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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: broken KDE installation (what'd I do?!)
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2007-02-27 17:48:41
Message-ID: es1qtp$dec$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Yike! It looks like I broke something major yesterday when I did a fresh 
> 'make clean && make && make install' of kdelibs-3.5-svn. When I try to 
> run KWrite, I get the a dialog with the message:
> 
> "A KDE text-editor component could not be found; please check your KDE 
> installation."
> 
> ...and then it crashes with this:
> 
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread -1208105280 (LWP 1864)]
> [KCrash handler]
> #6  0x00ff3214 in KWrite (this=0x8856888, doc=0x0) at kwritemain.cpp:90
> #7  0x00ff6cf6 in kdemain (argc=2, argv=0xbff3ede4) at kwritemain.cpp:660
> #8  0x080486b2 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbff3ede4) at kwrite.la.cpp:2
> 
> The only output I get is:
> 
> kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from 
> /var/tmp/kdecache-mwoehlke/ksycoca
> 
> I have been running KWrite with svn kate-part before (in fact, what I am 
> trying to do is test changes to kate-part :-)). The only other thing I 
> can think of that changed recently is I built and installed kdesdk from 
> svn. I *don't* have a complete svn package suite installed; libs and 
> arts (and now sdk and base), but that's it. I *do* have a full 3.5.5 
> installation in a separate location that is also in my KDEDIRS.
> 
> Suggestions...?

D'oh! While I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this answer, it turns out 
it is at least partly bash's fault... bash had hashed 'kwrite' to my 
3.5.5 version. After clearing the hash (so that I am running the svn 
version instead), "kwrite" runs again, so the crisis is averted... but I 
still wonder why I used to be able to run 3.5.5 kwrite and suddenly have 
to run the svn version.

(Ok, the other thing I should mention: I also uninstalled my distro's 
subversion and neon packages, I have much newer versions built locally 
but my 3.5.5 would not know about them. Does kwrite indirectly pull the 
subversion libraries in a way that might cause this problem?)

-- 
Matthew
"There's nothing in the universe so permanent as a temporary government 
agency." -- Phil Geusz

 
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