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PostPosted: Thu Feb 04, 2016 3:33 pm    Post subject: KDE Plasma 5: KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite' Reply with quote

Ever since I upgraded from KDE 4 to KDE Frameworks 5/Plasma 5/Applications 5 on my Compal NBLB2 laptop (~amd64) I'm experiencing a minor, albeit irritating, problem when I exit from KWrite. I don't have a problem with Kate or other applications; so far I have only experienced it with KWrite.

If I open a text file by double-clicking on it in a Dolphin window and later exit KWrite, a window with the title 'Sorry - Dolphin' then pops up with the following error message:

KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/kwrite'

If I launch KWrite from the Application Launcher's menu, the same thing happens (although the pop-up window's title is 'Sorry - Plasma' instead of 'Sorry - Dolphin').

However, if I launch KWrite from the command line in a Konsole window, the problem does not occur.

If I right-click on the KWrite icon in the Application Launcher's menu and perform the following steps then the pop-up window no longer appears when I exit KWrite:

1. Select 'Edit Application...'
2. Click on 'Application' tab
3. Click on 'Advanced Options'
4. Change 'D-Bus registration' from 'Multiple Instances' to 'Run Until Finished'

The problem looks similar to one reported for previous versions of KDE in KDE Bugtracking System Bug 75492 - KDEInit could not launch <program>, which was supposedly fixed in 2010.

My installation is hopefully up-to-date ('emerge -uvDN --with-bdeps=y world' and 'emerge --depclean' both ran to completion and reported no errors) and the latest versions in the main Portage tree are installed:

Code:
fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ eix -I plasma-meta
[I] kde-plasma/plasma-meta
     Available versions:  (5) (~)5.4.3 (~)5.5.2 (~)5.5.3 (~)5.5.4
       {bluetooth +display-manager gtk mediacenter networkmanager pulseaudio +sddm sdk +wallpapers}
     Installed versions:  5.5.4(5)(21:49:34 01/02/16)(bluetooth display-manager gtk networkmanager pulseaudio sddm wallpapers -mediacenter -sdk)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/workspaces/plasmadesktop/
     Description:         Merge this to pull in all Plasma 5 packages

fitzcarraldo@meshedgedx ~ $ eix -I kde-apps-meta
[I] kde-apps/kde-apps-meta
     Available versions:  (5) (~)15.08.3-r3
       {accessibility minimal nls pim sdk}
     Installed versions:  15.08.3-r3(5)(00:54:25 04/02/16)(accessibility nls -minimal -pim -sdk)
     Homepage:            https://www.kde.org/
     Description:         Meta package for the KDE Applications collection


Is anyone else experiencing this behaviour in KDE Plasma 5, or has anyone experienced it and found the solution?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is the description of problem: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1042858.html, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579546

In a few words, prelink affected dbus libraries and the following solves it:
Code:
# prelink -u /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.*
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 06, 2016 2:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

engraver wrote:
Here is the description of problem: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1042858.html, https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579546

In a few words, prelink affected dbus libraries and the following solves it:
Code:
# prelink -u /usr/lib64/libdbusmenu-qt.so.*

I am not using prelink:

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meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # eix prelink
* sec-policy/selinux-prelink
     Available versions:  2.20141203-r10 2.20151208-r1 2.20151208-r2 (~)2.20151208-r3 (~)2.20151208-r4 **9999
     Homepage:            https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:SELinux
     Description:         SELinux policy for prelink

* sys-devel/prelink
     Available versions:  20130503 (~)20130503-r1 (~)20151030 {doc selinux}
     Homepage:            https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/prelink-cross/ https://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink
     Description:         Modifies ELFs to avoid runtime symbol resolutions resulting in faster load times

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I'm currently using plasma-meta-5.7.0, and the problem still occurs.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just ran the upgrade from base on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Plasma_5_upgrade

I have plasma-meta-5.5.5

same issue as you, among several others.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 20, 2016 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you go through the Plasma-4-to-5 upgrade guide troubleshooting section already? Do you have a valid consolekit session, dbus in default runlevel?
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

genstorm wrote:
Did you go through the Plasma-4-to-5 upgrade guide troubleshooting section already? Do you have a valid consolekit session, dbus in default runlevel?

In my case, to answer your three questions: yes, yes and yes. As I mentioned in my first post, it only happens with KWrite.
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 21, 2016 11:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's really strange. New user, same problem?
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2016 4:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have the same problem.

I am trying to launch TexMaker from the K-Menu.

Code:
KDEInit could not launch 'ksystraycmd':
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd: (libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)


I can launch TexMaker from the Konsole though.

Same problem when trying top launch mpv from Dolphin by right-clicking a video file and chossing mpv

Code:
KDEInit could not launch 'ksystraycmd':
Could not open library 'libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd'.
Cannot load library libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd: (libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)


I have not found or tried a solution yet (I hesitate that prelining is a permanent solution). Searching .....
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 7:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

philip wrote:
I have not found or tried a solution yet (I hesitate that prelining is a permanent solution). Searching .....

