Version:           1.60 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33) running on Fedora Core 8, x86_64, Dell D830 Latitude notebook
OS:                Linux

have been running the FC8 packaged version of kst (1.5.0) on multi-column ascii data files with no trouble.

removed the packaged FC8 kst with rpm -e.

downloaded source for kst and compiled it, no errors, installed to /usr/local, created /etc/ld.so.conf.d config files, ran ldconfig.

kst datasource files appear in /usr/local/lib64/kde3, including kstdata_ascii.{so,la}, various kst libraries in /usr/local/lib64

When I run kst-1.6.0 with the same command line options as before on the same data files (e.g. kst -x 1 -y 3 -y 5 data3&), kst comes up and paints x-y axes with both ranges 0.0 to 1.0 but plots no curves. I get the red alert icon at the lower right-hand portion of the screen. I click on it, and see this (log tab):

(blue disc)2008-04-30 20:06 Scanning for data-source plugins.
(blue disc)2008-04-30 20:06 Scanning for data-object plugins.
(blue disc)2008-04-30 20:06 Scanning for data-source plugins.
(blue disc)2008-04-30 20:06 Failed to load file 'data3'.

The "data sources" tab display is empty.

The "Build Information" tab shows Kst version 1.6.0(EV)

If I click the "Email debugging information" button, the application hangs. (I don't have Kmail installed, but I do have an alternative mail client selected under Kcontrol->KDE Components->Component Chooser->Email Client. Dunno what that's about, but it's a *different* problem, I assume.

The first few lines of the data3 file above are:

1 1 1 1 1
2 1 2 1 2
3 1 3 1 3
4 1 4 1 4
5 1 5 1 5
6 1 6 1 6
7 1 7 1 7
8 1 8 1 8
9 1 9 1 9
10 1 10 1 10
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I now mv the kst-1.6.0 binaries and libraries out of the way, reinstall the x86_64 kst-1.5.0 package from the FC8 repository, and run (FC8) kst-1.5.0.

Kst displays the data as I expect.

When I go to the kst debug panel, I see in the log tab:

2008-04-30 20:21 Scanning for data-source plugins.
2008-04-30 20:21 Scanning for data-object plugins.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Periodogram.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Cross Power Spectrum.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Chop.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Bin.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Syncbin.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Cumulative sum (integral).
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Effective Bandwidth.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Binned Map.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Statistics.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Generic filter.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Phase.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Fixed-step differentiation.
2008-04-30 20:21 Loaded data-object plugin Shift.
(all lines preceded by blue discs)

and in the Data Sources directory I see:

ASCII File Reader
DirFile Reader
Frame Reader
Indirect File Reader
qimagesource
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I've googled for similar problems online, no joy. Haven't been able to find a forum or users' group dedicated to kst, so here I am.

Any tips, pointers to fora or user groups, whatever would be appreciated. I imagine this is something *really* simple, but I haven't been able to find any guidance that would tell me how to debug the problem.