opening konsole starts other program SOLVED

[Jean]

Hello,

Yesterday I was playing with starting some programs from konsoloe, jack and rosegarden, both audio apps but that has probably nothing to do with it.

Now everytime I open up konsole, which is every new kde session by default, it also starts up rosegarden.

I looked in bashrc, kmenu and other places, googled, but can't find what's causing this, it must be in soms config file or such. But where?

Still 7.10 here.

Thanks.

[jankushka]

Re: opening konsole starts other program


you mean that...
if you log into kde, close konsole, close rosegarden
then start konsole again, rosegarden is also fired up?

[Jean]

Re: opening konsole starts other program

exactly yes.

It's even worse, if I 'sudo apt-get remove --purge rosegarden', then start a konsole again, I get this:

The program 'rosegarden' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install rosegarden
bash: rosegarden: command not found

[jankushka]

Re: opening konsole starts other program



funny!

a) kmenu
edit the konsole menu item
see what the "command" entry looks like
it should simply read: konsole
if we're lucky, it reads "konsole; rosegarden"
and we would be done...

b) from an xterm...
hit alt-f2
type xterm and return
try starting konsole from the command line there
see if rosegarden is fired up
it would be even funnier if it was.
and i would...

c) from the xterm command line
enter:

which konsole

you should get:

/usr/bin/konsole

you could then try and see what the dir entry looks like:

ls -l `which konsole`

you should get this

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3012 2008-02-01 12:47 /usr/bin/konsole

see if it's actually a binary file:

file `which konsole`

you should get:

/usr/bin/konsole: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.8, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

or something similar, according to your platform

and if you're on a 32bit intel platform, this is my md5 checksum:

md5sum /usr/bin/konsole
d0e1235c8883858153f3fb29d3adb864 /usr/bin/konsole

hth

[jankushka]

Re: opening konsole starts other program

from your last edit...

it actually looks like "rosegarden" ended up in some bash config file.

try:

cd
grep -Hrni rosegarden /etc

and also

cd /home
grep -Hrni rosegarden <your_user_home_dir>

[Jean]

Re: opening konsole starts other program

it actually looks like "rosegarden" ended up in some bash config file.
try:

cd
grep -Hrni rosegarden /etc

This one did it. It told me:

/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:591:# rosegarden
/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:593:200000 rosegarden
/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:594:200001 rosegarden (notation)
/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:595:200002 rosegarden (matrix)
/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:596:200003 rosegarden (sequencer)
/etc/kde3/kdebug.areas~:597:200004 rosegarden (sequence manager)

Looking at the file /etc/kde3/kdebug.areas showed indeed these entries at the very bottom.
Removing those lines fixed the problem. Starting a new konsole gives a blessfully empty window to type (errors) into.

As one can see from those linenumbers, there are lots of other entries in that file, luckily they have not started up too each time.

Your other suggestions I tried first, got exactly the same output as you described.

Wow. Thanks a bunch jankushka. Any ideas what has happended?

Back to installing rosegarden again...

[jankushka]

Re: opening konsole starts other program SOLVED

well...
in principles, those settings don't have anything to do with what you were seeing.
they're actually nowhere near to what was (supposedly) happening.
i don't have a clue as to what is going on...

[Jean]

Re: opening konsole starts other program SOLVED

Ok, then it's one for the 'mystery files'.

Thanks a lot for your extensive help.

Jean.