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#1 Desktop and Multimedia » Audacity audio recording from KDE » 2024-02-27 10:42:03

devian
Replies: 1

Does anyone know how to get Audacity recording from KDE? Whatever recording device I choose it records a blank signal (no noise or anything present, just zeroes).

(Seems to work on normal Debian FWIW)

#2 Installation » Upgrade to Daedalus from Chimera was incredibly easy! » 2023-12-23 23:55:43

devian
Replies: 2

At the risk of polluting this forum with a useless post, I just wanted to say wholeheartedly that the upgrade process was almost flawless. I only had to do "apt install -f" once and there were just 2 /etc config file issues (due to my own edits of these files) which were easy to resolve.

A thousand times easier than my recent Debian upgrade which failed and resulted in me having to abort it and install from anew.

Well done Devuan people! This is how Linux upgrading should be!

#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » External monitor on laptop results in high CPU usage for Xorg » 2022-06-09 17:06:06

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Entering the error message into a search engine throws up https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425271 so this is a known bug.

The suggested workaround is given here but it's rubbish.

Nice spot. I didn't come across that page.

#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » External monitor on laptop results in high CPU usage for Xorg » 2022-06-09 14:42:08

.xsession_errors has 400,000 lines of this:

Container window visible, stack below

!!!

I think I'm happy with doing killall for now.

#5 Desktop and Multimedia » External monitor on laptop results in high CPU usage for Xorg » 2022-06-09 12:52:36

devian
Replies: 4

As soon as I attach an external HDMI monitor to my laptop, the CPU usage for Xorg jumps to 100% and stays there.  I have KDE running and all widgets and GUI applications closed.

Edit: xembedsniproxy also suddenly has high CPU usage as soon as the monitor is plugged in so I suspect this is the culprit.

Second edit: a workaround to solve this is simply "killall xembedsniproxy"

Third edit: this removes all my application system tray icons (not normal KDE ones) but I can do "wmsystemtray --non-wmaker --bgcolor white" to see them appear in a new window.

This is a Lenovo laptop with Intel graphics. What info do I need to provide to help debug this?  Thanks.

#6 Desktop and Multimedia » SEGFAULT with i965_dri.so » 2022-05-17 12:28:01

devian
Replies: 0

I am seeing a crash in i965_dri.so while running FreeCAD Appimage. This is the command line output:

$ FreeCAD-asm3-Daily-Conda-Py3-Qt5-20220511-glibc2.12-x86_64.AppImage 
/tmp/.mount_FreeCAipF3cg
FreeCAD 0.20, Libs: 2022.511R26244 +4790 (Git)
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
#0  /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3bd60) [0x7f0646239d60]
#1  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x14c7fa) [0x7f06374097fa]
#2  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x1499ff) [0x7f06374069ff]
#3  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x1e686e) [0x7f06374a386e]
#4  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x1e6ffb) [0x7f06374a3ffb]
#5  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x2206fc) [0x7f06374dd6fc]
#6  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x2155ee) [0x7f06374d25ee]
#7  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_dri.so(+0x47b8de) [0x7f06377388de]
#8  0x7f0648a12515 in NaviCubeShared::drawNaviCube(SoCamera*, bool, int, bool) from /tmp/.mount_FreeCAipF3cg/usr/bin/../lib/libFreeCADGui.so+0x15f5
#9  0x7f0648a12816 in NaviCubeImplementation::drawNaviCube(bool) from /tmp/.mount_FreeCAipF3cg/usr/bin/../lib/libFreeCADGui.so+0x46
#10  0x7f06489dc9b5 in Gui::View3DInventorViewer::renderScene() from /tmp/.mount_FreeCAipF3cg/usr/bin/../lib/libFreeCADGui.so+0x515
etc

Apparently this does not occur on normal Debian. Is there a way I can install the debug version of i965_dri.so to find out more about the crash?

Do any Devuan experts have any suggestions how to fix this or how I can investigate?

Many thanks.

