Assorted KDE annoyances driving me nuts

iandoug

Hi

After the past week's fun and games ( https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1075938.html ) which led to me rebuilding my desktop and having to re-add all email user acccounts (and added some dead accounts which led to my mail server fail2banning me...),

some things currently driving me nuts, which were not a problem in the past...

1. Baloo. Have disabled file indexing in settings->search, but the (*&(&(& thing insists on starting when I start KDE, and before you know it it has chewed up 6GB of memory (of 16), and UI starts experiencing sudden 'pauses' where nothing happens for seconds at a time, at which point I kill the file-extractor process to restore normality, Is there a better solution?

2. Kmail/Akonadi (PBUH lest I curse):

a. filters on incoming mail not working but work with ctrl-J. This used to be an issue randomly in the past, but always came right if you restarted KDE. This workaround no longer works. Ideas?

b. The old 'message won't delete' issue, which I normally fixed by clearing the cache in akonadiconsole. However now it says the folder is empty (the messages are still on disk, but that brain-dead akonadi thinks they are not.) How do I force a rescan? In previous versions, clearing the cache forced the rescan, but they went and broke something there...

(at times like these I wish I had time to learn C/C++ just so I can go fix these annoyances... )

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Any ideas gratefully received :-)

Thanks, Ian
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asturm

iandoug

iandoug · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:53 pm Post subject:

After emerge finished I exited KDE and restarted in, and yes, baloo file extractor is still running and taking 12% CPU and ever-increasing memory...

Maybe it requires reboot?....

Will try tomorrow.
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asturm · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 9:54 pm Post subject:

Remove it? You've rebuilt with USE=-semantic-desktop, now run --depclean.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

iandoug · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:05 pm Post subject:

asturm · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:08 pm Post subject:

Your kernel sources are irrelevant to runtime.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

iandoug · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:13 pm Post subject:

asturm · Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:18 pm Post subject:

Well, you install the kernel manually, you are responsible for keeping its sources if you need them.
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backend.cpp:92:2: warning: #warning TODO - this error message is about as useful as a cooling unit in the arctic

miket · Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2018 4:05 pm Post subject:

Here's my thing about emerge --depclean:

I never run that the first time without the -p switch. This shows you the packages it would delete but leaves everything alone. After being sure of what I want to keep, I add those items to the exclude list and then let --depclean run. For example,

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 13493

You can reduce time spent a bit by using --ask instead of --pretend, if you expect that it will do the right thing. Then, if your expectation is wrong and you do not want to continue, answer no. If it is right, you avoid rerunning the process without -p. Depending on the complexity of the dependencies that Portage checks, preventing a rerun of the dependency analysis can be a substantial time saver.