No Printing in Arch 32 KDE

Hi
not having much luck with Arch lately
first Libreoffice now----
Some of KDE is kaput now in KC module
After my last upgrade which seemed to go OK
Configure Local and remote Printers
The service"Printer Configuration"does not providean interface 'KCmodule with the keyword"system-config-printer-kde/system-config-printer-kde.py" The factorydoes not supportcreating componentsof the specified type.
An error occurred in your last KDE upgrade leaving orphaned control module
You have old third party modules lying around.
I do not know what to do here, looks like KDE in Arch is breaking.
Regards
Zoroid
Last edited by zoroid (2011-11-22 11:29:42)

Has nobody else used KDE with this problem?
At first KDE was fine but some update killed printing yesterday.
Please help, is it a package thing, or what update was responsible I wonder.
Guess we have to expect package breaks in Arch the same as other
bleeding edge distros, but it seems more difficult in Arch, a learning process.
Guess I'll have to try the linux cups printing page, but that only works if
cups is intact and it may not be.
I should mention that I tried Archbang as well and put KDE as the desktop not openbox,
and exactly the same thing happened after pacman -Syu as in Arch, no printing and exactly the same errors
as described above.
So others must surely be affected by this in Arch.
Though maybe I am a solo KDE user,
in other and desktop forum there is no mention of KDE at all, only
those rather unfriendly new Gnome problems.
Regards
Zoroid
Last edited by zoroid (2011-11-23 05:02:01)

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I'm wondering about trying to write some command line scripts but I'm not sure if this is the best solution so I'd like to know if better ones might be possible first. I'm not sure what the current best command line print command is although I figure that shouldn't be too hard to establish. But this would be very inconvenient for many applications. The only reason I'm considering it is because it wouldn't be too bad from Kile since the Konsole is right there anyway; and acroread doesn't rely on KDE for printing. Most of my printing is either kile -> okular -> print or acroread -> print. I'd still have issues with libreoffice, web browsers etc. so I'd rather find a more general solution if possible. (I know I can print to PDF and then print that but I might as well just go through the config unless I need quality settings in that case.)
Or should I just buy a pencil?!

SteveK wrote:I just have the one printer, although I have set it up in 2 or 3 different KDE distros and I'm just using normal Arch packages here.
The reason I asked is because there are at least two patches available to fix the bug but they require compiling the whole of QT from source. Most distros, however, include these patches. So the fact that it works for you in another distro means nothing but the fact that it works for you in Arch is very, very interesting.
The KDE developers don't seem to expect it to work. Discussion at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180051 reveals that they think that Arch are "douchebags" for not patching QT. (Please note that I am *not* endorsing this view as the bug thread on KDE should make clear.)
Unless, of course, they *are* patching it and something is weird about my config. How would I find that out?
Oh and just to clarify, today I re-checked changing paper type between A4/Letter and colours to greyscale/colour as default settings, rebooted and the print dialogue reflected those changes, along with the printed output. I have no idea why it works for some people and not others.
My print dialog doesn't even reflect it 30 seconds later, let alone after a reboot! (And I reboot quite often so it isn't the lack of rebooting, either.)
What about running from a terminal? Any related errors show up?
Sorry for being dumb. How would I run it from the terminal? Or what would I run? Do you just mean start e.g. okular from terminal? I don't get anything interesting:
okular <random-file>.pdf
okular(24864)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(24864)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(24864)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(24864)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(24864)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
okular(24864)/kdeui (kdelibs) KXMLGUIClient::~KXMLGUIClient: 0x8b9230 deleted without having been removed from the factory first. This will leak standalone popupmenus and could lead to crashes.
I didn't actually print as I'm not connected to a printer right now, but I opened the print dialog, selected a printer and examined both "properties" and "options". The "advanced" properties always shows the CUPS defaults but they have no effect on anything. The "options", as usual, defaulted to letter/singe-sided/color etc.
But perhaps that's not what you meant by "run from a terminal"?

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I just installed Arch the first time. after some unsuccessful attemps to with awesome, I tried to install xfce and kde. I managed to get both running without problems, but after further installation of additional packages (like amarok1, alsa, kile, qtoctave, stellarium, GIMP, Geeqie, Ktorrent, Kopete), the KDE daemon crashes at startup ad a kde crash bug report is displayed. I can't see any window content or windows any more, but other functionality like tabbing through windows or quicklaunch still works. I can get window content if I kill the plasma-desktop. (There also isn't any sound.)
I followed thou the beginners guide and also official installation, checked the archlinux wiki on KDE and others, googled. I can't figure out what happened.
I'm running following Daemons:
/etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(hwclock @syslog-ng dbus netfs crond alsa @cups)
I start kdm through etc/inittab as suggested on archwiki kde.
startx runs fine, I suspect thou that I'm missing some xinit config files, but not sure thou what is needed as I start kdm through inittab.
I'd be glad for any suggestions or help! =)
full /etc/inittab, /etc/rc.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log on:
http://pastebin.com/UBysin7q
I have a Lenovo X220 Laptop plus externalmonitor, which runs fine.

Problem solved. I reinstalled arch and kde desktop environment. everything works smooth now
thank you thou anyway for your help. I looked into ~/.xsession-errors , but there we're just too many error messages. I believe the problem was linked to phonon-vlc.

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I'm on a fully upgraded Arch 64b/KDE.
Ever since I've upgraded to KDE 4.5.2 KNotify constantly crashes with error messages like this one:
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