#7 Desktop and Multimedia » KDE Discover does not allow software update checking to be disabled » 2021-12-24 12:56:08

devian
Replies: 0

I would like to disable automatic checking for updates which KDE does through the Discover application and presents a pop up tray icon when updates are available. I want to do this manually.

There is an apparent bug in that if I do Alt-F2 and run Discover, I find that clicking on "Software Sources" and entering my password, does absolutely nothing. Please see image below:

YlBgev5.png

The final answer on this page describes what I should see:

https://superuser.com/questions/267302/ … kde-debian

Namely:

"Once you have entered your administrator password, Discover's software sources and settings window will open. This window has a tab called Updates."

Anyone know another way to disable update checking in KDE? Thanks.

#8 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot mount exfat » 2021-12-15 22:41:03

ralph.ronnquist wrote:

Essentially it looks like you sit with software that "expects" exfat to be a built-in filesystem (as in beowulf-backports and later), and a kernel where it's not (as in beowulf and before).

The story seems to be that:

a) exfat is a built-in filesystem for 5.10 kernels but it wasn't built-in for the 4.9 kernels.

b) Before it became built-in, the mount command was supported by the program /sbin/mount.exfat provided by the exfat-fuse package. That program was abandoned when the filesystem became built-in.

Damn, you're right. I checked /boot/config and my kernel has:

CONFIG_EXFAT_FS is not set

Case closed.

Thanks for all the help.

#9 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot mount exfat » 2021-12-15 21:36:14

rolfie wrote:

Not any file system on any USB stick will found on /dev/sd(X), it always will be on /dev/sd(X)1 or higher.

Use any stick with FAT32, you have to mount it with /dev/sd(X)1.

rolfie

I just created a filesystem on /dev/sdb with vfat and had no problems mounting it. vfat is the same as fat32 is it not?

#10 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot mount exfat » 2021-12-15 20:56:13

hevidevi wrote:

maybe try this command ?

# mount -t exfat /dev/sdc /mnt/

if that doesnt work trying installing exfatprogs and use command like so.

# mount.exfat-fuse /dev/sdc /mnt

Using my newly partitioned USB stick that has 1 partition:

# mount -t exfat  /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'.
# mount.exfat-fuse /dev/sdb1 /mnt
FUSE exfat 1.3.0

Thank you - at least I can now mount exfat.

The question then becomes, why does the mount command fail but mount.exfat-fuse work?

#11 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot mount exfat » 2021-12-15 20:53:23

rolfie wrote:
devian wrote:
# mount  /dev/sdc /mnt/
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'.

This is obvious. You can't have an exfat file system at /dev/sdc, at the most you'll find a partition table there.

Try to use:

# mount  /dev/sdc1 /mnt/

rolfie

There is no partition table on this drive.

I did a test with another USB stick:

[fdisk]
Disk /dev/sdb: 1.86 GiB, 1993342976 bytes, 3893248 sectors
Disk model: Flash Disk      
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1        2048 3893247 3891200  1.9G 83 Linux

Filesystem/RAID signature on partition 1 will be wiped.

Command (m for help): wq
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

# mkfs.exfat /dev/sdb1
mkexfatfs 1.3.0
Creating... done.
Flushing... done.
File system created successfully.

# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'.

#12 Desktop and Multimedia » Cannot mount exfat » 2021-12-15 12:02:45

devian
Replies: 9

I have the fuse module loaded and have installed "exfat-fuse exfat-utils" yet still have problems mounting an exfat USB drive.

What are my options to debug this? Thanks.

# lsmod | grep fuse
fuse                  147456  0
# mount  /dev/sdc /mnt/
mount: /mnt: unknown filesystem type 'exfat'.

#13 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » No audio in KDE after dist-upgrade to Devuan 3.1 » 2021-02-24 21:18:42

Fixed by uninstalling timidity.

apt-get purge timidity

Sigh.

#14 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » No audio in KDE after dist-upgrade to Devuan 3.1 » 2021-02-24 20:27:43

I get this:

3069 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog

I read the release notes again. I do not have this file:

/etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

debian-pulseaudio-config-override is installed.

