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FS#19739 - Text editors not working

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Thomas (dlandmj) - Monday, 07 June 2010, 22:26 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 08 June 2010, 08:19 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Since the last ArchLinux upgrades, today, I have no text-editor available.

Kate 4.4.4-1 crashes immediately when I try to start it up, with no error message.

I tried installing KWrite as an alternative. That also crashes immediately when I try to start it up, but does give an error message, as follows:

A KDE text-editor component could not be found.
Please check your KDE installation.

I've tried reinstalling the two packages listed as dependencies for kate and for kwrite. That has no effect.

Sorry if I've missed something: I'm a newbie. Posted this problem first to the "Newbie" forum, and was advised there to post a bug report.
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Closed by  Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 08 June 2010, 08:19 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Ionut Biru (wonder) - Monday, 07 June 2010, 22:41 GMT
"last updates" can be a bit vague. please provide logs. (hint pacman.log)
Comment by Martin Thomas (dlandmj) - Monday, 07 June 2010, 22:52 GMT
This is the recent stuff from pacman.log

[2010-06-07 18:31] synchronizing package lists
[2010-06-07 18:32] starting full system upgrade
[2010-06-07 18:37] synchronizing package lists
[2010-06-07 18:37] starting full system upgrade
[2010-06-07 18:38] upgraded attica (0.1.4-1 -> 0.1.3-1)
[2010-06-07 18:38] upgraded cryptsetup (1.1.0-2 -> 1.1.2-1)
[2010-06-07 18:38] upgraded gcc (4.5.0-3 -> 4.5.0-4)
[2010-06-07 18:38] upgraded gcc-libs (4.5.0-3 -> 4.5.0-4)
[2010-06-07 18:39] upgraded kdelibs (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:40] upgraded oxygen-icons (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:40] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdepimlibs (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdepim-runtime (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdebindings-python (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdeartwork-desktopthemes (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdebase-lib (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdebase-dolphin (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdebase-kfind (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:41] upgraded kdebase-konsole (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] warning: /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc installed as /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.pacnew
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdebase-workspace (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdegraphics-ksnapshot (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdegraphics-libs (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdegraphics-okular (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdemultimedia-kmix (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdenetwork-kopete (4.4.3-2 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeplasma-addons-applets-frame (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeplasma-addons-applets-leavenote (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeplasma-addons-applets-showdesktop (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeplasma-addons-runners-kopete (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdesdk-kate (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeutils-kwallet (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded kdeutils-printer-applet (4.4.3-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded openssl (1.0.0-2 -> 1.0.0.a-2)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded libfetch (2.30-3 -> 2.31-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded libjpeg (8.0.1-1 -> 8.0.2-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded libtool (2.2.6b-3 -> 2.2.8-1)
[2010-06-07 18:42] upgraded nfs-utils (1.2.2-2 -> 1.2.2-3)
[2010-06-07 18:44] * check /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh, then relogin or "source" the file
[2010-06-07 18:44] * see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice
[2010-06-07 18:44] how to use extensions, e.g. for spell checking
[2010-06-07 18:44] see /usr/lib/openoffice/share/extension/install what
[2010-06-07 18:44] is shipped with this package
[2010-06-07 18:44] * make sure you have installed a ttf font (ttf-dejavu recommended)
[2010-06-07 18:44] upgraded openoffice-base (3.2.0-3 -> 3.2.1-1)
[2010-06-07 18:44] upgraded perl-devel-symdump (2.08-2 -> 2.08-3)
[2010-06-07 18:44] upgraded qtcurve-kde4 (1.4.2-1 -> 1.4.3-1)
[2010-06-07 18:44] upgraded sudo (1.7.2p6-1 -> 1.7.2p7-1)
[2010-06-07 18:44] upgraded virtualbox-additions (3.2.0-1 -> 3.2.2-1)
[2010-06-07 18:48] upgraded ttf-dejavu (2.30-2 -> 2.30-2)
[2010-06-07 18:48] Updating font cache... done.
[2010-06-07 18:48] installed artwiz-fonts (1.3-5)
[2010-06-07 18:48] extracting fonts... done.
[2010-06-07 18:48] rebuilding font cache... done.
[2010-06-07 18:48] upgraded ttf-ms-fonts (2.0-3 -> 2.0-3)
[2010-06-07 22:24] upgraded kdesdk-kate (4.4.4-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 22:28] installed kdebase-kwrite (4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 22:30] upgraded kdelibs (4.4.4-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 22:31] upgraded kdebase-runtime (4.4.4-1 -> 4.4.4-1)
[2010-06-07 23:35] synchronizing package lists
[2010-06-07 23:35] starting full system upgrade
[2010-06-07 23:43] installed gdb (7.1-2)
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 08 June 2010, 07:11 GMT
Works fine here. Do you have any console output when starting kate? Check if your system is fully up to date.
Comment by Martin Thomas (dlandmj) - Tuesday, 08 June 2010, 08:17 GMT
Don't know why, but Kate and Kwrite open fine this morning. Something where the machine had to be shut down and restarted before things would be ok?

Yesterday, no messages of any sort when trying to open Kate. When I tried to run the bug report facility, I got the message that the output was valueless.

Yesterday I got
[martin@martin ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
local database is up to date

which I *assume* means that my system is up to date.

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