 and I think I messed my system completly. The thing is that after copying proper package.keywords file and package.unmask file I had blocks concerning some packages of qt-* being not compiled with qt3support. When I am adding qt3support use flag to those packages, I get blocks that some packages need qt-* being build without qt3support use flag.
So I stuck. I don't know what to do now. I have no KDE at all becouse even going back to kde-4.2 is not possible due described above error.
Are there any ways to fix this except just formating HDD and installing gentoo from scratch?
And honestly - why in Gentoo kde is so big pain in the ass while in other distributions it works out of the box?
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asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Nobody will be able to help you at that (little) amount of information given. For a start, did you install KDE by set oder meta package?

Getting KDE installed isn't a miracle, there are usually some blockers when moving on to a new major release (mostly because of renamed/removed/new packages), but I haven't needed a KDE guide since KDE-4.1.

If you messed things up, the easiest way to get things up and running again:
1. Remove all of KDE-4.2

m.s.w · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject:

genstorm,
Thank you for your post.
The thing is that I do not know what kind of information should I post. But starting from the beginning.
I was using kde-4.2 installed according to the guide. I do not remember how I installed it. But before going to upgrade to 4.3 I decided to clean my environment so I unmerged all kde-related packages, I unmerged packages listed by "equery depends kdelibs". I also removed all qt-related packages. Then I removed package.keyword.4.2 file and I copied package.keyword.4.3 file. I have copied proper package.unmask file.
Now, doing

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Look at this:

m.s.w · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject:

NONE of my installed applications use qt3support flag.
Putting qt3support flat into my make.conf file gives exactly the same problem as described above.
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SvenFischer · Veteran Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 1033 Location: Berlin

KDE 4.3.1 marked stable for amd64

How to remove all KDE 3.5.10 packages?
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nendzd · n00b Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 68

Ahh man, I can't think. I keep getting this when I try to emerge kde4 following the guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml#snapshots

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Why do you want to install a development snapshot anyway? You'll find x11-libs/qt-script-4.6.0_alpha_pre:4 inside the qting-edge overlay, but I wouldn't recommend it for stability...