Bug 243822

Summary: Since KDE-4.4.4 spell checking doesn't work, related system settings empty, even ispell and aspell up to date
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Axel Gerber <a.gerber>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: CLOSED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: normal CC: a.gerber, cfeck
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Axel Gerber 2010-07-07 08:50:15 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) 
OS:                Linux

Since KDE-4.4.4 the spell checking (mainly kmail) doesn't work anymore. Even in the system settings, you can choose languages but the window with available spell checkers is empty. Seems KDE cannot recognize ispell or aspell as being installed.

up to KDE-4.4.3 it worked perfectly.

System is up to date. No more significant changes during those updates. Ispell and aspell including their dictionaries are up to date. 

Same on my netbook which got installed recently, after KDE-4.4.4 launched.

Thanks for all supports

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Spell checker to be selectable in system settings and subsequently work as before until KDE-4.4.3

Portage 2.2_rc67 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9550_@_2.83GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:00:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p7
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r8
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4, 4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -mtune=generic -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -mtune=generic -mssse3 -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="de zh_CN fr zh_TW en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=300"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 audiofile berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm gif gocr gphoto2 gpm gtk hal iconv imagemagick ipv6 jack java jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility laptop lcms libnotify lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ocrad ogg openexr opengl openmp pango pcre pda pdf perl pic png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline reflection scanner sdl semantic-desktop session slang snmp spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcltk tcpd tesseract theora tiff tk truetype undicode unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de zh_CN fr zh_TW en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga nv nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS
Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2010-07-07 19:17:59 UTC 
I see no changes in 4.4.3 to 4.4.4 that could affect spell checking. Can you confirm that going back to 4.4.3 fixes the issue?
Comment 2 Axel Gerber 2010-07-08 07:03:15 UTC 
Dear Christoph,

thanks for your fast feedback.

In the mean time I found, just typing "aspell" in the line above the field for the spell checkers (systemsettings) and than click "add", solved the problem. Just cannot understand why the field was empty which wasn't before. Also not clear why not auto-recognized (since I never typed that before).

Prior manually typing the buttons for "add" (and others) where marked inactive, hence the idea wasn't obvious to simply type it in rather than add something from a selection (as for GUIs usual).

Sorry cannot go back to 4.4.3 since already deleted from Gentoo repository.

Since it works again, I mark it as closed with the hope that above 'questions' still go somewhere useful :-)