KDE 3.0.3 Released

Monday, 19 August 2002 | Wbastian

The KDE Project is happy to announce the release of KDE 3.0.3, an update for KDE 3.0 with further bugfixes and an important security fix. Read more in the announcement and on the KDE 3.0.3 Info Page. Credits go to Dirk Mueller for his tireless work as release coordinator. Thank you Dirk.

Comments:

A good one! - Thorsten Schnebeck - 2002-08-19

"Anyone who uses Konqueror for secure transactions on the Internet is strongly urged to upgrade. Users of Internet Explorer, which suffers from the same problem but which does not yet have a fix available, are also encouraged to switch to KDE 3.0.3." :-))

Re: A good one! - Kent Nguyen - 2002-08-19

Re: A good one! - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

HELP, Anybody got this problem too ? when i lock the screen in KDE3.0.3, i cannot unlock with my password, i am getting error-message 'wrong password'!! but i didn't changed that. when i was logged in as user "root", i didn't have the problem! thanks

Re: A good one! - Nick Allen - 2002-08-19

Make sure you don't have caps lock on! If that's not the probnlem the Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then log in as root and kill the session.

Re: A good one! - Mononoke - 2002-08-20

MAN, are you fooling me ?! "Caps lock", ?!?! that was the first that i checked, of course! how on earth can that happen, updating from KDE3.0.2 => 3.0.3 and then, a simple lock-screen doesn't work anymore, and it still takes hours to find the reason, things like that will prevent people from updating and/or bug-reporting, believe me! "If that's not the probnlem the Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then log in as root and kill the session." -> and THEN ?? i already did that many times! 0f course who needs to shutdown a machine, why not just cut the power-line?! are there ANY OTHER hints about "lock-screen-password-doesn't-work-anymore-because-of-updating-to-KDE-3.0.3" ???? thanks a lot :(

Re: A good one! - anon - 2002-08-20

Check the permissions on the lock-screen program. I am not sure but I think that it may need to be suid root in order to check if the password is correct.

Re: A good one! - Jason Katz-Brown - 2002-08-20

Only passwords up to length 20 work. Cheers, Jason

Re: A good one! - Mononoke - 2002-08-20

*giggle*

Re: A good one! - kervel - 2002-08-21

you (or the packagers) compiled your new kde without PAM support or without shadow password support ? or the other way around ?

Re: A good one! - Mononoke - 2002-08-21

hm, don't know, but, it is working now.. scroll down on this page, there are more messages about this problem, though, it is already solved :) but it was a strange thing.. another strange thing is, that the position of the kicker-applets will not be saved.. they are messing around, everytime i start Kde ;_;

Re: A good one! - imp - 2005-03-26

I had this exact problem when compiling from source: it was PAM.

Re: A good one! - sunny - 2002-09-26

Cant unlock when u lock screen?????? Solution: run 'chown' with root for the kcheckpass utility.

Re: A good one! - sunny - 2002-09-26

Cant unlock when u lock screen?????? Solution: run 'chown' with root for the kcheckpass utility.

Broken link... - Joergen Ramskov - 2002-08-19

The link to the changelog in the announcement is broken.

Re: Broken link... - Evan "JabberWokky" E. - 2002-08-19

It's not a broken link so much as there is no "friendly reading" changelog yet (as of 1:05am PST). I just checked the CVS (which is where the website is located). -- Evan

Re: Broken link... - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

Not? http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_0_2to3_0_3.html

Re: Broken link... - Evan "JabberWokky" E. - 2002-08-19

Okay - they moved the directory for changelogs with this release. Apparantly I wasn't the only one expecting it in the old location. :) -- Evan

SuSE kdebase-3.0.3-i386.rpm missing - Martin Lützelberger - 2002-08-19

I just downloaded the SuSE binary packages for 3.0.3, unfortunately the kdebase3-3.0.3 package is missing?! What´s wrong with it? /martin

Re: SuSE kdebase-3.0.3-i386.rpm missing - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

Look again, perhaps your mirror was not yet fully synchronized.

No antialias in SuSE-7.3 packages - Roope - 2002-08-19

Yup, qt in this release (as well as were the case in 3.0.2) is compiled without antialias support... BUT if you have updated your X server to 4.2.0 which is safe to use with antialias enabled get the qt3 package from SuSE-8.0 directory - works like a charm :)

Re: No antialias in SuSE-7.3 packages - luxus - 2002-08-19

mmm yes it's really a pity suse doesn't provide an anti-alias enabled KDE... to express my thoughts cleary: IT SUCKS BIG TIME ! ! ! Tomorrow I'll grab qt and compile it myself :-(

Re: No antialias in SuSE-7.3 packages - mr. nuba - 2002-08-20

Hey, you will be really pissed someday, when you'll find out, that SuSE won't provide suse-7.3 packages for KDE4.3.1 AT ALL. You'd be better off with a real distro. good luck ps: be sure to hack both qt3.spec && build_script.sh

Re: No antialias in SuSE-7.3 packages - Jack Horner - 2002-08-20

You mean like FreeBSD? :-) RPM dependencies? What are those? *BSD users deal with a Ports system that sucks down the source resolving any dependencies, patches, compiles, and then installs. Ahhhhhhhhh.... I pity you poor linux folks. KDE was written for other OSes other than Linux in mind you know.

Re: No antialias in SuSE-7.3 packages - Vadim - 2002-08-21

How about Debian? It has a great package management system

Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diffs - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

Thanks to the developers which provided these two accompanying the release.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - plasmaboy - 2002-08-19

It looks like the kdebase package requires a kdelibs-3.0.3-10 which isn't there (couldn't get the included kdelibs-3.0.3-7 to install with the --nodeps or --force)

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - J. J. Ramsey - 2002-08-19

I could get kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7 to install, but not kdebase-3.0.3-0.7. My guess is that the RPMS from Red Hat got rushed out the door, and the RPM spec files have some assorted cut-and-paste errors. I posted a couple bugs to Red Hat's Bugzilla.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

RPMs from Red Hat? You must be joking.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - J. J. Ramsey - 2002-08-19

Output of "rpm -qpi kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7.i386.rpm": Name : kdelibs Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 3.0.3 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 0.7 Build Date: Tue 13 Aug 2002 08:37:42 AM EDT Install date: (not installed) Build Host: stripples.devel.redhat.com Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7.src.rpm Size : 25890393 License: LGPL Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> Summary : K Desktop Environment - Libraries Description : Libraries for the K Desktop Environment. KDE Libraries include: kdecore (KDE core library), kdeui (user interface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript (javascript), kab (addressbook), kimgio (image manipulation). Notice the "Vendor" and the "Build Host"--especially the "Build Host," since that isn't manually put into the RPM spec file.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