Can help
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That helped, thank you!
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm wondering why it was enabled in the first place, it sure is not the default.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 1:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Getting back to the problem in the first post in this thread, I wonder if the problem is similar to KDE bug 354179, and especially Comment 7?

I don't have access to my Compal NBLB2 laptop running Plasma 5.7.3 at the moment, but look what happens after I use Plasma 5.6.5 (the current version in the Gentoo Stable Branch) on my Clevo W230SS laptop to change the D-Bus registration of KWrite:

I right-clicked on the KWrite icon in the Application Launcher menu and selected 'Edit Application...' > 'Application' > 'Advanced Options', and I changed the entry for 'D-Bus registration' from 'Multiple Instances' to 'None'. Then I wanted to check the contents of the .desktop file to see if the edit had been performed, and was surprised to find two desktop files for KWrite:

Code:
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ locate org.kde.kwrite.desktop
/home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop


So I checked the contents of the two files:

Code:
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ grep -i dbus /home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.kwrite
X-DBUS-StartupType=none
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ grep -i dbus /usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
X-DBUS-StartupType=Multi


Notice that the deprecated file ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop was changed, rather than the Plasma 5 file /usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop

Now if I change the D-Bus registration via the Plasma 5 GUI back to 'Multiple Instances':

Code:
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ grep -i dbus ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.kwrite
X-DBUS-StartupType=multi


Code:
fitzcarraldo@clevow230ss ~ $ grep -i dbus /usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
X-DBUS-StartupType=Multi
X-DBUS-ServiceName=org.kde.kwrite

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 6:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please note that the link above contains a different solution.

Fitzcarraldo wrote:
Notice that the deprecated file ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop was changed, rather than the Plasma 5 file /usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop

Why do you think that's deprecated? Of course /usr content won't change through your user.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

genstorm wrote:
Please note that the link above contains a different solution.

I know. That's why I wrote "similar to".

genstorm wrote:
Why do you think that's deprecated?

Because of what David Faure wrote in Comment 7 to that bug report:

David Faure on 2015-12-28 23:07:34 UTC wrote:

Git commit c4ebd9b537d749e5533ecaff5631debab4827760 by David Faure.
Committed on 28/12/2015 at 23:07.
Pushed by dfaure into branch 'master'.

Save settings into ~/.config rather than deprecated ~/.local/share/apps/

M +1 -1 keditfiletype/mimetypedata.cpp

http://commits.kde.org/kde-cli-tools/c4ebd9b537d749e5533ecaff5631debab4827760

genstorm wrote:
Of course /usr content won't change through your user.

I know.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You see though, from my quote, where there was the misunderstanding? ;)
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 11:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do see.

I assume Plasma 5.6.5 should be using ~/.config/org.kde.kwrite.desktop instead of ~/.local/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop, so there appears to be something wrong with 5.6.5 (at least in Gentoo) regarding where it expects configuration files to be (see also [Work-around] Plasma 5.6.5 does not save File Associations for another manifestation of that). When I have the opportunity I will check what is happening in Plasma 5.7.3 on my laptop running Gentoo Testing.
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 05, 2016 9:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, I have now been able to use my Compal NBLB2 laptop which has Gentoo Testing installed. I merged world to upgrade from Plasma 5.7.2 to 5.7.3 then did the following:

Code:
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # updatedb
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # locate .desktop | grep kwrite
/home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/RecentDocuments/kwrite.txt.desktop
/home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/kde4-kwrite.desktop
/usr/share/applications/org.kde.kwrite.desktop
meshedgedx fitzcarraldo # rm /home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/kde4-kwrite.desktop

Then I launched Dolphin and double-clicked on a text file but Plasma tried to launch Emacsclient. For some reason the upgrade to Plasma 5.7.3 had changed the file associations. I therefore used System Settings > Applications > File Associations to change the association back to KWrite and tried again...

...and the problem no longer occurs. I can now double-click on a text file in Dolphin and, when I exit from KWrite, no pop-up window appears any more.

I should have tried to launch KWrite from Dolphin before deleting /home/fitzcarraldo/.local/share/applications/kde4-kwrite.desktop, just to be sure what fixed the problem.

So, that is one less Plasma 5 hassle with which I have to contend. Next on my list is to find out why Plasma 5 will not save the settings I make using widgets such as Networks (kde-plasma/plasma-nm) and Redshift Control, but presumably that has a different cause.
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PostPosted: Sun Dec 11, 2016 7:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had this problem as well. Just in case this will help someone else, this is what I had to remove.

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/home/<user>/.local/share/applications/kde4/kwrite.desktop


Once I did that, it stopped popping up that pesky message.

The way I found it is this. I used the locate command mentioned above. I then did a ls on each file and removed the oldest one, figuring the older one would be the likely one that was out of date.
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