[Nix-dev] k3b has a runtime dependency on iceauth

Eelco Dolstra e.dolstra at tudelft.nl
Wed Oct 29 17:17:31 CET 2008


Hi,

Bas van Dijk wrote:

> I just successfully emerged (...having trouble not using Gentoo
> terms...) k3b. However it fails to run:
> 
> $ k3b
> kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 19529 result = 0
> mkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
> dcopserver: 'iceauth' not found in path, aborting.
> DCOPServer self-test failed.
> sh: iceauth: command not found
> kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
> ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup DCOP communication.
> 
> Note that I'm not running a full kde desktop just a simple xmonad session.

Right, when sessionType != "kde", iceauth wasn't being installed.

> After emerging (...last time I use it, I swear...) iceauth the problem
> went away. However it should not happen in the first place. I guess
> iceauth should be added as a dependency to k3b.

Thanks, I've just committed a fix.

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