I'm amazed, stable/3.0.2/RedHat did contain unofficial packages.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Jarl E. Gjessing - 2002-08-20

3.0.3 does too, but in the contrib folder

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Sad Eagle - 2002-08-19

>terface), kfm (file manager), khtmlw (HTML widget), kio ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ > (Input/Output, networking), kspell (spelling checker), jscript ^^^^^^^ Did someone forget to update the description since KDE1.0? ;-)

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - loopkin - 2002-08-20

well, i grabbed those RPMs, and it'd been better for RedHat reputation not to post them at all: - invalid dependencies making them impossible to install - missing noarch packages (must take the ones from limbo) - not GPG signed - outdated descriptions of some packages and i'm sure that's not all. it looks really a lot like amateurish packaging.. i'm really disappointed that RedHat goes on treating KDE over the shoulder :-((( i think it can even damage the reputation of KDE, by making people thinking that KDE is crap, as RH's packaging is in fact as stake. :-((((

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Jarl E. Gjessing - 2002-08-20

Thanks for you're nice posting regarding my packages!! The packages I've made are UNOFICCIAL!!!!! They are not ment to be upgradable from RedHat's, thats what you'd see if you read the readme file.. You could instead explain the troubles to the packager (me) so I could work on fixing the "problems". The Unofficial packages have been installed on a fresh machine without KDE with no problems and by using the "script" and also there without any problem. The language packages was skipped because it is a lot of work I'm doing along everything else I work with. So if you are inhappy about it you are more than welcome to help by making some language packages. OR grab the ones from 3.0.2

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - loopkin - 2002-08-20

??? i'm not talking about the ones under contrib, but about the others, that were made by redhat according to the rpm -qpi, and where i do not see any README file anywhere theses ones, namely: http://download.uk.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.3/RedHat/ unless you have done them for 7.3 and limbo, with exactly the same rpm structure as for RH 7.3 and limbo, and without any README file anywhere, and without updating the changelog (or updating it saying you are bero: from kdelibs:"* Tue Aug 13 2002 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com> 3.0.3-1 - 3.0.3"), and where i see nowhere any mention that they are unofficial, and.... i don't think it's ur RPMs, are they ? for me, these RPMs i am pointing out are OFFICIAL RH Packages, that were done very badly.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Jarl E. Gjessing - 2002-08-20

Ok, but you were writing thi under the headline: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff, and since my packages are the only Available unofficial Red Hat here on kde.org that I know about, I got paranoid :-) I must try RedHats, so I can see what you mean.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - loopkin - 2002-08-20

no, i was answering to one guy saying "RPMs for RH, you must be joking"... it just happened to be in that thread ;-))

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - bc - 2002-08-22

I could not get kdebase to install error: failed dependencies: kdelibs >= 3.0.3-10 is needed by kdebase-3.0.3-0.7 there is no such version as far as i can see... i do not want to force it because i get lots of problems in the immediate future from forcing...

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - peeved - 2002-09-09

why did you put it in the stable release section ffs?!

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Tim - 2002-08-20

I installed the official packages with --nodep and it worked great. I really don't understand all the complaining, anyone who complains that a free product has bugs is a moron. I'm using redhat with kde 3.0.3 and it works great.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Colin - 2002-08-20

Yes forcing them does work but try and use apt afterwards and it wants to uninstall all of them to satisfy dependencies. There are several missing packages, the unofficial ones work fine if you use the script to remove / install but know I have a lot of recompiling to do, oh well can't win em all:-)

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - jlbartos - 2002-08-20

In the RedHat subdirectory, NOT the contrib one, the packages that seem to be the problem are arts, kdebase, and kdemultimedia. Rebuilding the arts srpm works fine, kdebase asks for kdelibs-3.0.3-1.0 instead of kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7 and kdemultimedia depends on arts. I am going to try rebuilding kdebase and see how it goes.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Chris Spencer - 2002-08-22

You have to be a complete idiot to support RedHat's bullshit antics. If you're not going to release a decent version of something, then don't release one at all. I spend a lot of time downloading KDE 3.0.3 - that's 96 files and 80mb - on DIAL UP, only to find that RedHat has yet again release a total piece of shit product. What the hell is the point of a bugfix release that carries even worse bugs than the original. And to make it even worse, I never even finished downloading KDE 3.0.2, because they yanked it off all the ftp servers have way through the night. So it looks like I'm either stuck with the old version of KDE 3.0 that's full of bugs and crashes like hell, or the new bugfix version that doesn't even install. It's to the point now that my Windows 2000 installation runs circles arround Linux RedHat, and that's just plain sad. To hell with all the crap dealing with RedHat, I'm switching to Mandrake next chance I get.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Artem - 2002-08-25

Amen. Mandrake will take away from RH share on kde merit alone.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - David Vennik - 2002-09-09

I would have to agree that it's a little remiss of them to put a set of files that don't work with each other, but then again you would also have to agree that you'd be mad to download them on a dialup system too - 80 meg - I'd be checking places like this to find out the caveats. I downloaded them on the network at my multimedia college and it only took about half an hour. I wasn't even considering doing it on the analogue modem at home. I'm installing them as I type with --force --nodeps fingers crossed they run okay... The main issue is that Redhat really shouldn't have included kde 3 with 7.3 - Debian's release policy should be more widely adopted. Besides all this, am I mistaken in saying that odd numbered revision numbers (7.3) with redhat means 'unstable' anyway. I had 7.2 earlier this year and it was rock solid. I'm waiting for 7.4 or whatever's coming next - and I think the hold-up has to do with the problems with kde 3.

RH version numbering - Vokimon - 2002-09-26

I think you have been confused the kernel version numbering with the redhat one. If 7.2 is more stable than, say 7.1 or whatever is only a random thing. Remember 7.0 crap, it was an even version.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - David Herbert - 2002-08-19

The set of updates for RH7.3 KDE 3.0.3 which I downloaded from the contrib site at http://download.at.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.0.3/contrib/RedHat/7.3/RPMS/ seem to have a different file structure from the 3.0.2 I had installed. For example, kdenetwork is there as a package in 3.0.3, but was not on my 3.0.3 system (kdenetwork-libs was). Similar problems occurred with kdemultimedia and others. I tried installing 3.0.3 as was but I had a lot of problems (kcontrol wouldn't start, all the windows lost their titlebars, Konqueror crashed, most of my KDE settings like backgrounds and fonts were lost). I decided to back off the changes and return to 3.0.2. What I would like to know is has there been a divergence at some point for RedHat packages, such that there are two (or more?) completely different and incompatible package lists? Perhaps I need to wait for someone to prepare a set of 3.0.3 rpms that match RedHat's structure that was shipped with 7.3?

