KDE 4 in gentoo portage?

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JanErik · Post by **JanErik** » Wed Feb 27, 2008 4:38 pm

Have the ebuilds been removed from the portage tree?

pmatos · Post by **pmatos** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:13 am

It seems there are some ebuilds for KDE 4 like kdebase but I can't find a kde4 meta ebuild to build the whole dep tree. How to install it all?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

mark_alec · Post by **mark_alec** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:33 am

pmatos wrote:It seems there are some ebuilds for KDE 4 like kdebase but I can't find a kde4 meta ebuild to build the whole dep tree. How to install it all?

See the Installing subsection of Gentoo KDE 4.0 Guide

grexxx · Post by **grexxx** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:46 am

EDIT: I think I found the problem. Since I also experienced system crashes with this I started looking into system stuff like kernel and filesystems. Turns out there is a bug with kde4 and reiser4 (which I use for / and /usr/portage). Getting into the filesystem forums I saw some people experiencing the very same issue running kde4 on reiser4. Since the problem isn't all gone yet (as far as I read) I'll just make / reiserfs again (though it looks like the problem could be solved with latest kernel/reiser4patches and cryptocompress plugin, however all of it is still in the "guru" area).
Hope this post saves s.o. hours of recompiling :)

EDIT2: Yes, that was indeed the problem.
2 Solutions:
1: make a reiserfs for / (or ext2/ext3 for that matter)
2: make a reiser4 the following way (needless to say use the latest patch for reiser4):

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mkfs.reiser4 -o create=ccreg40,compress=lzo1 /dev/xxx

That's it.

#### My post at first #####

Can someone help me with the folowing problem?
When I startx my desktop gets stuck with a black screen and visible mouse cursor and kde init screen blinking which dissapears after a while.

Running kde with exec startkde in xterm I get the following output:

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xset:  bad font path element (#421), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
cannot convert KDE_FULL_SESSION argument to STRING or COMPOUND_TEXT.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/kde/4.0/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/kde/4.0/bin/kded4
kded(7183): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message 
did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " 

kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/kde/4.0/bin/kcminit_startup

and it gets stuck with that last line.
Also when I quit X I get a process called kcminit that I cannot kill, I also can't reboot (I have to reset) and waiting several minutes my system crashes.

I should mention that I first installed kde4 slotted alond 3.5.8. Then when it didn't work I uninstalled every kde package (4.0.1 and 3.5.8) from my system which I checked with equery and also uninstalled every package that I though had something to do with kde (i.e. qt both versions). I also cleaned the world file and ran --depclean in the end. Ran emerge -uDN world just to make sure something else didn't stay put, --depclean again and revdep-rebuild in the end.

After that I ran emerge kdebase-meta which installed everything yielding kde-base/kdebase-meta-4.0.1 in the end.

I tried searching the net for the black screen problem, kded error and kcminit_startup mentioned above but didn't find useful info.

I put the output of xorg.conf, make.conf, tell me if there's anything else you need (package.keywords if from the guide).

nvidia drivers: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-100.14.19 (Also tried -169.12).
Kernel version: 2.6.23-r8

My xorg.conf:

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Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/local/"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/misc:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/terminus"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/unifont"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/artwiz"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "glx"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "ZAxismapping" "4 5"
    Option         "NoFlip" "True"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
    Option         "XkbRules" "xorg"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "si"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    DisplaySize     474    303
    HorizSync       30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 160.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "VideoCard0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "Leadtech"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6600 GT"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSectionSection "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "VideoCard0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "TwinView" "true"
    Option         "TwinViewOrientation" "clone"
    Option         "MetaModes" "1680x1050,1024x768 @ 1680x1050; 1024x768,800x600
"
    Option         "SecondMonitorHorizSync" "30-50"
    Option         "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" "60"
    Option         "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO"
    Option         "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
    Option         "UseEDIDFreqs" "true"
    Option         "Coolbits" "1"
    Option         "RenderAccel" "true"
    Option         "UseEvents" "false"
#    Option         "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Viewport    0 0
        Depth       24
        Modes      "1680x1050"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Extensions"
    Option         "Composite" "enable"
EndSection

EDIT:
my make.conf

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CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon64 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
FEATURES="sandbox parallel-fetch"
LINGUAS="en sl"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"

USE="bindist bzip2 cddb dts dvb glitz mpeg2 mysql nvidia pic screen shout skins
     type1 v4l wxwindows xscreensaver -cups -eds -encode -esd -evo -gnome
     -gstreamer -ipv6 -isdnlog -oss -arts qt4"

GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.inode.at/ http://mirror.bih.net.ba/gentoo/"
#GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://88.198.37.77/ http://mirror.qubenet.net/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.bih.net.ba/gentoo/"

avieth · Post by **avieth** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:35 pm

How is KDE 4.0.1? I've just decided to make the move and try it out. I'm a little nervous, no kdepim

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:20 pm

I write this from KDE 4.0.1, and I like it quite much.

It does have some bugs, as the devs warned us, but it feels very nice.

Now I'm anxious about KDE 4.0.2 (it should already be tagged and the release should be 2008-01-11:
- http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... ging_4.0.2 )

pmatos · Post by **pmatos** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:26 pm

ArneBab wrote:I write this from KDE 4.0.1, and I like it quite much.

It does have some bugs, as the devs warned us, but it feels very nice.

