Re: K3B will not start?

Hi,

On 14/12/2009, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I use Ubuntu for my OS. I haven't had a need to use K3B in the past few
> weeks. During this time I've had several updates of the OS. Apparently
> one of them broke K3B. Because now it simply refuses to run. No errors
> or logs are generated. I've uninstalled and reinstalled to no effect,

Are you sure there's no logs or output?

What if you run k3b from a terminal?
What if you run k3b with strace or ltrace?
    eg.   strace k3b

Usually updates that break applications will be in the form of some
library is missing or wrong version, or undefined references or a
crash.

But Ubuntu is weird in that it does strange things with your execution
ernvironment - a number of commands could be shell aliases or
symlinks.

Can you also do: which k3b
And also: file `which k3b`
And: ls -l `which k3b`

That might let you know if the weird Ubuntu /etc/alternatives symlinks
is pointing to the wrong file or if you have a shell alias for k3b
that does nothing.

eg.
   qmake - a binary from Qt. One would expect this to be a normal
binary in /usr/bin/
but...

ls -l `which qmake`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 2007-07-06 16:24 /usr/bin/qmake ->
/etc/alternatives/qmake

If the symlink was accidentally changed to /bin/false... then you'd
never get any output from it. So worth checking.

Good luck,
Srdjan

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