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

> Perhaps I need to wait for someone to prepare a set of 3.0.3 rpms that match RedHat's structure that was shipped with 7.3? http://www.math.unl.edu/linux/redhat/apt/7.2/i386/RPMS.kde3/

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Colin - 2002-08-20

These are compatbale but are NOT compiled on RedHat's standard libraries and need a hell of a lot of other packages to satisfy the dependencies. Does anyone know of a set that do not need all these extra files as I only have 64k ISDN. Thanks Colin

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Jarl E. Gjessing - 2002-08-20

I made those packages from the 3.0.2 specs, no difference as such. I've tested the packages on several machines, no problems, so I'm confused about you're problems. Did you install all non KDE packages too?

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - Petr - 2002-08-20

I installed 3.0.3 packages from RedHat only to discover qt designer is not working. There are some troubles with plugins and also xpm bitmaps.

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - NS - 2002-08-30

This is caused by Qt3.0.5. It also happened in Mandrake 8.2 KDE 3.0.3. Qt3 is broken. http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-dev/2002/07/0153.html

Re: Available unofficial Red Hat packages and diff - David Herbert - 2002-08-20

Thanks for the reply. I had a unl.edu version of 3.0.2 which followed closely the 3.0.0 package structure that came with my RedHat 7.3 distribution. Their list for 3.0.3 (kindly posted by another reply to my original posting) is at: http://www.math.unl.edu/linux/redhat/apt/7.2/i386/RPMS.kde3/ Again, this follows the structure I had, and is different in some details to your list. When I tried installing the packages as per your list, I used *only* those on the list, with the exception of QT which I left at 3.0.3 (rather than go to 3.0.5) as the KDE 3.0.3 packages indicated that was ok. I had to use rpm --nodeps --force to install most of the libraries as there were a lot of file conflict errors thrown up by rpm. I believe I had a consistent set of KDE files at the end of this, though I didn't uninstall a few 3.0.2 packages which weren't upgraded by the 3.0.3 move. I can only think that in fact I had an incompatible set of files which caused the problems that made KDE unusable.

Debian packages incoming - Daniel Stone - 2002-08-19

Hi all, I've prepared Debian packages, and they'll be incoming within 24 hours. Cheers! :) d

Re: Debian packages incoming - Janne - 2002-08-19

Any idea when we will get official KDE3-packages in Debian?

Re: Debian packages incoming - JigTaylor - 2002-08-19

Don't they have to be updated, since it is a security-related update? They might even have to go into the next security-update of woody. Else Chris will have to make another (hopefully last) update of the kde-2.2.2-packages with the security-patch included...

Re: Debian packages incoming - Daniel Stone - 2002-08-20

I prepared a Debian Security Advisory for 2.2.2 which should be made for woody very soon, and I'll do a last 2.2.2 upload to sid.

Re: Debian packages incoming - chris - 2002-08-19

this is something i cannot believe :P it cant be true .. it was never ...

sources.list? - Per Wigren - 2002-08-21

What is the correct line to add to sources.list in Woody?

Re: Debian packages incoming - Jens Nordenbro - 2002-08-21

Will you make packages for a lot of programs to?? I tried a kde3 deb a while ago, but no programs where available so...

old themes dont work anymore?? - luca - 2002-08-19

is it possible, that themes have to be updated (since all my themes (keramik, dotNET)) don't work anymore ... I'm using mandrake 8.2 and I installed keramik and dotNET as RPM packages for mandrake 8.2 ...

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

KDE-styles only work with the Qt versions against which there were compiled.

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - David Johnson - 2002-08-19

This is not Trolltech's stated policy. Quite the opposite. They verbally guarantee backwards compatibility. But for some reason (justified or otherwise), they consciously broke their policy with 3.0.5. This is an exception which I hope is never repeated. If you upgrade from an earlier to a later version, you will need to rebuild KDE or get updated packages. Otherwise you are fine.

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Morty - 2002-08-19

I guess your old themes are compilled with qt 3.0.4, and your upgrade also included qt (3.0.5). Due to a change in the style handling in qt 3.0.5 you have to recompile alle style pluggins. Looks like you have to grab the SRPMS and do a rpm -rebuild, or wait for new RPMs:)

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - luca - 2002-08-19

thx morty! it works now (made a rpm --rebuild) ...

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Androgynous Howard - 2002-08-19

This has to stop!!! Every time there is a minor update of Qt or KDE, the binary compatibility with various stuff is broken so that you have to rebuild everything from source or download everything anew. This is by far the most annoying thing about KDE and Linux in general. I thought that binary compatibility was supposed to be guaranteed at least until KDE 4? Somebody should find a way to solve these binary compatibility issues once and for all. But I guess moving KDE and Qt to a VM-based platform such as .NET or java is impractical to say the least. regards, A.H.

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Ralex - 2002-08-19

While I generally have to agree with you - developpers definitely have to pay more attention to binary compatibility - I think the KDE guys do a pretty good job here. It's more a Qt-problem, looks like. Right now I'm running a pretty mixed up setup of KDE3.0.2 and KDE3.1-CVS-snapshots from different dates, and everything seems to be compatible.

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Morty - 2002-08-19

Hmmm, can't say I have noticed any brekage other than this for the whole 3 series of qt/KDE, and this one was not realy serious. No crashing, only missing styles. And since the breking is because there were some changes in the plugin-loading mechanism to handle plugins for binary incompatible Qt versions safely, and the only breakage you get are a few 3rd party styles it's a smal price to pay. The RPM for liquid are 240k and keramik 310k, a minor download compared to the rest of 3.0.3.

Re: old themes dont work anymore?? - Waldo Bastian - 2002-08-19

TrollTech had a very good reason to break old styles this time. A check has been added that guarantees that style-plugins are compiled with a compatible compiler/set of libraries. The bad thing is that old styles will no longer be loaded because they did not provide this information yet. The good thing is that your applications will no longer crash because you happened to have an old incompatible style-plugin lying around. The latter can happen when you have a style plugin installed in your home directory and then upgrade your distribution to one which uses a new incompatible compiler. Cheers, Waldo

dependencies?!? - kidcat - 2002-08-19

Heyas Haxors ;-P Is there a way to extract which dependencies this or that tarball can make use of/needs? Id like this info so i can build everything from sources on my newly build LFS CVS system.. id like KDE-3.0.3 to be both as prestine and as full blown as possible. If there is a feature i just *gotta* have it! So i can promote KDE to all my freinds who think Linux is no good for the desktop :) /kidcat

Re: dependencies?!? - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

Why don't you use http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/kde3.txt?

