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nightfrost
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 Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject: k3b crashes mockingly (only for one user) [solved :oops:] |
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for some reason k3b started to crash today:
| Code: | $ k3b
Qt: Locales not supported on X server
k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name or about data passed to the constructor!
KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing...
Qt: Locales not supported on X server |
This happens when ever I choose e.g. burn iso-image in the menu. Pretty much any choice leads to a crash. There's no real error message either, which I find weird. Also, k3b works for other users.
Any ideas? I've been trying to remove the ~/-files of k3b, but I can't find them. 
Edit:
The mockery continues... I logged out and in again and it worked. I still have no idea of what happened (and still wouldn't mind if anyone would enlighten me). |
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COMKEEN
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Joined: 07 Nov 2003
Posts: 70
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| Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
| Quote: | | This happens when ever I choose e.g. burn iso-image in the menu. |
| Quote: | | Also, k3b works for other users. |
I had exactly the same problem. This was because I was logged in as two different users at the same time. Let's say, I was logged in as user1 and user2 and that I logged in as user1 before user2. The disc drives then got chowned to user1 and chmodded to read/write only to user1. Check this with
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$ ls -lah /dev/hd{c,d}
brw------- 1 user1 cdrom 22, 0 1. Jun 09:39 /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 user1 cdrom 22, 64 1. Jun 09:39 /dev/hdd
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That means that the devices are not accessible when you log in as user2 (you can prove that in the Preferences dialog of k3b: The Device section should be empty) and - I think so - that's the reason why k3b crashes.
To solve this problem, su to root and chown to the correct user. Well, this would mean that you can't access the device as user1 anymore. Better is to chmod the group bits like this:
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$ cd /dev/
$ chmod 660 hdc
$ chmod 660 hdd
$ ls -lah hd{c,d}
brw-rw---- 1 user1 cdrom 22, 0 1. Jun 09:39 /dev/hdc
brw-rw---- 1 user1 cdrom 22, 64 1. Jun 09:39 /dev/hdd
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Note that the devices still belong to user1, but since both user1 and user2 are in the cdrom group, they can access the disc drives (there should now be entries in the Device section of k3b's Preferences dialog for user2).
If you are not logged in as two users at the same time, but one after another, it's also worth a try to check the owner of the devices. In the past I recognized, that some devices keep the settings of the former user (or the very first user which logged in) and therefore you have to (re-)set them by hand. |
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