[kde-freebsd] KDE 4.2 Observations

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

Hi Martin,

Yes, dbus & hal are both running.

Cheers,
DMK

On February 9, 2009 11:35:49 am you wrote:
> dbus and hal right started?
>
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 11:29:55AM -0500, Dwayne MacKinnon 
wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Installed 4.2 using Area51 ports last night. Everything built properly
> > with no difficulties that I could see. A few observations: (I'm running
> > 7.1-RELEASE i386).
> >
> > 1) The kdemerge script (Tools/scripts/kdemerge) has the 
unfortunate
> > side-effect of wiping out all other files in Tools/scripts. I understand
> > how this happens, as this is the same functionality that removes 
stale
> > patches.
> >
> > 2) kmail is acting strangely. When I launch it it quickly ramps up to
> > take over 90% of one of my CPUs, and it takes a long time (on the 
order
> > of minutes) for the window to appear. I looked in .xsession-errors, 
and
> > found these messages:
> >
> > <unknown program name>(40941)/: Communication problem with
> > "kmail" , it probably crashed.
> > Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did 
not
> > receive areply. Possible causes include: the remote application did 
not
> > send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, 
the
> > reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "
> >
> > This message appeared every time I would try to start kmail.
> >
> > 3) I've come up with a reliable way to crash plasma:
> >
> > 	a) Start kopete with a MSN session.
> > 	b) Allow a pop-up to appear from the kopete system tray icon.
> > 	   (This happens if you receive a message while a window
> > 	   OTHER than the kopete window has the focus.)
> > 	c) Click on the pop-up.
> >
> > Anyways, that's all I've seen so far. I'll report other things as I
> > notice them. I will say that Konqueror's stability is greatly improved 
in
> > 4.2, which makes me happy. And the fact that MSN works again in 
Kopete is
> > great.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > DMK
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