[kde-linux] LCD weather widget not finding noaa stations

[Duncan]

Dale posted on Sun, 23 Dec 2012 03:55:50 -0600 as excerpted:

> Well, I finally got a chance to log out and back in, as my backup user.
> I deleted the .kde directory for my backup user before logging in.  I
> could not get Tupelo to work.  I also tried Jackson MS and it didn't
> work either.  All these cities are listed, even as NOAH, but none of
> them display any weather info.  No temps, no pressure or wind.  I also
> tried New York NY and no info.  I find it hard to believe that hat one
> could really be broken.
> 
> I don't know what it could be but if a default config doesn't work, I
> don't know what will.  Certainly nothing config wise I can change on my
> end is going to help.  Unless it is a USE flag issue, I don't know of
> anything else to try.

If ALL those are failing, even with a new/clean user config, I'd guess 
it's a stale library somewhere.  Do you always emerge --update --deep --
newuse?  If you don't, it's likely you have an older version of something 
than I do (beyond the obvious fact that I'm running kde 4.10-rc1, aka 
4.9.95, now), since I always use --deep --newuse with my updates.  What 
about revdep-rebuild?

If it was a normal app, we could ldd-trace the libs and compare versions, 
but plasma being what it is, it's probably bringing in a whole slew of 
exotic libs, plus the plasmoids would be dl-opened (I /believe/ that's 
the correct terminology) and thus only run-time linked, so they'd not 
show up in ldd.  strace -feopen could do it, but that'd list all the 
fonts, icons, display themes, etc, opened as well.  Of course its output 
could be grepped for shared-objects (*.so*) only, but that's still going 
to be a whole list to go thru, including the plasmoids either of us may 
have installed from kdelook, etc...

Still, it could be done if it comes to that...

But double-check your deep dependencies first, and revdep-rebuild, and 
try yawp so we're comparing oranges to oranges (I have a thing against 
proprietary, including proprietary apples!), and if all /that/ fails, 
/then/ we can try the strace thing.

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