My KAlarm version: Version 2.11.2-5ak KDE Frameworks 5.15.0 Qt 5.4.2, kompiliert gegen 5.4.2) Das xcbFenstersystem My OS: Ubuntu 15.10, 64 Bit My version of KAlarm starts at Login which is fine. Only, each time I am disturbed by the following message: “Time zones are not accessible: KAlarm will use the UTC time zone. (The KDE time zone service is not available: check that ktimezoned is installed.)” I have activated the option: “Don't show this message again” but it still continues showing up every time. I don't mind if KAlarm uses the UTC time zone. Nevertheless I would be very grateful if you could let me know how I can get rid of the warning message once and for all. Further information: -The set time zone in my Ubuntu system settings is “Berlin” and that is correct. -I do not have any service or process called timezone or ktimezone running or set in my OS. -In my KAlarm under Settings → Configure KAlarm → Time and Date → Time zone, the only option available is UTC. -I do not have any Plasma workspace installed on my System. Thank you for investigating this bug. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Kalarm 2.Configure the settings so that Kalarm starts at login 3.Reboot your OS 4.When the Kalarm Timezone warning appears: Check the box so that the Kalarm Timezone warning will not be shown again 5.Reboot your OS and see that the warning is there once again Actual Results: The following warning message is displayed: "Time zones are not accessible: KAlarm will use the UTC time zone. (The KDE time zone service is not available: check that ktimezoned is installed." There is a box to be checked if one does not wish to see the above message again. Checking the box does not change anything. Expected Results: I would expect that activating the option "not to see this message again" should put a definite end to the permanent showing up of this warning each time a boot my OS.
On Ubuntu or Debian, you need to install plasma-workspace package to fix this. The relevant file which is missing is /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kded_ktimezoned.so (substitute your computer's architecture for 'x86_64-linux-gnu' if it doesn't have an AMD64 type processor). Clearly, there should be a package dependency for the KF5 version of kalarm on plasma-workspace (or alternatively the kded_ktimezoned.so file may need to be split out into another package). This is something that needs to be fixed by the Ubuntu packagers (and probably the Debian experimental packagers also).
This has been reported to Debian - see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=822061.