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Offline Martin Goose

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Upgrade to KDE 4.8.3 and problems with Smb4K
« on: August 15, 2012, 06:01:38 AM »
I have previously been using Smb4k to mount and unmount network shares on my desktop PC. This is mostly to access shares on a Drobo FS NAS from a small e-machines PC mounted on the back of my Samsung screen. With the previous version of Smb4K the mount points would be created in my home folder and the shares mounted correctly. Now it fails to mount the shares at all.

The program starts normally and is able to browse the network and list the various shares. Starting from a konsole window gives the following:

[martin@fingers ~]$ smb4k
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
[martin@fingers ~]$

The application keeps running after the prompt returns.

When I try to mount a share the mount point is created but the status line just shows 'mounting share' and the progress indicator moves from side to side. The 'abort' button has no effect. Quitting the application removes the mount point.

I can successfully mount and unmount the shares using a script so there appears to be no problem other than with Smb4k itself.

The recent 32 bit test release behaved the same way after a test install. The latest 64 bit test release behaves correctly. Running from a konsole window in the 64 bit test release gives the same warning output as above.

Anyone else having similar problems? Any thoughts/ideas?
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Re: Upgrade to KDE 4.8.3 and problems with Smb4K
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2012, 06:20:56 AM »
Just a though - it may be worth checking in

PCC (Configure Your Computer) >> System >> Manage System Services by enabling them or disabling them

to see if  any appropriate options are tagged (or not)
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Re: Upgrade to KDE 4.8.3 and problems with Smb4K
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2012, 06:57:59 AM »
[martin@fingers ~]$ smb4k
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave.
[martin@fingers ~]$


The error message is rampant and has been reported as a bug. We are still lucky that most of our related apps are still working in spite of the error.

Rekonq on ArchLinux
KMail2 on OpenSuse
ldelibs on Youbuntu

... and many, many more.

As I mentioned on the other thread, I don't tango so let's wait for the samba experts to waltz in. ;D
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Re: Upgrade to KDE 4.8.3 and problems with Smb4K
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2012, 07:04:44 AM »
Just a though - it may be worth checking in

PCC (Configure Your Computer) >> System >> Manage System Services by enabling them or disabling them

to see if  any appropriate options are tagged (or not)

Thanks for your thought.

I have checked and 'smb' is running and ticked to start at boot.  As far as I know this is the only relevant service.

The error message is rampant and has been reported as a bug. We are still lucky that most of our related apps are still working in spite of the error.

As I mentioned on the other thread, I don't tango so let's wait for the samba experts to waltz in. ;D

Will do! I have created a couple of scripts to 'do the dirty work' for now. I will sit tight and wait until the bugs get squashed!
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