KMyMoney 5.1.2 conflict with Olympia

[John Peters]

Answers below. I'll be happy to examine further if necessary.

Thanks for your help.

John



Le 26/10/2022 à 20:22, Jack via KMyMoney a écrit :
> On 2022.10.26 12:46, John Peters via KMyMoney wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm a fan of KMyMoney that I've been using for years on Linux Ubuntu. 
>> I'm currently on Ubuntu 22.04 with KMyMoney 5.1.2
>>
>> Everything works fine.
>>
>> I recently tried an astrology programme called Olympia. Once I 
>> install Olympia, KMyMoney does not open. As soon as I uninstall 
>> Olympia KMyMoney reacts normally again.
>>
>> I have contacted the developers of Olympia and they have sent me a 
>> version with no external libs as they thought there was a conflict of 
>> modules. However, I still have the same problem.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions as to why Olympia may prevent KMyMoney 
>> from opening and any possible solution?
>>
>> Might migrating to 5.1.3 make any difference?
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>> John Peters
>>
> Can you give us a pointer to the source for Olympia?  I can't find 
> anything with a quick search except what looks like an expensive 
> Microsoft program.
https://www.olympia-astrologie.com/
>
> Minor question - are you running Gnome or Plasma as your main 
> desktop?  It shouldn't really matter,
Ubuntu 22.04 MATE
>
> When KMM fails to start, are there any error messages, or just a 
> silent failure?  Have you tried starting KMM from command line to see 
> if anything useful is reported to console?  You might also try "strace 
> kmymoney" and start by just looking at the last dozen lines or so.  
> The total output will be pretty large, so capturing to a file might be 
> wise, so you can examine it at your leisure. If you don't see anything 
> obvious, try grepping for fail or err.

Starting from command line when Olympia is installed returns:
"qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in ""
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be 
initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

>
> Additional thoughts:  examine the list of files installed by Olympia.  
> (did you build from source or use the ubuntu package?) Not likely, but 
> see if it might have overwritten some other system (especially KDE) 
> library.
Installed the .deb downloaded from Olympia Essai Linux 
<https://olympia-astrologie.com/download/fkapcnrbzgcovmzb/> using Gdebi 
(left click and it installs. I don't know where to look to find the 
associated files.
>
> I don't think 5.1.3 will be any different, but you could try the 
> appimage version easily enough, just to check. 
> (https://kmymoney.org/appimage.html)
>
> Jack
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