kmail problems on new laptop

2010-12-02 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi all, I am having a problem with kmail. I built my laptop on the new job with sid and the included kde 4.4.5. Set up email (kmail 4.4.7), and it receives just fine, I can compose emails, but when I hit that send button, both the compose and kmail windows gray out. I end up killing it after 15 o

4.6 status?

2011-03-03 Thread Brad Alexander
Is there a target date for the kde 4.6 release in sid? Thanks, --b

Device notifier doesn't detect devices

2011-03-03 Thread Brad Alexander
In the past couple of weeks, I have noticed that the device notifier has stopped detecting usb devices I plug in to my workstation, including my Nokia N900's internal drive and the external SD, and my Hitachi 500GB usb drive. They are getting picked up by the system: Mar 3 19:11:44 defiant kernel

kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

2011-03-05 Thread Brad Alexander
Ordinarily, it doesn't seem to be an issue that the modern desktop hides things on the command line level, how ever, when I go digging for something, it does get rather annoying not having it in the obvious location. I have two kde 4.5 installations. On my desktop, I installed Crossover Office, wh

Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

2011-03-05 Thread Brad Alexander
That's interesting, because what is in ~/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu does not match what is showing up in my Lancelot menu. The menus section has: Development Education Edutainment Games Graphics Office Internet Multimedia Science Crossover Applications

Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

2011-03-06 Thread Brad Alexander
e of hours of work...Apparently, even though the menus are "wrong," kde does not see them as "broken." Thanks, --b On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:09 AM, godo wrote: > On 2011-03-06 02:55, Brad Alexander wrote: > >> Indeed we shall. I would have, except there was no in

Fwd: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate?

2011-03-07 Thread Brad Alexander
Forwarded to list...Sorry. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Alexander Date: Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 7:00 AM Subject: Re: kde menu: How to restore/manipulate? To: Martin Steigerwald As it turned out, there was corruption in /etc/xdg/menus/kde4-applications.menu. I replaced it

KDE 4.6.2

2011-04-29 Thread Brad Alexander
I just upgraded my laptop (Dell Latitude E6500) running sid to kde 4.6.2. Did an apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade, added the qt-kde repos and installed kde 4.6.2. Had to then do another dist-upgrade to get all of the kde packages that weren't upgraded by the previous steps. Okay, so now, I logged in t

Re: KDE 4.6.2

2011-04-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Danke shoen, Martin. Please see my comments inline... On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 3:54 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Brad, > > I don't think these are a crash problem, since I have them as well: > > martin@shambhala:~> grep -i frame .xsession-errors > plasma-desktop(3217)/libplasma Plasma::Fram

Re: KDE 4.6.2

2011-05-02 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a little more information to add to this mystery. The story so far: I upgraded my workstation and my laptop to kde 4.6.2 from the experimental snapshot on Friday. Prior to doing so, I did an aptitude full-upgrade on both systems before and after installing. Now, however, the desktop works

Regenerating kde menus?

2012-02-06 Thread Brad Alexander
I rebuilt my workstation with sid, and ten restored from backups. When I restored from backups, my kde menus (which were kind of broken by crossover office that I installed back in the day) were restored as well. I suppose I could remove ~/.kde and let it rebuild my config, then tweak it to my tast

Laptop display smaller when not connected to external monitor

2013-03-28 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm having a bit of a strange problem. I'm running sid with KDE 4.8.4, and just received a new laptop at work. I've noticed something kind of odd that hopefully, someone can help with. The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude E6520, with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I have it at work, hooked u

Kopete upgrade loses OTR?

2013-06-14 Thread Brad Alexander
I just upgraded both my laptop and my desktop this week, and kopete was upgraded from 4:4.8.4-1+b1 to 4:4.8.4-2: ii kopete4:4.8.4-2 amd64instant messaging and chat application ii libkopete44:4.8.4-2 amd64main Kopete libr

Missing printer module?

2013-06-14 Thread Brad Alexander
I just bought a network printer, and while trying to configure it, I opened the System Settings, and when I clicked on Printer Config, I got a message: The service 'Printer Configuration' does not provide an interface 'KCModule' with keyword 'system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py'

Re: Missing printer module?

