Re: PLEASE TEST snapshots

[Marc Espie <espie@nerim.net>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 11:33:10AM +0000, Leopold Bloom wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 07:12:57PM -0800, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:46:33PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > > 
> > > Please test the damn packages !
> > 
> > kmail from kdenetwork-2.2.2 seems to be b0rked.  I even removed all kde
> > configs and all the kmail files in ~/Mail to try a clean start.  Then I
> > removed them again and loaded up kde, and tried kmail again, but it just
> > doesn't work.  There's a running kmail process, but it never displays.
> > The kmail process has to be 'kill -9'ed to make it go away. 
> > 
> > --
> > <jakemsr@jakemsr.com>
> Jupp, same here. kaddressbook, knode, kdict also refuse to work. 
> I removed all packages and reinstalled them, also mved the ~/.kde out of the
> way. If run as normal user, konqueror is _very_ slow in file-browsing without
> using cpu or something, it just seems to idle 2s. Run as root it works as
> expected.

I have an explanation for it. There is a bug in KUniqueApplication::start,
which uses an int variable to communicate results to a parent through a
pipe, but passes a character. What I really can't figure out is why this
ever worked (and this has been fixed in kde3, btw)... considering the way
kde uses and abuses shared library, it might simply be a tweak in ld.so
that made it stop working.

Since all the applications that don't start ARE KUniqueApplications, it's
likely this is indeed the issue.

There should be new packages out shortly, with this behavior fixed...

I'll look into the other issues:
- konqueror slow when non-root: I gather konqueror writes summary files
when it can, and it can't if it's not root.
- konqueror not starting up the first time: unlikely to get fixed. Not
really such a big issue anyways.