Post-upgrade from 15.04

[Spadge]

A few things I've noticed since upgrading to 15.04:

• Screen settings still crashes the control panel.
• I now have two volume control icons in the systray where I used to have just one.
• Drives still don't automount, and my manual hacking to get them to has been removed in the upgrade.
• Gwenview still doesn't respect Dolphin natural sort order setting.
• Nothing in kwallet was transferred across in the upgrade.

Thanks.

[claydoh]

The two volume icons is an easy one. One is the usual Kmix, and the other is the new plasma widget for volume control. You can disable the new one in your systray settings

What specifically is happening with Kwallet?

[Spadge]

The two volume icons is an easy one. One is the usual Kmix, and the other is the new plasma widget for volume control. You can disable the new one in your systray settings

What specifically is happening with Kwallet?

Thanks for the volume tip. I'll get right on that once I've blacklisted the hdmi sound on the gfx card.

Nothing is happening with kwallet. I have a shiny new empty one after upgrade. I needed to dig out all my email passwords for kmail on first boot.

[Spadge]

• Drives still don't automount, and my manual hacking to get them to has been removed in the upgrade.

Steps at here:

1 Changing the /usr/share/kde4/services/kded/device_automounter.desktop line X-KDE-Kded-phase=1 to X-KDE-Kded-phase=0
2 Starting 'Removable Device Automounter' from the Service Manager. Command: kcmshell4 kcmkded.
3 Picking the right options from the KDE 'Removable Devices module'. Command: kcmshell4 device_automounter_kcm

In case anyone was wondering how to fix it without resorting to fstab.

[claydoh]

Nothing is happening with kwallet. I have a shiny new empty one after upgrade. I needed to dig out all my email passwords for kmail on first boot.

Most people have had the problem of it migrating an empty wallet on every login, sort of the opposite.

Check your ~/.config/kwalletrc and see if it has these lines for some reason

[Migration]
alreadyMigrated=true

[Spadge]

Most people have had the problem of it migrating an empty wallet on every login, sort of the opposite.

Check your ~/.config/kwalletrc and see if it has these lines for some reason

[Migration]
alreadyMigrated=true

It does, and setting it to =false made no difference.

[claydoh]

It does, and setting it to =false made no difference.

Sorry for the delay, work and sleep conspired against me


Simply deleting or editing the lines won't do it, as the configuration already loaded into ram may overwrite the edit.


Close any open KwalletManager or wallet config apps

Kill any wallet daemons running:
pkill kwalletd*

Open ~/.config/kwalletrc, and delete the lines:

[Migration]
alreadyMigrated=true

Save the file

Open KwalletManager: it should attempt do the migration

[Spadge]

Open KwalletManager: it should attempt do the migration

Well yep, that appears to have done something, thanks!

My automount fix didn't work. It used to in 15.04 but I guess something's changed. Boot takes a long time now, login slow and desktop loading takes an age to move the clock over to the right and make the desktop active.

[Guest]

Sorry for the delay, work and sleep conspired against me


Simply deleting or editing the lines won't do it, as the configuration already loaded into ram may overwrite the edit.


Close any open KwalletManager or wallet config apps

Kill any wallet daemons running:
pkill kwalletd*

Open ~/.config/kwalletrc, and delete the lines:

[Migration]
alreadyMigrated=true

Save the file

Open KwalletManager: it should attempt do the migration

Really thanks a lot claydoh - that at last helped me after many hours of desparate search.

One more hint that may help others:
If in kwalletrc there's also the line

[Wallet]
First Use=false

- change this to "true" (still considering no running kwallet process), that finally started the successful migration for me.

Side question - is it normal that I have both kwalletd and kwalletd5 processes running?

[claydoh]

Yes, iirc. There may not be as much left, but there are still lingering kde4 things around.

Sent from my LG G4

[Spadge]

Thanks for the volume tip. I'll get right on that once I've blacklisted the hdmi sound on the gfx card.

Hilariously, googling how to blacklist the hdmi audio led me to a post by some genius guy on this very forum!

https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...dia-HDMI-Audio

[Spadge]

Apparently, the better more correct way to disable a device is to use /etc/udev/rules.d

When I get this worked out I'll post again about it.

[Spadge]

Okay, here's the thing.

spadge@Venus:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules 
# Remove Nvidia HDMI Audio device from Kernel.
# find device string using the following command:
# find /sys/devices -name *`lspci | grep Audio | awk /NVIDIA/{'print $1'}`

ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="0000:01:00.1", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.1/remove'"

Nvidia has now gone from Audio:

spadge@Venus:~$ lspci | grep Audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)

KDE Audio setup shows Nvidia HDMI greyed out.

[oshunluvr]

Nice work.