2013-06-14 Thread Brad Alexander
airly regularly, and hers has not been upgraded since before the wheezy release. --b On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 5:26 PM, Dimitris Papadakis wrote: > On Friday 14 Jun 2013 20:57:47 Brad Alexander wrote: > > What am I missing? > > Hey, check bug report #705467 > > > -- > To UNSUB

akonadi failing to connect to database

2013-07-18 Thread Brad Alexander
I was trying to get kmail working since my upgrade to 4.10. I never got it working in 4.8.4 either, with similar errors. I looked online, but akonadi troubleshooting tips are all over the board. I found some for 4.3, and on the KDE wiki has one troubleshooting tip for "Can't read any details of som

Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

2013-07-19 Thread Brad Alexander
thing about this particular use case. And if MySQL is the right answer, can I use MariaDB? Thanks, --b On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > On Thursday, 2013-07-18, Brad Alexander wrote: > > > Is there a config file that I should get rid of and just let it configure

Re: Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

2013-07-19 Thread Brad Alexander
o notice a larger and larger number of kde apps using .local and .config. Is the .kde directory being deprecated? Thanks, --b On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Friday 19 July 2013 08:22:03 Brad Alexander wrote: > > Which is a better backend? Postgres

Re: akonadi failing to connect to database

2013-07-20 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Kevin Krammer wrote: > > Hmm. > Can you run the mysqld command manually? > for me it looks like: > /usr/sbin/mysqld \\ > --defaults-file=/home/kevin/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf \\ > --datadir=/home/kevin/.local/share/akonadi/db_data/ \\ > --socket=/home/kevin/

Kmail encryption issues

2013-10-31 Thread Brad Alexander
I am wondering if there is a problem with kmail and encryption. I am running two instances of kmail, one on my sid laptop (work), and one on my home machine (sid). Both are running 4:4.10.5-2. I launch both through kontact. I wanted to bounce this off of the list before opening a bug Problem 1: I

Re: KDE 4.12.2

2014-03-07 Thread Brad Alexander
...And hopefully kopete with OTR re-enabled... :) On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM, David Goodenough < david.goodeno...@btconnect.com> wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2014 23:19:51 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > wrote: > > On Monday 17 February 2014 15:44:50 Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > > [

Device notifier strangeness

2014-03-12 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, I'm not sure when it happened, but I am running sid on my desktop, with the latest kde 4.11. Also note that I also have a Dell laptop with much the same configuration. Now, I have a Nokia N900, which is a Maemo-based device as well as an iphone 4. On my desktop, when I plug the iphone in (pri

KDE cleanup

2014-03-12 Thread Brad Alexander
I noticed that there are a variety of kde packages installed on my system. There are mostly 4.11.[3-7] packages, but I see some much, much older packages, including libkworkspace44:4.7.4-2+b1 libkworkspace4abi14:4.8.4-6 libkdegames5a

Re: Device notifier strangeness

2014-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Brad...That worked. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 05:16:59 +0200 > Edward J. Shornock wrote: > > Hello Edward, > > >I've had similar problems but haven't been able to work out what is > >causing it (the plasmoid itself, udev, udisks, etc.). On

Video playback

2014-06-15 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, This was originally posted to debian-user, but aside from the thread getting threadjacked to systemd, I did not get an answer. In any case, my wife has a Dell Inspiron 5537, 15" laptop. It has an Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller. Here is my problem. When I try to play a video

strange KDE behavior

2014-07-14 Thread Brad Alexander
I noticed several strange issues today with my laptop, a Dell Latitude E6520 running sid. I have not updated this box in the last couple of weeks. When I went to shut down this morning to leave for work, clicking on the lock/leave icon in the system tray, or from the menu, it did nothing. I had to

kmail email filtering only works sometimes

2014-10-10 Thread Brad Alexander
I am using kmail (through kontact) for my work email, and everr since I upgraded to 4.14.1-1, mail filtering has been hit or miss. At times, you have to right click on a message and click "apply all filters", and it will properly apply the filters, but most of the time, it does not. In prior versio

Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

2014-10-10 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Volker Wysk wrote: > Am Freitag, 10. Oktober 2014, 08:10:05 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > I am using kmail (through kontact) for my work email, and everr since I > > upgraded to 4.14.1-1, mail filtering has been hit or miss. At times, you > > h

Re: kmail email filtering only works sometimes

2014-10-11 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Xavier Brochard wrote: > > You should have restarted akonadi before. > One can either : > delete the file and logout > or close kmail, delete the file, open konsole and type 'akonadictl > restart', > then reopen kmail. > Awesome. I restarted akonadi and was able

Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-02 Thread Brad Alexander
Over the past two to 3 months, I have had a problem with kmail on my laptop, when connecting to my work exchange server. I have been trying to determine if it is the IMAP server, the corporate NAC, or the akonadi backend. I talked to the exchange admin, and he said nothing has changed on his end si

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-02 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Sandro, Thanks for your response. I will try my best to answer your questions. First of all, the laptop in question is running Debian/sid with KDE 4.14.2. Further answers are inline. On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Sandro Knauß wrote: > Hi, > > > Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-03 Thread Brad Alexander
Freitag, 2. Januar 2015, 11:28:53 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > Over the past two to 3 months, I have had a problem with kmail on my > > laptop, when connecting to my work exchange server. I have been trying to > > determine if it is the IMAP server, the corporate NAC, or the akonadi

