[Nottingham] KDE weirdness

[stripes theotoky]

Thanks to

Anil Kiral

for sending me the file permissions.

I have no idea how /var got that screwed up but they are fixed thanks to
you.

Thanks to everyone else also for their suggestions

This has now allowed me to find and fix the other problem which turned out
to be googleearth

ldd `which kde4-config` | grep Qt

libQtCore.so.4 => /opt/google/earth/free/libQtCore.so.4 (0x07cfa000)
libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0x00634000)
libQtNetwork.so.4 => /opt/google/earth/free/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0x0053a000)
libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0x004ac000)

As a quick and dirty fix I have just renamed the directory free to freexxx.
Googleearth doesn't run but everything else seems fine.

Stripes



On 30 July 2013 23:42, stripes theotoky <stripes.theotoky at googlemail.com>wrote:

> More progress,
>
>  > ls -alR /var > permissions
>> >
>> > and send me the permissions file.
>>
>> Can you not get that from some weird incantation with "apt-get" to list
>> the package files and permissions?
>>
>
> Probably but I don't know how. It is something I must research in case I
> ever have to do this again.
>
> Reset all the file ownerships in /var (the permissions file was 180 pages
> so it has taken a while to work though it.) I didn't change the permissions
> just the owners and it seems to have worked.
>
> system boots
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> apt-get -f install
>
> No errors
>
> which is much better than it was before.
> Still drops me to the command line.
>
> cat /var/log/kdm.log gives this error
>
> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet: symbol look up error:
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQtSvg-so.4: undefined symbol:
> _ZNK14QWidgetPrivate17hasHeightForWidthEv
>
> Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
>
> I get similar errors in trying to start dolphin, kate, kile.
>
> So at present I can log into the command line.
> startx gives me lnusertemp error
> xinit starts an x term where I can start some graphical software not
> dependent on libQtSvg
>
> Very odd really.
>
> Stripes
>
>
>>
>>
>> Good your system proved clean with Memtest86+ and fsck. Always good to
>> be sure the hardware isn't causing randomness...
>>
>>
>> Let us know how this unfolds!
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Martin
>>
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