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platojones
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 Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 3:22 pm Post subject: KDE-4.3.5 Printer Config Hangs |
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| Anybody else have this problem. I just upgraded to KDE-4.3.5 and clicking on the Printer Configuration button in the KDE System Configuration app hangs the entire System Configuration window. I think I remember this problem from KDE-4.3.4, but I can't remember exactly what I had to do to fix it. |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Can you look in ~/.xsession-errors for any related errors or post it here? |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Rexilion wrote: | | Can you look in ~/.xsession-errors for any related errors or post it here? |
Thanks for the response. The file doesn't exist though. |
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Did you check that as a normal user? It should really be there... |
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| Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2010 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, same user that KDE is being run under:
| Code: | [octavian64:~]# ls -la .xsession*
ls: cannot access .xsession*: No such file or directory
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I think it is only created if there are errors though. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| Weird :/ Try running the printer configuration from a terminal, see if you get any usefull output. |
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:36 am Post subject: |
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| Yep, I tried that. No output at all. Doesn't seem to do anything. |
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Rexilion
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| Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 11:01 am Post subject: |
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I think it just connects to another running process from KDE and silently backgrounds :/
Login into Xterm safe mode, and start kde from there (startkde4?). I *hope* that will give you some output in that terminal.
A fullblown KDE will start and you should see some output inside that terminal. From there, try to start the printer config and check for output... |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I finally figured out the cause..but the situation still baffles me. I figured out I could run system-config-printer-kde using kcmshell4 from the terminal. I'm running as a normal user (as I always have). It's prompting for the user password in the terminal? WTF? That's why it's silently hanging when I hit the button in the system configuration. That's also why no errors show up in any logs. This is the only configuration item that behaves this way. If I type the password into the terminal, the printer config dialog comes right up. Permissions looks same...I still have no idea what this is about. |
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