Now I'm anxious about KDE 4.0.2 (it should already be tagged and the release should be 2008-01-11:
- http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... ging_4.0.2 )

I guess you mean : "The release should be 2008-03-05"

avieth · Post by **avieth** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 7:38 pm

It's too premature for me, since most of the apps I love aren't ported to use the kde4 libraries yet. I just went back to 3.5.9.

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:16 am

pmatos wrote:
ArneBab wrote:I write this from KDE 4.0.1, and I like it quite much.

It does have some bugs, as the devs warned us, but it feels very nice.

Now I'm anxious about KDE 4.0.2 (it should already be tagged and the release should be 2008-01-11:
- http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title ... ging_4.0.2 )
I guess you mean : "The release should be 2008-03-05"

Um, yes, ... uh... braintypos are bad, really bad

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:18 am

avieth wrote:It's too premature for me, since most of the apps I love aren't ported to use the kde4 libraries yet. I just went back to 3.5.9.

I made it my working desktop, where I have none of the apps I waste time with

Sadly I had to replace Amarok till Amarok2 is ready. But since I had a past install of mpd, that didn't hurt too much (I can still listen to music... OK, it hurts, but KDE4 feels better to me, and that's worth it - for the time being

)

beso_1717 · Post by **beso_1717** » Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:19 pm

ArneBab wrote:
avieth wrote:It's too premature for me, since most of the apps I love aren't ported to use the kde4 libraries yet. I just went back to 3.5.9.
I made it my working desktop, where I have none of the apps I waste time with

Sadly I had to replace Amarok till Amarok2 is ready. But since I had a past install of mpd, that didn't hurt too much (I can still listen to music... OK, it hurts, but KDE4 feels better to me, and that's worth it - for the time being )

is really amarok2 so bad?! there are ebuilds for it around. there should be a live svn ebuild in the kde-experimental overlay. i'll have to go with it since i'll go with xine-lib 1.2 (amarok 1.4 doesn't work with it anymore) but if it's still so bad i could still mantain the old amarok 1.4 and remain with xine-lib 1.1.10. beware of the arts use flag that is automatically triggered to + in the 1.1.10 ebuilds (i really hate this since i don't use arts but pulseaudio) and it pisses me off to remove the arts tag everytime i need to recompile it.
ps. don't upgrade to the ffmpeg svn version of the last week since xine-lib, as many other multimedia packages, won't compile due to a header moving in the ffmpeg tree, that needs to trigger the rebuild of all the apps that link against it.

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 9:00 am

I really like the look of amarok2.0_pre4, but it doesn't really work well for me.

And the svn versions don't compile (they seem to require the monolithic ebuilds, while I installed the meta ebuilds, and the svn kdelibs don't compile for me - but to be frank, that could be, because I yet didn't want to invest the time to find out why - just now it said, it requires qt-4.4).

Does amarok2 need the svn kdelibs or could it build with 4.0.1/.2?

iluvatar0 · Post by **iluvatar0** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:06 pm

I just noticed that KDE 4.0.2 appeared on the project's ftp. It's not officially announced, though..

Lori · Post by **Lori** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:18 pm

iluvatar0 wrote:I just noticed that KDE 4.0.2 appeared on the project's ftp. It's not officially announced, though..

They need some time to propagate to mirrors, etc.

darkz · Post by **darkz** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:37 pm

Its officially Out, Now i just have to wait for the 4.0.2 ebuild.

iluvatar0 · Post by **iluvatar0** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 6:13 pm

And it finally fixes this nasty bug where some taskbar icons look like random memory... I'm looking forward to this one!

rek2 · Post by **rek2** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:58 pm

I am looking every hour to see if there is a ebuild I made kde4 my desktop on all my 8 computers/laptops.
works great but bugfixes are always welcome!

mephx · Post by **mephx** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:12 pm

looking forward to it. any updates on when on portage?

cheers,
x

beso_1717 · Post by **beso_1717** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:23 pm

mephx wrote:looking forward to it. any updates on when on portage?

cheers,
x

well, when it will be ready it will get into portage. i'll keep monitoring gentoo-portage to see when it gets into the tree.

as for amarok_2 you just need to replace the kdebase dependency in the ebuild with kdebase-meta. it should work if you have the meta package installed.

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:55 am

Panel resizing has been included! w00t!

Anyone know if they've fixed the un-alterable menu?

mephx · Post by **mephx** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:40 pm

epsilon72 wrote:Panel resizing has been included! w00t!
Anyone know if they've fixed the un-alterable menu?

that's the main reason why i did not "migrate" yet!!!

rek2 · Post by **rek2** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:50 pm

can't wait for the ebuilds!!! j/k good job to the kde developers and the gentoo developers in charge of the ebuilds..

Capitalism will die one day!

epsilon72 · Post by **epsilon72** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:56 am

When will the ebuilds be ready? I remember that 4.0.1 didn't take too long.

ArneBab · Post by **ArneBab** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:34 am

I just experienced that qt-4.4.0_beta1 isn't that stable (just spent about 2h waiting for my gentoo to migrate back - using only a plain xsession for working - and before that 1h to find out that qt-4.4.0-beta1 was the reason why kdm didn't start), so some problems might arise from that.

But I'd be glad for a status line, too.

Is there some (sub-)repository we can watch to get news?

Hum · Post by **Hum** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:24 am

yay! 4.0.2 ebuilds are propagating to the mirrors