If I enter alsamixer, I see the default soundcard is a dummy device. If I select the intel soundcard, suddenly I get all the expected sliders. That said, I still get no audio.

# pactl list short sinks
0       auto_null       module-null-sink.c      s16le 2ch 44100Hz       SUSPENDED

#15 Desktop and Multimedia » No audio in KDE after dist-upgrade to Devuan 3.1 » 2021-02-24 17:20:43

devian
Replies: 3

As title, my audio is no longer working since a recent upgrade. In my KDE system settings I have a "Dummy output" but that is it. My mixer has "master" control and nothing else - usually it has about 10 different sliders. Please could someone help me out?

Happy to provide more info as required but I like to think this is not a unique problem to me. Thanks.

#16 Desktop and Multimedia » KDE unable to associate with solvespace (.slvs) files » 2020-12-07 18:48:30

devian
Replies: 0

I have success in setting the default application for many filetypes but not .slvs which is a solvespace file.

Here is some debugging investigation:

$ xdg-mime query filetype mysolvespacefile.slvs 
application/x-solvespace
$ xdg-mime query default application/x-solvespace
<blank>
$ kbuildsycoca5
kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Service type not found: "application/x-solvespace"
$ ktraderclient5 --mimetype application/x-solvespace
mimetype is : application/x-solvespace
kf5.kservice.services: KMimeTypeTrader: mimeType "application/x-solvespace" not found
got 0 offers.

Despite having an entry for solvespace in

~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
~/.config/mimeapps.list 
~/.kde/share/config/mimeapps.list

KDE is unable to find the mimetype. I was following this thread to try to get an answer. Even strace did not seem to yield any useful info:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … ssociation

If anyone has seen this I'd be grateful to hear back. I am tempted to say it is a KDE bug.

#17 Re: Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-10 18:12:40

It's certainly possible that the bash-completion package worked differently in the past and so your old ~/.bashrc doesn't work with it now.

Okay, let's go with that then. Even Debian has issues when you upgrade between versions as opposed to doing an installation from fresh.

#18 Re: Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-10 18:07:58

Yes, the bash-completion setup code exists in /etc/skel/.bashrc. I created a new user and yes, the correct code is in their bashrc.

I admit defeat - all I will say is I think that these issues arose because I have been using Devuan for a while so gone through at least one upgrade cycle.

Is it possible that in the previous major release of Devuan these problems I mentioned were present and have been carried across to my current setup?

#19 Re: Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-10 17:46:45

I do not have anything related to bash-completion in my .profile or .bashrc

I note that on Debian it does automatically insert the code you quoted into .bashrc when you install the package.

What a strange issue...

#20 Re: Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-10 17:30:13

I don't have that in my .profile file. Should I have it in there do you think?

I did

apt-get install --reinstall bash-completion

but there is still nothing in .profile.

#21 Re: Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-10 17:15:30

Yes, if I ctrl-alt-f1, login and try tabbing out commands then completion works fine.

Uncomment which section?

Thanks

#22 Other Issues » bash-completion not enabled by default after installation » 2020-11-09 11:36:44

devian
Replies: 10

As title, I've installed bash-completion and finding that it does not do autocomplete with git. e.g.

git chec***tab***

Then nothing. Same for

apt-get inst***tab***

I note that this is solved by doing

. /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/git

or

. /etc/bash_completion

but why is this not setup by default when you install the bash-completion package? Surely one of these scripts should automatically be run when opening bash?

#24 Other Issues » Bash does not parse config files like bash_profile correctly. » 2020-11-04 11:30:50

devian
Replies: 2

According to https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/ … rtup-Files

"When Bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile, in that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that exists and is readable."

I have no .bash_profile or .bash_login. I only have ,profile (and also .bashrc which *does* get parsed for different reasons) however I am finding that bash does not source this file when started.

Perhaps I should file this somewhere as a bug?
Cheers

#25 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » KDE mixer doesn't display devices after upgrade to Beowulf [SOLVED] » 2020-06-08 13:37:41

Thanks. I tried out both options but volumeicon-alsa is much better as it allows my hard buttons to be used.

I just run volumeicon at login time and everything works perfectly.

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