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/2 S+ 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.... James