Re: dependencies?!? - kidcat - 2002-08-19

I dont see libvorbis, wine or any Java on that list. I would like to extract information about deps *myself* so im *certain* that i get all the stuff i want (all of it.. no more no less).... but i dont know how to get the sources to yield this info to me. But otherwise.. yap, that hint is good, and i used it for 3.0. But now i want to go ***all*** the way. /kidcat

Re: dependencies?!? - Matthew Kay - 2002-08-24

./configure --help was my first inclination unless they've started adding features without listing their configuration options?

RedHat noarch stuff missing?! - Fritz Elfert - 2002-08-19

I tried several mirrors. None of them has the noarch of RedHat subdir (usually the i18n stuff is in there) Does anybody know a mirror which already has them? -Fritz

Re: RedHat noarch stuff missing?! - Anonymous - 2002-08-19

Take the ones from limbo/noarch or from the 3.0.2 red hat packages.

I'll skip this one - protoman - 2002-08-19

Even with the SSL problem, I will wait until KDE 3.1 beta1 arrives.

Re: I'll skip this one - montz - 2002-08-19

I thought it would happen today? but i guess not.

Re: I'll skip this one - protoman - 2002-08-19

Yeah, I've heard day 12 that the beta was going to be delayed in a week, so 12+7 = 19, but there's nothing yet on the kde.org ftp :( I wish KDE team could be a more talking about those things, the only way to know about dealys usually is only searching on devel lists.

Re: I'll skip this one - me - 2002-08-19

agree

Re: I'll skip this one - montz - 2002-08-19

it was delayed for a week and on their release page 12 was changed to 19. I almoust installed 3.0.3 because i thought it was 3.1Beta1 - I just saw that something was released and started installing :)

Re: I'll skip this one - JC - 2002-08-20

A lots of packagers are on holidays. Beta1 is delayed but I don't know the new release date. We should have more info soon.

Re: I'll skip this one - montz - 2002-08-20

yay! I hope they have fun @ holidays.

Small suggestion. - Frank Rizzo - 2002-08-19

You know what would save a lot of time??? If a compressed file (tarred, zipped, whatevered) were available that would include all the kde 3.0.3 paraphenelia, including all the dependencies, except those that are installed by default on a given distro. This way I wouldn't have to download 30 separate files and then hunt for a zillion dependencies.

Re: Small suggestion. - Carbon - 2002-08-19

Um, for the most part, the non-KDE dependancies are available on any given distro. The issue is, most people (thankfully) don't install every package that comes with their distro, and so the install wont work until they install them. Perhaps better would be a tool which tells you if you're missing a dependancy... oh, wait, thats what autconf/configure does. Ah, nevermind.

Re: Small suggestion. - kidcat - 2002-08-20

yup.. it tells u what u *need*.. but KDE can also take advantage of alot more then it accually *needs*.. like wine in Konq. and so on. So yes, a tool or even better.. and updated page where *everything* is listed would be good. Ahh, now that i think of it, a generic script that can be used on all future versions of KDE would be nice.. as it apears that KDE will intergate tighter and tighter with the underlaying system. Btw.. does anyone know if there is a similar thing like this in kde-sdk? I know there is a script that can split the tarballs up into its individual components.. like extracting only Noatun from the multimedia-package, so a dep-script might not be out of order either. /kidcat NB.: a tarball with all the deps was used in the old days. It was called kde-support.. and i miss it badly too.. but putting all the stuff that KDE needs/can use into one tarball would be one huge mofo to download.

Keramik - anonymous - 2002-08-19

Is it possible to grab keramik from cvs and compile against 3.03?

Re: Keramik - markus - 2002-08-20

it's no problem, you can get it from apps.kde.com. it's very easy

Re: Keramik - markus - 2002-08-20

it's no problem, you can get it from apps.kde.com. it's very easy

Re: Keramik - Sad Eagle - 2002-08-20

Don't. The version there is a buggy unofficial fork.

Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - anon - 2002-08-19

umm, notice how nobody replied to your first posting :P. Its probably a PAM issue, post a more detailed description on one of the _mailing_list_ if you expect a better answer, it will reach alot more eyes.

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - SUSAN CASH - 2003-04-27

cannot recieve my e-mail???

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - thomas - 2007-02-06

hi susan did you manage to unlock your screen. if so please could you tell me how. its also happend to me ..www.tjpem@hotmail.com

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Waldo Bastian - 2002-08-19

Which packages are you using? Cheers, Waldo

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

SuSE-packages from ftp.kde.org hmm

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

i ment, SuSE "8.0" Packages, using Kernel 2.4.19 (since i compiled and installed the kernel, i cannot get back the splashscreen, i only see 2 Penguins.. although mk_initrd did concatenate the splashscreen-picture into the initrd-file, and Framebuffer-support is also compiled into the kernel) but that's another prob.. (;_;)

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Tim Colgate - 2002-08-19

I had a problem with this some time ago. It was to do with PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules). Do you have files in /etc/pam.d called kde3 and kscreensaver3? I'm not sure if you need both of them, but mine look like: kde3 ---- #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so kscreensaver3 ------------ #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_linux_afs.so ignore_root #auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_linux_afs.so no_unlog ignore_root auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

hi, in the folder "/etc/pam.d" i have got the files: chage imap other ppp shadow su vsftpd xscreensaver chfn login passwd radius squid sudo xdm chsh netatalk pop samba sshd useradd xlock xscreensaver contains: #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix.so nullok

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Tim Colgate - 2002-08-19

I suggest you try creating kde3 and kscreensaver3 in /etc/pam.d with contents as posted above. Create files as root with mode 644. You defintely need one or other of these files if you're using PAM.

