> hi, > > first of all I'd like to say how much I apprechiate you folks taking up > the task of maintaining and keeping kde 3.5x spirit alive! I love this > desktop and would be very happy to see new versions without the kde4.x > bloat overhead. > > I've struggeled to compile trinity (tqinterface, kdelibs, kdebase) from > scratch on my gentoo box using the latest svn. However I've got it > compiled but I'm not quite sure if everything is good. Could you please > post some kind of a howto, including dependencies issues. the obsolete > documentation on the kde website won't do. > > Trinity starts up fine however my problem is that the kdesktop seems to > give up on X11 after starting up: > > [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] > [KCrash handler] > #5 0x00007f8c58c39495 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #6 0x00007f8c58c3a8c0 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #7 0x00007f8c58c74ac7 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #8 0x00007f8c58c7a056 in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #9 0x00007f8c58c7edec in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 > #10 0x00007f8c5a56cf34 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > #11 0x00007f8c5a56d32c in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > #12 0x00007f8c5a7c8beb in _XReply () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 > #13 0x00007f8c5a7ad982 in XInternAtom () from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 > #14 0x00007f8c568a0e90 in KBackgroundManager::KBackgroundManager(QWidget*, > KWinModule*) () from /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #15 0x00007f8c568950df in KDesktop::initRoot() () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #16 0x00007f8c568946d1 in KDesktop::KDesktop(bool, bool) () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #17 0x00007f8c568757b0 in kdemain () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/libkdeinit_kdesktop.so > #18 0x00007f8c56b278c8 in kdeinitmain () from > /opt/kde-3.5.12/lib/kde3/kdesktop.so > #19 0x0000000000408f17 in launch(int, char const*, char const*, char > const*, int, char const*, bool, char const*, bool, char const*) () > #20 0x000000000040a426 in handle_launcher_request(int) () > #21 0x000000000040ad86 in handle_requests(int) () > #22 0x000000000040c8da in main () > > Maybe a howto will point to my mistake. Otherwise any help would be very > much apprechiated. > > Best Regards > Nicolas > > Neu: WEB.DE De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! > Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: https://produkte.web.de/go/demail02 I have seen this exact crash before, and though I had it fixed in SVN revision r1172215 (see http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/patches/ for more information on that commit). I am uncertain as to what nofinal does; is it possible that the Gentoo build set the nofinal option? There is a simple workaround available, but when implemented Trinity does not export the desktop background to X11. Tim