Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-30 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:05:55 + (UTC), James wrote:

  killall kmix may not work in that case.  It appears it is running as 
  part of kdeinit.  May not want to kill that unless you have nothing
  open that matters.  Not sure what all that would kill.  
 
 
 killall kmix did nothing

Because, as Dale said, it's running as a kdeinit process. Use ps to get
the PID and kill that. KMix won't stat if it is already running, even if
that process has crashed.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-30 Thread Mick 
On Sunday 30 January 2011 16:26:35 James wrote:
 Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
   killall kmix did nothing
  
  Because, as Dale said, it's running as a kdeinit process. Use ps to get
  the PID and kill that. KMix won't stat if it is already running, even if
  that process has crashed.
 
 I did:
 
  ps aux | grep kmix
 root 31977  0.0  0.0   6184   576 pts/2S+   11:19
 0:00 grep --colour=auto
 
 All that is(was) running was the grep process...
 
 I think I found the problem, but need a little guidance.
 
  All prepared. Starting rebuild
 emerge --oneshot --pretend --with-bdeps y app-editors/xemacs:0
 app-office/akonadi-server:0
 app-text/libspectre:0
 dev-db/libdbi-drivers:0
 dev-lang/php:5.3
 dev-libs/apr-util:1
 dev-libs/cyrus-sasl:2
 dev-libs/redland:0
 kde-base/nepomuk:4.4
 media-gfx/imagemagick:0
 x11-libs/qt-sql:4
 
 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
 
 Calculating dependencies... done!
 
 emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to
 satisfy =kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.
 5[aqua=,-kdeprefix,semantic-desktop]
 
 
 One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
  kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2 (Change USE: +semantic-desktop)
 (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk-4.4.5 [ebuild])
 (dependency required by kde-base/nepomuk:4.4 [argument])
 
 
 Obviously I can do what it is advising me to do: add
 semantic-desktop to the USE flag in either the make.conf file
 or per package in packeage.use... or such.
 
 What are the caveats of semantic-desktop and nepomuk?
 Can I just delete these and go my merry way, or
 where should I read up on these kde4 (pillar) requirements?
 
 
 Googling, I found this thread:
 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-799299-start-0.html
 
 Code:
 echo =kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.0 semantic-desktop  /
 etc/portage/package.use
 
 I'm now running kde-4.4 and everything seems fine. My understanding
 of what I've done is that kdelibs is now set up to support any
 application which thinks it wants semantic-desktop on while all those
 applications with optional support for semantic-desktop know not to use
 semantic-desktop.
 
 
 Guidance and suggestions are warranted, methinks

At some time in the past (like a year ago?) I had to add it to my make.conf 
because some packages would not work without it, but forgot the details.  This 
is what is currently using it on my system:

$ euse -I semantic-desktop
global use flags (searching: semantic-desktop)

[+ C  ] semantic-desktop - Cross-KDE support for semantic search and 
information retrieval

Installed packages matching this USE flag: 
kde-base/dolphin-4.4.5
kde-base/gwenview-4.4.5-r1
kde-base/kdebase-runtime-meta-4.4.5
kde-base/kdelibs-4.4.5-r2
kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.4.5
kde-base/kdepim-meta-4.4.9
kde-base/kget-4.4.5
kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.4.5
kde-base/pykde4-4.4.5-r1
net-wireless/kbluetooth-0.4.2

local use flags (searching: semantic-desktop)

[+ C  ] semantic-desktop (kde-base/pykde4):
Enables Nepomuk and Soprano python language bindings

A full KDE DE may need it more than this.

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Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick 
On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:40:27 + (UTC), James wrote:

 ok, I ran a tail -f /home/user/.xsession-errors
 
 in one window and typed in kmix in another terminal 
 window. Nothing logged and the command line just returned
 empty as though I just hit the return key...

It's possible kmix is already running, even though no icon is showing,
try killall kmix first.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kmix/sound broken

2011-01-29 Thread Dale 

james wrote:

Neil Bothwickneilat  digimed.co.uk  writes:


   

It's possible kmix is already running, even though no icon is showing,
try killall kmix first.
 

Um the icon does show up in the bottom bar and under
the kde pludown menu... Launching from either results
in a bouncing icon and no app started.

Manual launch from the terminal, just returns empty.
nice idea! but:

#  killall kmix
kmix: no process found


Besides the problem survives a emerge -e system
and subsequent reboot, so the next blunt instrument
is emerge -e world..

All the kde packages are going to get rebuilt

James
   


I noticed this:

root@fireball / # ps aux | grep kmix
dale   667  0.0  0.8 453144 33048 ?Sl   Jan28   0:00 
kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 
10d8df6f6b00012470045010112470008_1281663401_3252
root 27998  0.0  0.0   6188   572 pts/0R+   11:30   0:00 grep 
--colour=auto kmix

root@fireball / #

killall kmix may not work in that case.  It appears it is running as 
part of kdeinit.  May not want to kill that unless you have nothing open 
that matters.  Not sure what all that would kill.


You may could just kill that specific process tho.  That may help.  
Another thought, do you not have a Kmix icon in the panel?  That's where 
mine is.  It looks like a speaker with some sound coming out of it.


Dale

:-)  :-)