[intrepid]rkward 0.5.0b-2 in Intrepid Ibex starts but doesn't work. No icons no starting page

[Mario Santoro]

Binary package hint: rkward

Hello!
I upgreded hardy to intrepid but rkward (0.5.0b-2) doesn't work. I can start the program but I can use it. There aren't icons neither start page. If I try to use the menus, every kind of command, there is the same error message:

"The support file "/home/mario/rkward/phpfiles/common.php" could not be found or is not readable. Please check your installation."

but this directory doesn't exist. I searched if in /home/mario/.rkward/ there is the phpfiles directory but it don't exist.

This is the output from the console
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QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified

R version 2.8.0 (2008-10-20)
Copyright (C) 2008 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
ISBN 3-900051-07-0

QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
XML-parsing 'rkward/pages//rkward_welcome.rkh' : Impossibile aprire il file in lettura
XML-parsing 'rkward/pages//rkward_welcome.rkh' : Error parsing XML-file. Error-message was: 'unexpected end of file' in line '1', column '1'. Expect further errors to be reported below "

and this is the crash message with details

A Fatal Error Occurred
The application RKWard (rkward) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
Application: RKWard (rkward), signal SIGSEGV
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[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb6ec71e5 in QProcess::kill () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4
#7 0x0813151c in _start ()
#0 0xb7fdf430 in __kernel_vsyscall ()

Thanks for help!!!

[Donatas Glodenis (dgvirtual)]

I had the same problem, and it just disappeared yesterday, perhaps after the latest kde updates and reinstall of rkward... do not know why. But here is my try to explain:

If you compile rkward from source using the command sequence
cmake .
make
make install

Rkward gets installed in /usr/local/ and all the menu items and start page are visible.
However, if I try to install it to /usr by following the install instructions and build it with
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR
I get it installed in / instead, however weird it might sound. And I get the problems described here: missing menu items and no start page....

so I did
echo $KDEDIR
and got an empty string....

then I rebuild rkward with
cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
and everything was fine again.

So I can simulate the problem, but it does not help me to explain, why did the problem suddenly go away.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package rkward - 0.5.0d-3ubuntu1

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rkward (0.5.0d-3ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian (LP: #381765)
   - Fix plugin problem at startup (LP: #272527)
   - Re-enable editor for R-Scripts. (LP: #340217)
   - Fix starting page (LP: #294610)
   - Fix installation of the icons (LP: #186451)
  * Ubuntu remaining changes
   - Drop depends on cmake and libphonon-dev.
   - Disable information from upstream, modified rkward/rkward.cpp
     (LP: #318278)

rkward (0.5.0d-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * build-depend on libx11-dev
    closes: #529024
  * use dh_prep instead of deprecated dh_clean -k

rkward (0.5.0d-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * bumped standards version to 3.8.1
  * increased debhelper compat-level to 7
  * upload to unstable (repeat closes because 0.5.0d-1 was not uploaded)
    closes: #520969
    closes: #491110
    closes: #501649
    closes: #527649 (included missing Rdevices.h; actually fixed in 0.5.0c)

rkward (0.5.0d-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream release
  * upload to unstable (repeat closes because 0.5.0c-1 was not uploaded)
    closes: #520969
    closes: #491110
    closes: #501649

 -- Julien Lavergne <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:32:06 +0200