Konqueror problem with Shockwave Flash plugin.

[Richlion]

Thanks Wolfden,

another silly question (fogive me), I also wanted to remove the kerberos support from my /etc/make.conf file, so should I remove all these :
kerberos (twice)
-kerberos

I don't know what is the difference between -kerberos and kerberos. I see that the support names are with or without the dash.

I also tried do lookup the name in a file:
/usr/portage/profiles/use.desc
but cannot find what is "weather" for. Is there any place describing all the USE values?

Thanks for helping.

Richard

[wolfden]

- is do without

so -kerberos = no kerberos

[Fitzcarraldo]

Is there any place describing all the USE values?

Have a look at the following:

http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml

http://gentoo-portage.com/USE

http://www.gentoo.de/dyn/use-index.xml

[Fitzcarraldo]

I also wanted to remove the kerberos support from my /etc/make.conf file, so should I remove all these :
kerberos (twice)
-kerberos

I would suggest deleting both instances of "kerberos" and leaving the instance of "-kerberos" but, if you want to make sure it is not used in any builds, also check in /etc/portage/package.use too in case "kerberos" is included in the local USE flags for any packages. Those local USE flags take precedence over the global USE flags in /etc/make.conf ( see the Precedence section on the following page: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=2 ).

[Richlion]

Thanks to you All,

this Gentoo documentation is really great.
What I tried yesterday from this site :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=2
is this , which caused some errors:
emerge --update --deep --newuse world
The problem that apeared were some messages that lead me to problems with updating the things in /usr/portage. I once tried to remove all files from that location to do a proper emerge --sync and that worked, but yesterday I was not be able to remove one folder, because I had a rather silly message:
Segmentation fault.
Does this happen very often?
I checked a whole lot of threads, finally I got that one subfolder removed today and emerge --sync again works today. So my question is, is it safe to do this update?

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emerge --update --deep --newuse world


Is this what you guys do when you update the /etc/make.conf? Should I expect any problems?

Once again many thanks for all the help.

Regards,
Richard.

[Richlion]

Hi Fitzcarraldo,

many thanks to all your suggestions. I've been through all the pages over the last weekend and today. I modified my /etc/make.conf file and added your hints into /etc/portage/package.use.
I also tried this command :

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emerge --update --deep --newuse world


from the help page:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=2

I only ran into some silly problems and after a few hours of digging into the messages I tried do remove all folders from /usr/portage. But then I got stuck on removing one subfolder with a message:
Segmentation fault.
Funny thing, I could only remove the contents after a reboot. THen I reran emerge --sync.

So I was wondering if this is really a good idea to run this:

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emerge --update --deep --newuse world


I just wanted to know if anyone has ran into any problems? What does that command do? Does it recompile everything, when I see the word "world", I am bit freeked out
So now I am worried what will happen again.

Next, this hint worked:

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USE="nls gtk quicktime divx gmedia realmedia wmp" emerge mplayerplug-in


However, I cannot emerge the Konqueror, I tried it twice, to no avail. It fails due to the following errors:

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kaction.cpp: In destructor 'virtual KAction::~KAction()':
kaction.cpp:217: warning: 'unplugAccel' is deprecated (declared at kaction.h:387)
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1/temp/ccusHyYc.s: Assembler messages:
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1/temp/ccusHyYc.s:27046: Error: bad register name `%%bp)'
make[3]: *** [kactionclasses.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
 *
 * ERROR: kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *               ebuild.sh, line   46:  Called src_compile
 *             environment, line 4152:  Called kde_src_compile
 *             environment, line 2813:  Called kde_src_compile 'src_compile'
 *             environment, line 2934:  Called kde_src_compile 'src_compile' 'all' 'myconf'
 *             environment, line 2930:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                   emake || diefunc "$FUNCNAME" "$LINENO" "$?" "died running emake, $FUNCNAME:make"
 *  The die message:
 *   died running emake, kde_src_compile:make
 *
 * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant.
 * A complete build log is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1/temp/build.log'.
 * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1/temp/environment'.
 *


To be honest, I don't know why this is happening, I am a bit confused. So I am still running Konqueror 3.5.7. I am just wondering, is this a temporary Portage glitch, or some developement issues, or am I still not too good at using Portage/emerge...

I can watch all the news and videos, the only problem is that Konqueror crashes when I close it. It's not that it's a big pain , just a little one

Thanks for all your patience...
Richard.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I did recommend back in post #7 not to do a world update. Also, why did you delete all the directories in /usr/portage/?

Before you do anything else, do the following as root in a Terminal window:

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# emerge --sync
# layman -S
# emerge portage

See the warning at the bottom of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=1 regarding emerge --sync, and I recommend you consult the two Web pages referenced below and the SL wiki in order to find out what the above three commands do.

The explanation of what the emerge world command and its various options do is given in the Gentoo Handbook:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=1
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... t=2&chap=2

and see also various pages in the SL wiki.

Then I'd leave well alone until you have used SL some more, built ('emerged') a few packages and learnt more about how Portage works. Now you have tidied up /etc/make.conf and added some missing global USE flags you should have less trouble emerging packages. A couple of other things I recommend you read up on in the Gentoo Handbook are the Portage commands revdep-rebuild (with and without the -X option) and equery.

If you want to investigate further why konqueror is crashing then launch it from the command line rather than from the GUI, and see what error messages, if any, are displayed when you quit:

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$ konqueror

[Fitzcarraldo]

Just in case anyone arrives in this thread by using the SL Forum Search facility, the latest version of Adobe Flash does not work with Konqueror, only Gecko-based browsers such as Firefox:

viewtopic.php?f=32&t=12230

Work-around at the moment is to revert to earlier version that works with both Konqueror and Firefox:

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# emerge -av =netscape-flash-9.0.48.0-r1
# emerge -av =nspluginwrapper-0.9.9.91.4

N.B. Irrespective of the above problem with Flash 9.0.115, if Flash does not work I've found that a re-emerge of nspluginwrapper often does the trick.