(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***) Package: kword Version: 1.2 beta 1 (using KDE 3.0.0 ) Severity: normal Installed from: RedHat RPMs Compiler: g++ --version ==> 2.96 OS: Linux OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified Whenever I try to start up a KOffice application (including kword kspread etc) I get a message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy This is for a KOffice 1.2 beta 1 that I installed from sources into a nonstandard location (~/Trials/koffice) using ./configure --prefix=... But the same thing happened when I installed the mandrake RPM's. My system is a redhat 7.2 with KDE 3.0 installed from redhat RPM's. (Submitted via bugs.kde.org)
On Monday 29 April 2002 08:55 stoledo@tau.ac.il wrote: > Package: kword > Version: 1.2 beta 1 (using KDE 3.0.0 ) > Severity: normal > Installed from: RedHat RPMs > Compiler: g++ --version ==> 2.96 > OS: Linux > OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified > > Whenever I try to start up a KOffice application (including kword kspread etc) I get a message: > Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy That warning itself is harmless but it means the app doesn't start up at all for another reason - most often an installation problem. > This is for a KOffice 1.2 beta 1 that I installed from sources into a nonstandard location (~/Trials/koffice) using ./configure --prefix=... That's fine but you need to tell KDE about this dir. Edit /etc/kderc or set KDEDIRS see details in http://www.koffice.org/install-source.phtml > But the same thing happened when I installed the mandrake RPM's. On a RedHat system ... no doubt it doesn't work I think ;) -- David FAURE david@mandrakesoft.com faure@kde.org http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/ http://www.koffice.org/ KDE Making The Future of Computing Available Today
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 15:33 Sivan Toledo wrote: > Thanks David works like a charm now Ok closing. > (even on a RedHat system :-) Heh that was only meant as an answer to "I tried installing Mandrake RPMS" ;) -- David FAURE david@mandrakesoft.com faure@kde.org http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/ Contributing to: http://www.konqueror.org/ http://www.koffice.org/ KDE Making The Future of Computing Available Today
Thanks David works like a charm now (even on a RedHat system :-) The bidi support works very well (as it does now in kmail konqueror and to a significant extent also in korganizer). I will report some bugs/wishes in the near future as I encounter them. Sivan On Monday 29 April 2002 08:23 David Faure wrote: > On Monday 29 April 2002 08:55 stoledo@tau.ac.il wrote: > > Package: kword > > Version: 1.2 beta 1 (using KDE 3.0.0 ) > > Severity: normal > > Installed from: RedHat RPMs > > Compiler: g++ --version ==> 2.96 > > OS: Linux > > OS/Compiler notes: Not Specified > > > > Whenever I try to start up a KOffice application (including kword > > kspread etc) I get a message: Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource > > busy > > That warning itself is harmless but it means the app doesn't start up at > all for another reason - most often an installation problem. > > > This is for a KOffice 1.2 beta 1 that I installed from sources into a > > nonstandard location (~/Trials/koffice) using ./configure --prefix=... > > That's fine but you need to tell KDE about this dir. > Edit /etc/kderc or set KDEDIRS see details in > http://www.koffice.org/install-source.phtml > > > But the same thing happened when I installed the mandrake RPM's. > > On a RedHat system ... no doubt it doesn't work I think ;)
I have the same problems with RedHat 8.0 trying to use Koffice. I downloaded your script and have attached the output. some of my users would be very happy if a solution could be found. $ cat /etc/redhat-release; /tmp/flappa.sh Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche) Now looking by filename Looking under applnk dir: /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/applnk-redhat/ Looking under applnk dir: /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/ ***** Native mimetype not found ! /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/applnk-redhat/ /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/ Service Types dir /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/servicetypes/ Service Types dir /usr/share/servicetypes/ Found /usr/share/servicetypes/kofficepart.desktop [PropertyDef::X-KDE-NativeMimeType]
Subject: Re: "mutex destroy failed" message on startup Once again: this is a _RedHat_ packaging bug, you should be bugging them instead of us. But I can give a hand so that we finally know the fix (someone mentionned it, but not on bugs.kde.org, so I forgot it now). On Friday 25 April 2003 09:42, you wrote: > Looking under applnk dir: /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/applnk-redhat/ > Looking under applnk dir: /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/ > ***** Native mimetype not found ! > /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/applnk-redhat/ > /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/ Where's your kword.desktop file? Of course the fix is to tell KDE about the dir where it is - or to copy all the .desktop files from KOffice into /var/lib/menu/kde/Application > Service Types dir /mn/marduk/drift-u1/terjekv/.kde/share/servicetypes/ > Service Types dir /usr/share/servicetypes/ > Found /usr/share/servicetypes/kofficepart.desktop > [PropertyDef::X-KDE-NativeMimeType] Any /usr/share/applnk/ maybe?
my apologies for bugging you instead of RedHat. I've tried bugging them a few times without getting any help whatsoever. and thank for for the very swift reply! $ locate kword.desktop /usr/share/applications/kword.desktop /usr/share/mimelnk/application/x-kword.desktop /usr/share/services/kprkword.desktop the only things in /usr/share/applnk/ are: $ ls /usr/share/applnk/ Multimedia Settings somewhere along the line consistency seems have left the building. the best advice I could get from searching RedHats bugzilla was from than@redhat.com: # please try to download kde 3.1.1 and koffice-1.2.1 from ftp.kde.org. It should # fix this problem <url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86479 >, that comment closed the bug. of course, grabbing the KDE-created builds will break BlueCurve and probably other things that our users have been getting used to over the last three weeks since we had to upgrade to RedHat 8.0. sigh. anyhow, thank you for great products, it's just extremly frustrating that distributions feel the need to break it for you.
Subject: Re: "mutex destroy failed" message on startup > /usr/share/applications/kword.desktop That's the one, assuming it has the X-KDE-NativeMimeType line in it. Try copying it to /var/lib/menu/kde/Applications/, that should fix it for KWord. (If it does, you might want to copy all the .desktop files for koffice apps) > of course, grabbing the KDE-created builds will break BlueCurve and probably > other things that our users have been getting used to over the last three weeks > since we had to upgrade to RedHat 8.0. sigh. Hmm, not if you only upgrade KOffice, keeping kdelibs & kdebase unchanged. But more .desktop file problems will appear then, I think (e.g. KOffice not appearing in the menus anymore, unless you move files around again....) > anyhow, thank you for great > products, it's just extremly frustrating that distributions feel the need to > break it for you. Indeed.
thank you! I symlinked over some of the Koffice-related .desktop-files (kword, kspread, kpresenter and kontour so far) and it works. well, kword decided to segfault for some reason after closing koshell, but I'll debug that later. again, thank you! I'm guessing I'll have one very happy user after rdist has done its job. :-)