Bug#747665: kdm: kde tries to read all files under /boot etc
This one bugged me also some time ... . Are you maybe using locale.purge with
the "--path-exclude" option ?
The parsing of files as config-files from the cwd (in case of kdm "/") is
somewhere happening in libkdecore5. And it seems to have something to do with
missing locale files of the the kde-packages. A normal (intact) installation
doesn't do that.
One can reproduce/trigger this as well easily using "kde4-config". It shows the
same behaviour, when launched from "/". A gdb backtrace reveals then a code-
path in relation with locale processing.
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cd /
gdb --args kde4-config --help
run
#> Ctrl-c when it doing it's logging excess.
backtrace
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The following fixed it then (finally!) for me:
Deactivating the "--path-exclude" of locale-purge and then reinstalling all
locale-related packages:
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rm /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/50localepurge
dpkg-reconfigure localepurge
#> Disable the "Use dpkg --path-exclude" option
apt-get install --reinstall $(dpkg -l |grep "kde.*all" |cut -d ' ' -f 3)
locales util-linux-locales
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BR, Oliver
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