Kopete can't find libraries

[wbecker]

After upgrading to 3.5.7 it doesn't find my old accounts and all the configure windows say: The specified library x could not be found, where x is kopete_accountconfig, kopete_behaviorconfig, etc.

It may have had issues compilling: I got some messages at the end saying:

>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
/sbin/ldconfig: /lib/libattr.so.1 is not a symbolic link

But looking at the output of the compile it seems to have created all the right things:

eg:
>>> /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kcm_kopete_behaviorconfig.so
>>> /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kcm_kopete_behaviorconfig.la

both of which exist.

I might just try rebooting and see if that helps, but I am not sure it will!

Update: no help

[didymos]

Try running revdep-rebuild. I'd also look into that libattr thing. You might fix it by doing this:

[wbecker]

Did the revdep, and remade it. Didn't help, so I recompiled it again. Still broken, though no such warnings now!

Is there anything I can do? Is it worth unmerging it and merging it again?

[didymos]

Ok, wait a sec: what version did you upgrade from?
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[wbecker]

3.5.5 to 3.5.7

Just been keeping up with stable.

[didymos]

Well, so much for that idea. If you'd been using 3.5.2, I thought it might be a slotting thing. I don't suppose you have one of the old net-im/kopete versions installed, do you? Here, I'll answer for you:

You: No.

Me: So much for that idea.
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[wbecker]

Yeah, that can't kind of went out months ago.

Oh well. I'll give the -C a go.

[wbecker]

That didn't help either. Is anyone else having this problem or have I done something funny?

[didymos]

I've never heard of it, but that's true about a lot of things. I couldn't find anything on Bugzilla that seemed even remotely relevant. I haven't tried checking the KDE bug site though. Maybe something is lurking in /tmp/kde-<whatever> or /var/tmp/kdecache-<whatever>. The current config data could be corrupted as well, which you could test by moving/renaming the ~/.kde/share/apps/kopete directory.
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Thomas S. Howard

[wbecker]

couldn't find anything in those dirs and moving the .kde/~/kopete dir didn't help either.

It looks like theres a -r1 in portage, so I'll give that a go.

Otherwise I'll be on pidgin.

Thanks for your help!

[wbecker]

Actually, now that I look at it again, I see it says:

/usr/lib64/kde3/kcm_kopete_avdeviceconfig.so

which is true: it doesn't exist. Only the /usr/lib64/kde3/kcm_kopete_avdeviceconfig.la does.

This is the same with all the kopete libraries. What is going on?

[didymos]

What version of libtool are you using?
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[wbecker]

>libtool --version
ltmain.sh (GNU libtool) 1.5.23b (1.1220.2.437 2007/02/17 09:08:45)

[wbecker]

Something is broken!!

I managed to fix the problem by going:

cp /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kcm_kopete_* /usr/lib64/kde3/
cp /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/kopete_* /usr/lib64/kde3/

Why were they in that directory instead of the one kopete was looking for?

[didymos]

Some libs are installed to /usr/lib64/kde3/ and others are installed to /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3/, the distinction seeming to be that kde packages that aren't officially part of KDE go into the former, while official KDE stuff goes into the latter. So, as kopete is part of KDE, /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/kde3 was the right place for the files. I have no idea why kopete doesn't know where it's own files are installed though.
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[robin_elvin]

I have the same problem.

After my latest update to KDE 3.5.7 lots of libs now cannot be found. They are in:

/usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/

But not in:

/usr/lib/kde3/

Do you think this is worth raising a bug for? Seems to affect lots of packages though (Kopete can't config accounts, Konqueror cannot manage cookies etc.)

[bobber205]

I would say its definitely worth raising a bug for. It never hurts.
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[robin_elvin]

Bug raised!

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196097