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-19

i tried exactly your settings right now, but didn't work ;_; any more ideas ? another thing is, everytime i login, the kicker-applets "Clock", "virtual-desktop-chooser", always appear in the middle of the kicker, even after moving them to the corner, and save the settings during logout. maybe that belongs to the problem above ? :/

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - matze - 2002-08-27

hi, i got the same problem with the locked screen but fixed it with the tips below. the other thing you mentioned appears here too. every time i login, the clock moved to the left side of the screen. the same happens with desktop chooser. and my icons on the left panel (SuSE 8, packages from ftp.kde.org) any fixes for that one??? thanks in advance. matze

Rcant ftp as when '-' is used, "wrong Password" - Tug Ozbay - 2003-06-25

When you create a user in linux to ftp with, and that user password contains a "-" in it, then the password is rejected. You can get around this by doing the following :- vi /etc/pam.d/ftp and hash out the line with :- "auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth" but then you lose all security. I have tested all symbols. And the only one it doesn't line is the minus sign '-'. Pls let us know if anyone has a work around, other than a cheat..! Thnx

Re: Rcant ftp as when '-' is used, "wrong Password" - amanda - 2006-07-26

i know this has nothing to do with your prob but im loking for a person by the name of talitha if you are her family please please let me know because she was very dear to me i was her best friend in florida my email chevellebelle71@yahoo.com

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - PEGGY L.SWANGO - 2004-01-07

I NEED HELP

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - schmettow - 2002-08-20

Hi. I have exactly the same problem. Installed 3.0.3 for SuSE 7.3 from ftp.suse.com yesterday and noticed the problem after early morning coffee break. Here is a better workaround than Ctrl Alt F1 an kill the session: Login as yourself on the console and kill kdesktop_lock. Martin.

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - Mononoke - 2002-08-20

Hi, yes, that may be the only way.. ;_; but, i hate that, because, everytime i starting KDM or the other way, switching from KDM or a running KDE-Desktop to the simple Console with (Contr.+Alt+F1) , then it takes HOURS, ok, at least 15-20 Seconds till the switch is completed. I DON'T KNOW, what is the reason for that.. i have got a RivaTNT and of course the latest driver from Nvidia.com installed, (2960). with 2880 it is the same. Everything is just normal when i use the standard 'nv' driver, but then, 'overlay'or fullscreen in some cases isn't supported. example Noatun: right mouse-click switches at once to real full-screen mode. i am running kernel 2.4.19, but everything is the same with 2.4.18, on my SuSE 8.0 i guess, that depends on the "nvidia" driver. but it is really nerving, waiting so long to get the login-screen or back to console. (;_;) THANKS for all help.. (by the way, which newsgroup or mailing list is best for such problems ?) :)

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - Mononoke - 2002-08-20

Hi again, i tried "kill -9 kdesktop_lock", but that doesn't work.. i just get back to the KDM. But, switching to Console 1 was fast, but the other way takes a long time..

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - Perra - 2002-08-21

An even better hint to deactive the lock is to do this 1. Switch to console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) 2. dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface quit 3. Switch back to X... This also means that if you just want to test if it works after you have tweeked the screensaver a bit you can do this 1. Start a konsole 2. sleep 15; dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface quit If you don't enter right password within 15 seconds dcop will quit the saver for you... :=) /Perraw

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - MAURO - 2004-12-21

FOR GOT MY PASSWORD ON ORUAM71

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - sunny - 2002-09-26

Cant unlock when u lock screen?????? Solution: run 'chown' with root for the kcheckpass utility.

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - ravindra - 2002-11-26

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - Kevin Haddock - 2003-07-05

I have exactly the same problem with a Fujitsu Laptop running Mandrake 9.1. If I let the screen saver come on and the lock runs it won't let me back in even though I type the correct password. How do I rectify this (or just disable it -- I tried in config/kde/look and feel/screensaver to no avail)? Thanks, -Kevin

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Passwor - Michael Granado - 2005-02-16

Changing the suid bit on the file /usr/bin/kcheckpass seems to fix the problem: chmod 4755 /usr/bin/kcheckpass

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Mononoke - 2002-08-20

thanks, it's working now again. don't know how, why... i tried with the hints above, but no change, later, after shutdown, booting old (2.4.18) Kernel, (there lockscreen worked) then booted again 2.4.19, then worked, argh! :)

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Ian Hayhurst - 2002-08-21

I had the same problem (Suse 8), but I remembered this from an earlier KDE upgrade, The new KDE install puts /usr/opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass in group root ctrl alt F1 for a new console login as root cd /usr/opt/kde3/bin/ chown shadow kcheckpass Fixed it for me

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Ian Hayhurst - 2002-08-21

err... that will be chgrp not chown !doh !

The Fix - John - 2002-08-21

> cd /usr/opt/kde3/bin/ > chgrp shadow kcheckpass That fixed it for me too (SuSE 7.2) .. thanks.

Re: The Fix - Lisa - 2002-08-22

I had this problem also (SuSE 8.0). Your suggestion works and you don't seem to need kde3 or kscreensaver3 in /etc/pam.d either. BTW, SuSE installs kde3 in /opt. Thanks.

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - Ian Hayhurst - 2002-08-21

Re: Help, cannot unlock the screen, "wrong Password" - removed by request - 2002-11-16

I've just upgraded to RH 8.0 with kernel 2.14-18 (I believe) and the associated KDE3. When I lock the screen and/or leave the laptop for an extended period, the screen goes black. I bring up the password entry but it is denied (with root logged in)! I am able to enter the password and gain access to kde if it is within a few minutes of locking the screen. Any ideas? Does the hard drive in sleep mode prohibit password access?

Korn doesn't work - dr_lha - 2002-08-20

Odd problem: With the Redhat 7.3 packages Korn no longer seems to detect newly arrived email. I tried reconfiguring korn but to no avail.

Still got the Xinerama bug - Jared - 2002-08-20

Still showing the same xinerama bugs as kde 3.0.0 3.0.1 and 3.0.2. KPersonalizer freezes Kicker freezes whenever a button is pushed KControl refuses to load Konsole refuses to load Is anyone else getting these errors? Because I have reported them several times and they still haven't been fixed. If it's just my system fine, but if it's affecting all xinerama users then when the next series of distributions comes out with kde3, guess how many people will be switching to gnome

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Sebastian - 2002-08-20

Remove the font server in you XF86Config-4 font pathes.

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Jared - 2002-08-20

eh? And replace it with what? I need it to get my fonts. What is it supposed to fix?

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Bryan Feeney - 2002-08-21

Replace it with the paths to your fonts. Instead of FontPath "unix/:-1" Have FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont" FontPath "/opt/ttfonts" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1" etc., Gotta admit though, this is a strange solution to the problem.

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - BöNAS - 2002-10-30

It works because you're telling XFree not to use the X Font Server (XFS.) XFS is a daemon that serves fonts (either to your local X server or to remote machines.) As I understand it, older versions of X (< 4.0) required XFS for their fonts. However, the newer version 4 that most people use has its own built in font server. Setting your FontPath to "unix/:-1" directs X to use XFT. Commenting that out means you have to specify where the system can find you fonts. This has completely solved all my problems using Xinerama and KDE 3.1 (kicker, kcontrol, konsole freezing.) I guess XFS + KDE + Xinerama just doesn't work.

