Oneiric post installation report: everything is fine (yup, including desktop effects) except for three things:
- No network. This turned out to be my fault. Something like 3 or 4 releases ago Kubuntu shipped with a network manager so broken that it was not possible even to specify a wired fixed IP configuration. I solved that by removing all traces of the kde-network manager and instead defining the raw network config in /etc/networking. Well, turns out that Oneiric comes with a new network manager that you cannot remove as a separate component, but in exchange of that it works for defining most common network settings. But I lost a bit of time until I remembered that my network was not configured via KDE. Once I removed the hand coded /etc/networking stuff I was able to define the network parameters using KDE just fine.
- Nepomuk: strange warning saying that Nepomuk is not enabled. Since I don't use any of it, just going to the KDE control center and disabling the service works. May not work for those that use or need Nepomuk. Seems that is some kind of indexing service for the KDE suite.
- Mail dispatcher agent notification. This one took more time to "fix", and apparently is related to the above. I tried the solutions given in this forum but none of them worked. Finally, following http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=86252 I edited the file in /usr/share/akonadi/agents/maildispatcheragent.desktop and removed the "Autostart" from the X-Akonadi-Capabilities line. No more error notifications so far, maybe I'm being lucky.
Note that the last two solutions above will likely disable the KDE PIM apps (KMail, Kontact, Kopete and I don't know what else) I don't use them, so it is not a big loss for me. What I cannot understand (sorry, bit of a rant) is how these problems can crop in a release candidate and not get fixed before release.
Now, if anyone knows how to clear the akonadi database cleanly, please explain. My ~/.local/share/akonadi is 158 MB in size and clearly I'm not going to use it. And I have a strange feeling that if I just delete the folder it will bite me in the following upgrade, like the networking stuff has done now. Alternatively, does anyone knows of a resource that explains what is this akonadi/nepomuk relationship with the rest of the KDE suite (KMail, Kontact...) in terms that don't require to understand how the whole KDE suite works?
- No network. This turned out to be my fault. Something like 3 or 4 releases ago Kubuntu shipped with a network manager so broken that it was not possible even to specify a wired fixed IP configuration. I solved that by removing all traces of the kde-network manager and instead defining the raw network config in /etc/networking. Well, turns out that Oneiric comes with a new network manager that you cannot remove as a separate component, but in exchange of that it works for defining most common network settings. But I lost a bit of time until I remembered that my network was not configured via KDE. Once I removed the hand coded /etc/networking stuff I was able to define the network parameters using KDE just fine.
- Nepomuk: strange warning saying that Nepomuk is not enabled. Since I don't use any of it, just going to the KDE control center and disabling the service works. May not work for those that use or need Nepomuk. Seems that is some kind of indexing service for the KDE suite.
- Mail dispatcher agent notification. This one took more time to "fix", and apparently is related to the above. I tried the solutions given in this forum but none of them worked. Finally, following http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=86252 I edited the file in /usr/share/akonadi/agents/maildispatcheragent.desktop and removed the "Autostart" from the X-Akonadi-Capabilities line. No more error notifications so far, maybe I'm being lucky.
Note that the last two solutions above will likely disable the KDE PIM apps (KMail, Kontact, Kopete and I don't know what else) I don't use them, so it is not a big loss for me. What I cannot understand (sorry, bit of a rant) is how these problems can crop in a release candidate and not get fixed before release.
Now, if anyone knows how to clear the akonadi database cleanly, please explain. My ~/.local/share/akonadi is 158 MB in size and clearly I'm not going to use it. And I have a strange feeling that if I just delete the folder it will bite me in the following upgrade, like the networking stuff has done now. Alternatively, does anyone knows of a resource that explains what is this akonadi/nepomuk relationship with the rest of the KDE suite (KMail, Kontact...) in terms that don't require to understand how the whole KDE suite works?
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