Bug#655243: bluedevil: Unable to save user-places.xbel on first login (race?)
Package: libkdecore5
Version: 4:4.4.5-2
Severity: important
User: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
Usertags: debian-edu
When logging into KDE for the first time with Debian/Squeeze on a
machine with Bluetooth hardware, KDE show a dialog reporting an error
saving the file ~/.local/share//user-places.xbel. It is claimed to be
caused by permissions problems. The disk is not full and the directory
exist and the user have access to write to the directory after login.
According to <URL: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=112580 >
the problem is in kdelibs and a workaround is to create ~/.local/share
before the user log into KDE. According to
<URL: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=109&t=69921 > the
underlying problem is fixed in kdelibs version 4:4.6.1 in Linux Mint.
I find the same problem reported to Ubuntu as
<URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/627815 >, and claimed to be fixed
in kde4libs version 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu7 and again fixed in kde4libs version
4:4.6.1-0ubuntu1.
I also find the same problem reported in
<URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=750423 >.
As this problem affect Debian Edu badly, it would be great if it could
be fixed in Debian/Squeeze. New users, especially teachers and pupils
in schools, are confused and scared by such strange message when they
first log into their user account.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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