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Aaron Peterson - 2003-04-08

partially works for me. KDE comes up with xinerama... but as soon as I try to move a window between the two windows... choke, death, bye bye everything. I think it might have something to do with Xauthority and xhost now that I've played with my sytem xhost +localhost might work... I have recieved lots of MIT-magic cookie errors (gentoo 1.4rc3 gaming-r1) when trying to open programs (xinerama off) also i've been wodering if: Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection ViewPort has anything to do with it

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Aaron Peterson - 2003-04-08

Grr... (sent before I wanted it to) I attached my XF86config file and I think I have both screens with ViewPort 0 0 on them... I have no idea what that is... but it seems evil.

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - halux - 2002-08-20

Hi, I have also xinerama support enabled and two monitors. Make sure you disabled antialiasing. Kde/QT/X uses hardware AA and the 2 head cards only support hardware accelerated things on the fist head. The xinerama support is more than bad, but I think 3.1 will fix kicker. I hope that the screensavers and the background will works with two screens in 3.2. have fun Felix

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Ravi - 2002-08-20

Hi, I am using Xinerama with two nVidia cards, and I have had no problems with any freezes, etc. Everything works except for the OpenGL screensavers. I have been running RH7.3 with all regular updates and also the KDE CVS tree 3.0.1. We have 4 machines with Xinerama in my lab with various video card combinations and we have no problems. I suspect your problem is due to misconfigured dual head setup or hardware issues (specifically certain motherboards which do not supply the proper rail voltage for PCI video cards). Please check if you can run sawfish over xinerama. If it does, kwin should not be a problem either. Ravi

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Jared - 2002-08-20

Curious. Well kde 2.2 works fine in xinerama mode, however it does not use OpenGL like kde 3 does. So the problem is either xinerama OpenGL or a specific problem with Mandrake 8.2's packages. I'm not sure what the purpose of running sawfish would be as opposed to any other window manager. I have been using xinerama under kde 2.2 for a very long time now and it is completely stable.

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Jason - 2002-10-15

Ravi, how do I setup KDE in the inittab in order to use both monitors as one big screen? Right now with the way I have it setup, each screen is it's own virtual environment. I have RH 8.0 install ( KDE 3.0.3-8 ). I'm using 2 NVidia cards ( 3 [adp] and 2 [pci] ). The only way I can get the single "big" monitor to work, where windows can be dragged between monitors is by doing a "startx -- +xinerama" This is what my inittab is doing: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm +xinerama -nodaemon The xinerama makes absolutely no diff. Thanks, *Email correspondence may get bounced as I haven't updated my DNS due to a new IP address*

Re: Still got the Xinerama bug - Jason - 2002-10-15

Nevermind, figured it out. In /etc/XF86Config, in ServerLayout, needed to add: Option "Xinerama" "on"

it's the nvidia drivers Re: Still got ... - John Bell - 2003-06-23

FWIW, there's a note in the nVidia driver documentation that they do not support OpenGL on both screens with xinerama. Wish they did, but they don't.

Same here! - Andrew - 2002-08-28

Hi, I have exactly the same problem with KDE 3.03 on Mandrake 9.0b4. Using Xinerama with nv (AGP) and s3 virge (PCI) cards. Konsole loads sometimes, and Kcontrol always refuses to load. Rgds, Andrew

3.0.3 upgrade? - me - 2002-08-20

Looks like a lot of people are having problem with 3.0.3. I'll wait for something with less problems. Something else now. Nobody is saying anything about the new gcc release. This should improve the boot speed as the developers were claiming when the KDE 2 series appeared. They told the gcc guys to solve it and they have done it. Now will we have finally a konqui booting JUST AFTER the mouse click as it should be in a file manager? Will KDE boot in 2-3 seconds? I hope so :-) RedHat is pushing for the desktop and KDE will have to look behind. This is going to be challenging. I hope both projects (GNOME+KDE) will improve from that situation.

Re: 3.0.3 upgrade? - fredan - 2002-08-20

Nobody is saying anything about the new gcc release. I can say something. Yesterday I compiled 3.0.3 with gcc 3.1.1 with options like -march=athlon -mmmx -md3now and they have also enabled objprelink again, so it's fast!

Re: 3.0.3 upgrade? - Delete - 2002-08-21

Thanks for your suggestions. Recently upgraded to gcc-3.2, and just compiled KDE with objprelink again & athlon flags. Wow! A huge performance increase, and no compilation problems. Seems like gcc-3.2 + kde-3.0.x is a very nice combination :)

Re: 3.0.3 upgrade? - Mononoke - 2002-08-22

Hi, how/where exactly is the performance increase ? :) have got a dual board, 2x PIII 450MHz, 512MB. but KDE is starting up a bit slow.. the 2cd Symbol in the Ksplash remains a long time (it's about 'System services will be initialized' (don't know the exact english message). of course konqueror-startup takes around 3 seconds too, so i think, faster would be better, at least to introduce a beautiful and fast desktop to XP-users :) i still use gcc 2.95.1 (like that) but your review about 3.2 is sounds really nice, will that be standard in the next (for example) SuSE 8.x edition ? greets

Wallpapers are broken for me - John - 2002-08-20

I just updated from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 using the SuSE 7.2 rpm's. Now I can't get any Wallpapers to display. Even in the Control Center I can't get the screen image to display anything. Anyone else seen this?

Re: Wallpapers are broken for me - John - 2002-08-20

Bugger! The problem seems to be that I can't display any jpg files. Pixie is horribly broken, and kview gives me the following message on the command line. QPixmap::convertFromImage: Cannot convert a null image Kicker now wants to left justify all my Applets everytime I logout :-(

Re: Wallpapers are broken for me - Mike - 2002-08-20

Hello. I have the same problem. I updated from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 using the SuSE 7.2 rpm's. There isn't possible to choose any wallpaper in JPG or PNG format. Wallpapers in BMP are working! I have also problem with wrong password when I lock screen and also problem with moving of applets in the kicker as was written by Mononoke.

Re: Wallpapers are broken for me - John - 2002-08-20

Is this a general problem with the quality of the 3.0.3 release, or are we looking at a kit build and packaging problem from SuSE?

Re: Wallpapers are broken for me - mr. nuba - 2002-08-21

same problem here with suse7.3 no pixie no wallpapers. bye m.n.

