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KDE died on me

by vze284qe＠verizon.net

Hello, KDE 3.5.9 died on me. I installed some updates via the adept updater and after rebooting, I get dropped into run-level 3 (which I actually prefer). When I type startkde, which is in /usr/bin, I get the following errors: Xsetroot : unable to open display '' Xset : unable to open display "" Xsetroot : unable to open display '' Startkde : Starting up. . . Startkde : Running kpersonalizer. . . Kwin : X server can not connect to Kpersonalizer can not connect to X server : Kpersonalizer can not connect to X server : Kpersonalizer can not connect to X server : If I type startx instead, the gnome window manager starts up fine. Any ideas??? I really prefer KDE. Thanks, -- -Chuck

June 19, 2008

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by Israel Ellner

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June 18, 2008

Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Brett Russ

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Chuck Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:20:08AM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: > > Thanks Mike, looks like it is related to the -x argument: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg04655.html > ... > > Chuck, > > If it were rounding error I should still be able to make direct > comparisons > > between the results, as long as they all used the -m argument. > > In my tests, with or without -x didn't make a difference: > > >du -smxc yum jigdo > 1 yum > 48 jigdo > 48 total > >du -smc yum jigdo > 1 yum > 48 jigdo > 48 total Your version of du does not have the bug that I was writing about. I believe versions 6.1 - 6.6 were affected. The issue I had was that the second file/dir argument onwards was not properly tallied. So, using your example, jigdo would show a size of 1 if it were run as: >du -smxc yum jigdo but if you changed the command line to: >du -smxc jigdo yum Then jigdo would show the correct size of 48. -BR

June 18, 2008

Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Chuck Anderson

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:20:08AM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: > Thanks Mike, looks like it is related to the -x argument: > http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg04655.html ... > Chuck, > If it were rounding error I should still be able to make direct comparisons > between the results, as long as they all used the -m argument. In my tests, with or without -x didn't make a difference: >du -smxc yum jigdo 1 yum 48 jigdo 48 total >du -smc yum jigdo 1 yum 48 jigdo 48 total But leaving off the -m, the total is the correct sum of the two directories: >du -sxc yum jigdo 416 yum 48660 jigdo 49076 total I think that du -mc is adding the sizes first, then converting to 1 MiB blocks, therefore showing the approximation error in the total. In the -m case, 416 KiB rounds to 1 MiB, 48660 KiB rounds to 48 MiB, but the total isn't calculated as 1 + 48, but rather as 416 KiB + 48660 KiB = 49076 KiB, 49076 KiB / 1024 = 47.92 MiB, which rounded off becomes 48 MiB.

June 18, 2008

Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Brett Russ

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:08 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> wrote: > this has come up on the gnu coreutils list in the past iirc (so try > searching > their mail archives). i think it was one part bug and one part unexpected > for the user. make sure you're using coreutils-6.11. once you have that, > i > think the way symlinks are counted may not be as you expect. > Thanks Mike, looks like it is related to the -x argument: http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg04655.html I've confirmed it's fixed in coreutils-6.9-43, but haven't yet checked on my home machine where I saw the problem. Pretty sure it's the same thing though. Chuck, If it were rounding error I should still be able to make direct comparisons between the results, as long as they all used the -m argument. Thanks, BR

June 18, 2008

Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Chuck Anderson

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:42:18AM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: > Can anyone explain why du (which advertises the ability to evaluate N > file/dir arguments) seems to only be accurate for the first provided > argument? See the following: > > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp > 60 tmp > 60 total > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp bin > 60 tmp > 1 bin > 60 total Try without the -m argument. You may be seeing round off error.

June 18, 2008

Re: [Wlug] inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Mike Frysinger

On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Brett Russ wrote: > Can anyone explain why du (which advertises the ability to evaluate N > file/dir arguments) seems to only be accurate for the first provided > argument? See the following: > > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp > 60 tmp > 60 total > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp bin > 60 tmp > 1 bin > 60 total > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc bin > 9 bin > 9 total > brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc bin tmp > 9 bin > 1 tmp > 9 total this has come up on the gnu coreutils list in the past iirc (so try searching their mail archives). i think it was one part bug and one part unexpected for the user. make sure you're using coreutils-6.11. once you have that, i think the way symlinks are counted may not be as you expect. -mike

June 18, 2008

inconsistent results with du and multiple arguments

by Brett Russ

Can anyone explain why du (which advertises the ability to evaluate N file/dir arguments) seems to only be accurate for the first provided argument? See the following: brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp 60 tmp 60 total brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc tmp bin 60 tmp 1 bin 60 total brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc bin 9 bin 9 total brett@spider:/> sudo du -smxc bin tmp 9 bin 1 tmp 9 total

June 18, 2008

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by John Spencer

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June 17, 2008

REMINDER: Meeting NEXT week

by Andy Stewart

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 HI gang, This is an early reminder about our upcoming WLUG meeting on Thursday, June 19th, 2008. Our guest speaker will be our very own Frank Sweetser, who will be talking about GEGL, the Generic Graphics Library (http://gegl.org) I will bring a couple of books for the raffle: Running Xen, Prentice Hall 2008 Refactoring HTML, Addison-Wesley 2008 Afterwards, we'll go out for some food and fun! Please also note that our WLUG BBQ is coming up in July! The current date is Thursday, July 17th. We'll talk more about this during the June meeting. See ya there! Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group (http://www.wlug.org) Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group (http://linux.meetup.com/393) Amateur Radio: KB1OIQ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFITyDKHl0iXDssISsRAv9zAKCEg/YHCXGbcB+tcsJp3dEgvS5/KgCcCzh4 vh7L2YpoZuKkU5M6gGqF2oA= =wpGA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

June 11, 2008