[kde-linux] [FOLLOW UP] Re: Upgrading Linux breaks KDE 3.5

[James Richard Tyrer]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> History: When running KDE on Linux, my swap file filled up, so I 
> increased the swap space and it still filled up.
> 
> Upgrade: I have now upgraded to GLibc 2.9, binutils-2.19 (was already 
> using), Qt-3.3.8b, GnuPG-2.0.11 (and dependencies), OpenSSL-0.9.8g, 
> Xorg-7.4+ (xorg-server-1.5.3) along with a lot of secondary libraries.
> 
> I have the current Kernel 2.6.29.2
> 
> X11R7 upgrade was necessary to get compositing to work on KDE-4, which 
> it now does.
> 
> The swap problem has disappeared in KDE-3.5 which makes me wonder if 
> there was a bug in Qt.
> 
> However, I now have other problems:
> 
> !.	kgpg crashes on startup.
> 2.	KDESU doesn't work.
> 3.	Konqueror still gets clogged up when I have a lot of stuff open.
> 
> The developers claim that KDE-3.5 is not maintained, but since KDE-4.2 
> isn't really stable enough (actually it appears to be just Plasma) for 
> production use, I wonder what I should do.  Has maintenance been left up 
> to the distros?
> 
> Fedora patches have allowed me to still build aRts -- doesn't matter 
> much since some KDE-3.5 stuff that depends on arts doesn't work.  I 
> wonder if it safe to try the Fedora patches for KDE-3.5.10 since I 
> notice that Fedora 10 isn't using the real Glibc-2.9.
> 
> Anybody have similar problems or suggestions.
> 
> Are there specific version requirements for KDE-3.5 dependencies listed 
> somewhere?
> 
I have found one issue.  It appears that "popen" is somewhat broken in 
GLibc-2.9.  Gento has a patch for the problem and applying it solved #1 
& #2.

-- 
JRT

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