Re: Wallpapers are broken for me - mr. nuba - 2002-08-21

you have to edit your ~/.qt/qtrc and change the library path to the correct qt-path (qt-3.0.5). No probs with wallpapers or pixie or the like. bye mr n.

The Fix - John - 2002-08-21

> you have to edit your ~/.qt/qtrc and change the library path to > the correct qt-path (qt-3.0.5). Thanks mr n. Thas fixed it for my account, but not for root. So I went looking and found a system wide /etc/X11/qtrc. Made the same change there and now root and the KDE login screen are behaving as they should. You heard anything about a fix for kicker yet?

Re: The Fix - mr. nuba - 2002-08-21

Haven't found any official fixed package nor statement from suse. There's a private patch published in de.comp.os.unix.apps.kde, the message id is <ajuau4$csr$05$1@news.t-online.com> . The bad news is, that you have to recompile kdebase for yourself after patching. good luck mr. n.

fixing kicker - John - 2002-08-22

Think I'll wait for a new rpm from SuSE. Mixing installation methods is only going to cause me headaches later on.

Source diffs.. - Hywel Mallett - 2002-08-20

For those who want them, source diffs of the main packages are at http://www.hmallett.co.uk

Re: Source diffs.. - John - 2002-08-20

What's wrong with the provided and signed by a KDE developer diffs?

Re: Source diffs.. - Hywel Mallett - 2002-08-21

Link please...

Re: Source diffs.. - Anonymous - 2002-08-21

http://download.kde.org/stable/3.0.3/contrib/diffs-3.0.2-3.0.3/

Re: Source diffs.. - Hywel Mallett - 2002-08-21

Thanks.

Redhat official packages seem broken. - Marcel Janssen - 2002-08-20

Hi, I just tried to upgrade my rh7.3 box to kde 3.0.3 using the official packages and found some strange dependency problems : kdelibs >= 3.0.3-10 is needed by kdebase-3.0.3-0.7 Unfortunately there's only kdelibs-3.0.3-0.7.i386.rpm libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 is needed by arts-1.0.3-0.7 This lib is in arts-1.0.0-4 (?!?!?) There are more of these dependency problems. This seems very odd for an upgrade as it needs the old packages to be installed as well. or, is this some backward compatibility stuff that i'm not aware about ? If so, please provide a README to the RPMS in future. Anyone knows what I'm supposed to do to get these installed ? Regards, Marcel Janssen

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - jlbartos - 2002-08-20

I'm trying to figure out the problem with kdebase. I'm hoping a rebuild will fix the problem, or maybe changing the spec file. Your libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 problem is solved by rebuilding arts-1.0.3-0.7.srpm, which gets rid of that dependency, but that means you are going to have to rebuild the kdemultimedia package. HTH

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - Marcel Janssen - 2002-08-20

Thanks for your work on this ! I'm not in any hurry to upgrade, so I'll upgrade when the kdebase problem gets fixed. Regards, Marcel Janssen

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - bc - 2002-08-22

I have the same problem with kdebase and kdelibs. i installed the kdelibs anyway and all most applications crash on any save action... i hope this gets fixed soon

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - Kent Kollasch - 2002-08-27

Any idea on when the new rpms will be available? Kent

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - MrFoo - 2002-08-28

Yeah, new RPMS would be appreciated.

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - phayte - 2002-08-28

I second the request for the correct kdelibs to be added to the RPMs for us compile-impared. Thanks.

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - Mick Szucs - 2002-08-31

Definitely broken, yes. Seems the folks at Redhat screwed up rather badly on the arts package and the kdebase package. There is a bug ticket at bugzilla.redhat.com for both of these issues. The arts issue has not yet been assigned to anyone for fixing. Fortunately, both issues are easily resolved. kdebase problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71804 Step by step, for the compile-impared 1) Download the kdebase-3.0.3-0.7.src.rpm 2) Install it (rpm -Uvh is my favorite, but whatever...) 3) It will write a .spec file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS 4) Modify the spec file, replace the line that says: kdelibs >= %{version}-10 libxml2 >= 2.4.12 with kdelibs == %{version}-%{rel} libxml2 >= 2.4.12 5) Build your binary from the modified spec file - rpm -bb modified.spec. It will run off and dump your freshly minted rpms in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/ The arts-1.0.3-0.7 problem seems to be just that they used an incomplete version of the source tarball. I don't know how such a thing would happen, but it should be easily fixed. I ended up just installing everything using --nodeps, and then installing the contrib arts-1.0.3-1.0 over-top of the broken one using rpm --force. Come to think of it, the --nodeps flag probably eliminates the need to rebuild the kdebase package at all. So the easiest solution would be to just rpm -Fvh --nodeps everything and then install the updated arts package from the contrib directory. Hmm. I guess the last paragraph eliminates the need for everything that preceeded it. Ah well. Good luck. Mick

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - James - 2002-09-02

I am using RH 7.2 and trying to upgrade to KDE 3.0.3. I am also running into this same problem: rpm -Uvh kdelibs-3.0.3-2.i386.rpm with failed dependencies (one being libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1). I have installed arts-3.0.2-2 and I can't go back because this would further break other dependencies. I also ran into a weird problem with: libcups.so.2 I had to uninstall: libcups1-devel-1.1.14-2mdk.i586.rpm, libcups1-1.1.14-2mdk.i586.rpm and qt-3.0.5-11.i686.rpm then install: cups-libs-1.1.14-10.i386.rpm and qt-3.0.5-11.i686.rpm this resulted in one less failed dependency when I tried to install kdelibs. If you have luck let me know! Thanks in advance, James

Re: Redhat official packages seem broken. - Becks - 2002-09-13

If you run in any problem with a failed dependency like: libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 missing... ignore it, install the package with the nodeps-option and perform the following steps afterwrds: locate the lib (written without the -gcc2.96 withch seems a special bonus of the RedHat guys) - in this case libartsflow.so.1 and create a symlink in the same directory: ln -s libartsflow.so.1 libartsflow-gcc2.96.so.1 Problem solved. I ran in this while installing other software, seems like other packages also contain this strange -gcc2.96 ending in the libs. Alex

Gentoo!!!!!! - Manuel - 2002-08-21

Dependency Problems? Loss of sleep? Rage problems? Frustration?. Dont worry. Linux us simple. Gentoo is simple. root@localhost# emerge kde Gentoo, just do it!

Re: Gentoo!!!!!! - This was posted - 2002-08-21

Yeah, and it really works too. It takes a few hours, but machine time is cheap. Gentoo is great.

Re: Gentoo!!!!!! - Delete - 2002-08-21

Seems like an excellent distribution, but not particularly practical if you're on dialup.

