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wbrokow1
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 Posted: Sun May 01, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: lisa problem |
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I have lisa emerged but I cant seem to run it.
I get an error:
brokow1 root # /etc/init.d/lisa start
* Starting lisa...
start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/kde/3.3/bin/lisa: No such file or directory
* Failed to start lisa
I am using kde 3.4
Any help troubleshooting would be appreciated. |
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 3:43 am Post subject: Re: lisa problem |
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| wbrokow1 wrote: | I have lisa emerged but I cant seem to run it.
I get an error:
brokow1 root # /etc/init.d/lisa start
* Starting lisa...
start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/kde/3.3/bin/lisa: No such file or directory
* Failed to start lisa
I am using kde 3.4
Any help troubleshooting would be appreciated. |
For starters, it could be that /etc/init.d/lisa is looking in the wrong KDE directory -- /usr/kde/3.3... given you said you were using KDE 3.4. I suspect you might have some environment variables gone crazy ... what do you get from
[EDIT]
OK, I should have looked at /etc/init.d/lisa before I posted. At any rate it seems /etc/init.d/lisa is hardcoded for kde3.3.
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 3:52 am Post subject: |
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OK, well I had not emerged lisa myself under KDE 3.4 until now ... and now that I have done it, I see an update with etc-udpate ... the diff shows changing from 3.3 to 3.4 in /etc/init.d/lisa ...
So, when you emerged the kde 3.4 lisa, did you run etc-udpate and accept the changes?
[EDIT]
I still had /etc/init.d/lisa from my previous KDE 3.3 install, which was what I was going by in my previous post.
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| Posted: Mon May 02, 2005 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I went back and ran etc-update. used the -3 option.
I still get the same error. Should I re-emerge lisa?
THanks for all your help. |
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I don't remember what -3 is specifically, and I don't have anything to update so I can't check at this time.
You should be able to re-emerge lisa and get the needed change in /etc/init.d/lisa, however if I am not mistaken you can probably just edit /etc/init.d/lisa and change 3.3 to 3.4 -- am not 100% positive, but that could be the only difference in /etc/init.d/lisa for KDE 3.3 and 3.4. Of course, if your machine is not too slow, it doesn't take too long to re-emerge lisa.
Actually, I post here the contents of my /etc/init.d/lisa ... you decide what you want to do, but a re-emerge followed by an etc-update will give you the following
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/kde-base/lisa/files/lisa,v 1.1 2005/01/15 02:24:41 danarmak Exp $
depend() {
use net
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting lisa"
start-stop-daemon --start -x /usr/kde/3.4/bin/lisa -q -- $LISACONF 1>/dev/null
eend $? "Failed to start lisa"
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping lisa"
start-stop-daemon --stop -x /usr/kde/3.4/bin/lisa -q
eend $? "Failed to stop lisa"
}
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| Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, it worked!
I edited the script to read 3.4 instead of 3.3.
Again, many thanks!!! |
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There are often problems like this with various versions of KDE and hardwired scripts. It's usually a good idea to create a soft link from old KDE installation directories to the new ones in order to get around little problems like this that pop up in unexpected places.
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How do I create that soft link?
What should the syntax look like?
Thank you for your time and for your response, I am new to linux. |
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| Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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To create softlink (also known as a symbolic link or symlink) use the following format
| Code: | ln -s /some/file/you/want/to/link/to/elsewhere /the/link/is/made/here/
.. i.e. ln -s original_file symlink_file
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ln -s /usr/kde/3.3/bin/some_file /usr/kde/3.4/bin/some_file
... this creates a symlink to /usr/kde/3.3/bin/some_file in /usr/kde/3.4/bin/
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You can do this for you /etc/init.d/lisa .. however, yoiu can just replace your lisa script with what I posted, as that is what should have happened with an etc-update after emerging KDE 3.4. I personally don't like the idea of softlinking from kde 3.3 to 3.4, as it will add problems should you remove kde 3.3 -- but whatever suits the individual 
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| Quote: | | You can do this for you /etc/init.d/lisa |
Most definately (I would also recommend this)
I should have clarified: The soft linking is just for other cases where this might happen that you don't know about yet. Think of it as a preemptive work-around. If you installed kde 3.4 _AND_ uninstalled kde 3.3 then creating the soft link shouldn't cause any problems. If you have both 3.3 and 3.4 installed in parallel, then _DON'T_ do this, it will really screw things up.
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