Subject: Re: Some questions on KDE2
To: Ingolf Steinbach <ingolf.steinbach@jena-optronik.de>
From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/21/2001 19:57:35
Ingolf Steinbach wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> before I file PRs, I'd like to know if others have similar
> problems with KDE2 from pkgsrc:
>
> 1) kmail always terminates after receiving all mail via
> pop3. It does not issue an error message (at least I
> did not see any, even if I started kmail from a shell).
> After opening kmail again, the newly received mails
> (i.e. those received just before kmail terminated) seem
> to be completely inserted into the correct mail folders.
> Receiving mail from a local directory works well.
>
> 2) artsd does not work: Even if I specify /dev/audio explicitly,
> there is no sound. (The audio device is configured at
> boot time.)
>
> 3) Sometimes konqueror hangs and cannot be closed via the
> "Alt-F4" window menu item.
>
> 4) There are sometimes "drkonqi" processes running forever(?)
> and eating up CPU cycles en masse.
>
> 5) Has anyone tried to update the packages to 2.1.2/2.1.1?
> I have some difficulties: there is this lt_dlopen_flag
> introduced in KDE's ltdl library (to be found in kdebase/
> libltdl/ltdl.c) which is not (yet?) in the libtool package.
> Is this sort of a hack? Should lt_dlopen_flag added to
> the libtool package? (Note: I did not verify if there were
> changes regarding this flag to the libtool package during
> the last two or three weeks...)
I've not seen any of the problems you mention (some because I haven't
used that part of KDE) except for the last one... The change is not in
the current libtool cvs, but I intend to point it out to the libtool
guys.
Have you tried bugs.kde.org to see if any of your problems are
mentioned?
Nick