Re: Gentoo!!!!!! - jamirocake - 2002-08-24

Well, gentoo has the option to use binary files instead of compiling yourself , anyway if you use some other distro you have to download the rpms or the debs or whatever you want, so at the end it would be the same.... (Of course you lose the main feture of gentoo but makes it easy to get binaies that actually work)

SQL Plugins - Andreas Scherf - 2002-08-21

I have tried to compile the Postgres Plugin but it didn`t work (i installed rpms and compiled only the sqlplugin and copied it into the sqldriver dir) but nothing happened there. Are there any rpms of this plugins for qt3.0.5 ??

2 words... - Bart Verwilst - 2002-08-21

"emerge kdebase" :o)

Re: 2 words... - JMW - 2002-08-21

=) Yeah gentoo!!!

Mandrake 8.2 Qt3 Designer and KDevelop - NS - 2002-08-22

Qt3 Designer doesn't work! Kdevelop rpm needs kdesdk rpms (not found / included in Kde3.0.3 Mdk8.2 release). Force installed using kdesdk rpms from kde3.0.2, KDevelop doesn't work properly - missing files. e.g. tutorials and html files.

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Qt3 Designer and KDevelop - Chris Spencer - 2002-08-25

QT Designer didn't work for me either when I tried the forced update of packages that everyone has been recommending. I thought it was just a RedHat bug though...

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Qt3 Designer and KDevelop - NS - 2002-08-27

I could not understand why SuSE KDE packaging are far better than Mandrake and RedHat. It seems that the Mandrake packager is assuming that Mandrake users and not as good as SuSE users in terms software development. No KDEbindings and Development tools are missing. I am trying to use mono (C#) and Qt# and I need the KDEbindings and glib2 for these. Please, Mandrake package release the whole lot. Look at SuSE or Waldo package.

Re: Mandrake 8.2 Qt3 Designer and KDevelop - NS - 2002-08-30

Kdesdk3.3.0.3 rpms are available now. They are date 28 August. I just downloaded it. I hope this will fix the breaking of Qt3(Qt3 designer not working) and KDevelop(can't create new programs).

kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - Craig - 2002-08-23

On installing 3.0.3 the login manager doesn't display alternative desktops and does display all potential users even when these are corrected by the control centre settings using suse 7.3 - any one else have this problem and/or any solutions? best wishes craig

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - piet - 2002-08-26

how did you solve it? I ran into the same problem but am somehow stuck in xdm piet

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - tor - 2002-09-05

same prob, no idea to fix it :-(

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - Christophe - 2002-09-17

I had the same problem with the SuSE 7.2. Here is how I solve it. The rpms I first downloaded had a bug. I downloaded the new ones (31 august) from http://www.suse.com/us/private/download/linuks/index.html (it's better you have a good book to read while downloading) and installed them with -Uvh option. But then kdm was unable to launch any system, nor kde nor gnome... After attempting a lot of solutions, I replaced the file /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc by a link to /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Now it works fine. I hope it could work for you too. Best wishes don Christophe

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - bert - 2003-03-16

I also lost kdm login manager and had to resort to xdm and got pretty stressed . I replaced kdmrc in /etc/.. by a soft link to /opt/.. as suggested by don and hurray it works. Great :-)

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) & SuSE 9.0 ! - OdenseOle - 2003-12-16

Hi guys, I don't know whether this is the same problem but the symptoms certainly are the same. I have just installed SuSE Linux 9.0 incl. the latest KDE 3 GUI interface. After using it for a couple of days, wupti! I cannot login! Panic attack! If there is something that can make you nerveous then it is when you cannot log in to your system. What if I am permanently logged out? Will I have to reinstall the whole shooting match again? Have I lost my files? So I did a search on the KDE site (http://www.kde.org/) and searched on: "login problem" and promptly received a link to this posting. I tried your suggestion and it worked! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! don Christope! Now 2 questions for the KDE and SuSE people: 1) Why is this happening? 2) And since the problem has existed for over a year, why hasn't it been fixed? Greetings to you all, OdenseOle

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) & SuSE 9.0 ! - alienz - 2004-07-20

Yup I got the same bug with SUSE 9.1 I think it's KDE 3.2.1 that I'm using. Nasty little thing I gotta say, hope they fix it soon, that's not something that Joe User would be able to fix.

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) & SuSE 9.0 ! - Na - 2005-05-01

OdenseOle, may you show me how to fix this prblem? I use Sue 9.0. Aftering login the first time, I cannot login again ? why ? How to fix it ? Thanks

Re: kdm and login problems (suse 7.3) - Tim Graf - 2002-11-20

I found this solution on http://lists.suse.com/ I highly recomend this site. If you use kde3 and /opt/kde3/bin/kdm as login-manager and always get an ugly grey xdm-ish background make sure you have the following lines in /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup kde3root=/opt/kde3/bin #Somewhere near line 52 for p in ${kde1root}/kdm \ #Starting cirka line 62 ${kde2root}/kdm \ ${kde3root}/kdm

Disk space - Stof - 2002-08-25

I think it's time for me to try out KDE 3. Does anybody know how much disk space a basic KDE 3 system requires when compiled with GCC 3.2 without exceptions and RTTI? I only have about 1 GB free disk space (!).

Red Hat 7.3 - WORKING - RPMs - Stephen Lau - 2002-08-29

I've rebuilt a bunch of the RPMS and I believe I've fixed all the dependencies involving kdebase/kdelibs, and libarts*-gcc2.96 problems. If anyone is interested and can provide some space to host the RPMs, then I don't mind posting them. I've installed them on my RH 7.3 system, as well as two other relatively virgin RH 7.3 systems. cheers, steve

Re: Red Hat 7.3 - WORKING - RPMs - Vince Herried - 2002-08-30

I've discovered a problem where korginizer lost a day, aug only has 30 days if I specify the week begins on sunday, if I specify the week begins on Monday, than, sept starts with sep 2. Assuming I can't get a fix, I guess my recourse is to upgrade to kde 3.0.3 I did a rpm --test --replacefiles -ivh *.rpm and rpm did no complaints. Any thoughts on my chances of success ??

Re: Red Hat 7.3 - WORKING - RPMs - Mårten Woxberg - 2002-09-16

Hi I'd much like those fixed RPMs of yours! I cant seem to find them and since I've broken my gcc-2.96 it seems I can't compile... Contact me via e-mail!

Designer and QTconfig broken - MrFoo - 2002-09-02

With the redhat rpms, I can't run qt designer or qtconfig, they both segfault, is it just me?