Amarok 2.2.2 system configuration / and does not find collection backend ("SOLVED")

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 01/15/2010 06:36 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Freitag 15 Januar 2010 schrieb Jeff Mitchell:
>> On 01/15/2010 05:56 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>>> A kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental *after* installing Amarok 2.2.2 then
>>> did the trick. The one I ran before upgrading Amarok did not.
>>
>> Well, right. Because the plugin versions changed. Running a
>>  kbuildsycoca with the old plugin versions installed isn't going to
>>  update the cache with the new plugin version information...
>>
>>> IMHO manually this shouldn't be necessary.
>>
>> I'm not sure when it's supposed to kick off manually or not. I do
>> believe it's run on login, so a logout/in should probably have fixed
>>  it.
>>
>> I know on Gentoo at least they tried for a while to run kbuildsycoca4
>> after ebuild installation, but I guess it requires a running X server
>> for some reason so they aborted that. (Maybe *that* would be something
>> good to ask about in an upstream bug report.)
> 
> Hmmm, I am not so sure it does. At least it runs via SSH from my T42 to my 
> T23 without DISPLAY=:0.

I didn't say it required your user to have access to a particular X
server, just that it requires one. I don't know the details; the
gentoo-kde guys would know more.

--Jeff

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