Unable to start Dr. Konqi

[Brett Alton]

Binary package hint: kdenlive

I can not run kdenlive due to the error 'Unable to start Dr. Konqi'

$ kdenlive
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
QSettings::sync: filename is null/empty
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
$ apt-cache policy kdenlive linux-image-generic && lsb_release -a
kdenlive:
  Installed: 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-image-generic:
  Installed: 2.6.27.7.10
  Candidate: 2.6.27.7.10
  Version table:
 *** 2.6.27.7.10 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

[Tiago VM (tiagovm)]

I had also the same problem here:

tiagovm@tiagovm-laptop:~$ kdenlive
Unable to start Dr. Konqi
tiagovm@tiagovm-laptop:~$ kdenlive
KCrash: Application 'kdenlive' crashing...
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
tiagovm@tiagovm-laptop:~$ apt-cache policy kdenlive linux-image-generic && lsb_release -a
kdenlive:
  Instalado: 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3
  Candidato: 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
linux-image-generic:
  Instalado: 2.6.27.7.11
  Candidato: 2.6.27.7.11
  Tabela de versão:
 *** 2.6.27.7.11 0
        500 http://br.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid
tiagovm@tiagovm-laptop:~$

[trevor t (launch-etjt)]

Again, with Ubuntu 8.10

trevor@Q6600:~$ kdenlive
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
KCrash: Application 'kdenlive' crashing...
Could not find 'drkonqi' executable.
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
trevor@Q6600:~$

[Michael A. Phillips (maphilli14)]

maphilli14@Draco-v21:~$ sudo apt-get install drkonqi
[sudo] password for maphilli14:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package drkonqi is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  kdebase-runtime-data
E: Package drkonqi has no installation candidate
maphilli14@Draco-v21:~$ sudo apt-get install kdebase-runtime-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
kdebase-runtime-data is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
maphilli14@Draco-v21:~$

[johnaman (johnaman-verizon)]

For KDEnlive - I also received this error. From hints on google "drkonki"

I am now running like so from Ubuntu 8.10 (Ibex)

john@linuxbox $ KDE_DEBUG=False kdenlive --nocrashhandler

Haven't _actually _ edited yet though

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

This is caused since in Intrepid, kdenlive was a KDE3 app and was looking for the KDE3 Dr. Konqi in a KDE4 environment. Now that kdenlive is a KDE4 app, this bug will not be an issue in Kubuntu 9.04 and up.