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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] Re: kalarm for kdepim46 crashes
From:       David Jarvie <lists () astrojar ! org ! uk>
Date:       2011-02-12 23:44:04
Message-ID: 201102122344.05749.lists () astrojar ! org ! uk
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On Saturday 12 February 2011 23:29:27 David Jarvie wrote:
> On Saturday 12 February 2011 23:27:38 David Jarvie wrote:
> > On Saturday 12 February 2011 14:38:08 Stefan Vater wrote:
> > > David Jarvie wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Friday 11 February 2011 21:01:05 Stefan Vater wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am using openSUSE 11.3 (64 bit) with KDF and kdepim46 repos.
> > > > > Unfortunatelly, kalarm always crashes on startup and almost every time
> > > > > it is started manually. When I delete the ~/.kde4/share/apps/kalarm
> > > > > folder, kalarm seems not to crash the first time I use it. But at least
> > > > > at the first next restart of kde it crashes again.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I suppose, it might have to do with the Qt patch needed, which was
> > > > > reported in [1]. But I am not sure. If yes, would it be possible to add
> > > > > a version of qt including this patch to the repos? That improve testing
> > > > > this version a lot ;-) Otherwise, I can also give some more
> > > > > information, file a bug report to kde, if needed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Stefan
> > > > > 
> > > > > [1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/release-team/2011-January/004428.html
> > > > 
> > > > If kalarm is built to use Akonadi, it will usually crash on startup unless
> > > > the Qt patch you mention is applied.
> > > > 
> > > > However, the Akonadi option is still very much under development, and is
> > > > certainly not in a working state yet. Currently, the build by default does
> > > > NOT use the Akonadi option, and it should be kept that way until KDE 4.7.
> > > > If openSUSE 11.3 provides the Akonadi version of KAlarm, that would be a
> > > > serious bug.
> > > > 
> > > > If openSUSE 11.3 provides the non-Akonadi version of KAlarm, I don't know
> > > > why it would be crashing like you describe. In that case, please raise a
> > > > bug at bugs.kde.org, and supply the crash trace.
> > > > 
> > > How do I see if it is Akonadi-based. It would probably need an Akonadi-
> > > kalarm-ressource!? That I do not have. So, I will file a bug in the next 
> > > days...
> > 
> > Check kalarm's version by using the Help -> About KAlarm menu option. If it is \
> > 2.4.x or 2.5.x, then it won't be an Akonadi version. (Although bear in mind that \
> > if you access the address book from KAlarm, it does use Akonadi.) I'm pretty sure \
> > that the default version of kalarm which is supplied with openSUSE 11.3 will be \
> > ok. I'd only expect any Akonadi problems for kalarm if you updated to the latest \
> > kdepim, which includes kalarm version 2.6.x.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't read your original post properly. I see that it does state that \
> you're using kdepim 4.6, so it looks like it probably IS building kalarm to use \
> Akonadi. Which is a very wrong thing to do. 

And I now see that the build file for 4.6 actually does erroneously build the Akonadi \
version by default, which is not what I thought it did. This is now fixed in the KDE \
repository, but it will take time to reach the openSUSE packages.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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