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-07 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Martin, On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I see that message here as well sometimes. Mostly after some spikes in > Akonadi > / MySQL activity (although MySQL is mostly gone from CPU after recent perf > work in Akonadi server, see below). > > Then for me then KMail do

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-07 Thread Brad Alexander
On Saturday 03 January 2015 22:01:12 Brad Alexander wrote: > > It may be, but the bug seems to go nowhere...And it appears that my > > problems started with 1.13.0/4.14.0. > > indeed, 1.12/4.13 was the best version to work with an Exchange server. > AFAIK > with 4.14 &quo

Re: Possible akonadi problem?

2015-01-22 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Dimitry. I will let you know what I find. --b On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Hi Brad, > > On Fri, 2 Jan 2015 11:28:53 Brad Alexander wrote: > > Can anyone suggest a fix or workaround other than starting akonadi every > 5 > > - 10 mi

Logout buttons no longer work

2015-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a kind of a weird one, not sure where to go with it. For the past while, I am unable to shut down or reboot my Dell Latitude laptop. At the end of the day, I have been doing "sudo halt"... But in the past week or so, I have noticed that when I do this, the system feels obligated to delete

Re: Logout buttons no longer work

2015-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Keian Rao Eng Haau wrote: > Brad, considering you have done "sudo halt", this might sound a bit > stupid, but have you tried using "shutdown -h now" instead? You might need > to sudo that. For restarts, use "-r" instead of "-h". > You do need sudo for shutdown. An

Re: Logout buttons no longer work

2015-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Johannes Zarl wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2015 17:06:52 Brad Alexander wrote: > > > What exactly happens when you try to logout? Nothing happens? > > > > Nothing. The menu doesn't even come up when I click the logout button in &

Re: Logout buttons no longer work

2015-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Shai Berger wrote: > I may have had to manually install systemd-sysv or remove systemd-shim or > something. It was more than 6 months ago, memory fails me. > That may have been it. I was trying my best to give systemd a fair shake, so I was listening to interviews

Lock/logout

2015-03-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Hey, Got kind of a strange one here...Strange enough that I have no idea where to begin looking. I have a sid laptop running the latest kde from the sid repos, what looks like 4.14.2. Over the past couple of months, I have noticed that the logout/shutdown buttons do not work, whether I do it fr

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

2015-09-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Mine has been broken for weeks now...I have not upgraded because it appears to want to deinstall all of KDE, plus other packages (like libreoffice): The following packages will be REMOVED: akonadiconsole akregator amarok amor aptitude ark blinken blogilo bomber bovo cantor cantor-backend-kalge

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

2015-09-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Andy, So are you saying to let it uninstall all of that stuff? This is my wife's machine, so I really can't afford to have KDE broken on it. My machine is running pc-bsd and is quite happy. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Andreas Bourges wrote: > On Tuesday 01 September 2015

Re: Upgrade warning: KDE/Plasma 5 stuff broken

2015-09-01 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Andreas Bourges wrote: > > > Hi Brad, > > > > On Tuesday 01 September 2015 08:51:17 Brad Alexander 00 > > > > No, no, no,no... apt would have uninstalled all those packages - until > yesterday. Then the situation got way bett

Wife's sid box still wants to deinstall on dist-upgrade

2015-09-17 Thread Brad Alexander
Has the gcc5 situation stabilized in sid? A dist-upgrade still wants to uninstall a bunch of stuff: The following packages will be REMOVED: coinor-libcoinutils3 coinor-libosi1 digikam digikam-private-libs gimp kde-full kde-plasma-desktop kde-plasma-netbook kde-standard kde-workspace kde-work

Re: Wife's sid box still wants to deinstall on dist-upgrade

2015-09-17 Thread Brad Alexander
So kde-full, kde-standard, and the kdebase-workspace/kde-plasma packages are not required for kde5, and won't uninstall necessary packages? I don't want to break her kde install. --b On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 11:59:58 -0400 >

Clearing the akonadi cache

2015-09-25 Thread Brad Alexander
I figured I would ask here. In the past week and a half or two weeks, my kmail/kontact has slowly come unglued. I am running the following versions on a sid machine: ii akonadi-backend-mysql 1.13.0-7 ii akonadi-backend-sqlite 1.13.0-7 ii akonadi-server

Re: Clearing the akonadi cache

2015-10-01 Thread Brad Alexander
I have not. Currently working with the mail admins at work, but at this point, they are tossing straws into the wind. I'm wondering if it is an issue with my mail people or with MS playing passive-aggressive again against open source. --b On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 12:59 AM, Danny Li wrote: > Hi