[SOLVED] Problem/question about knemo and IPv6

[ghmitch]

The default install of Mageia 3 results in an IPv6 option "enabled". In the past this has caused a number of problems on systems not connected to IPv6 service. It would seem to me that the default on this option should be "disabled" unless the installer can successfully probe and verify IPv6 upstream service availability. Any thoughts on this issue?

[doktor5000]

Well, yes in the past it caused some problems. It doesn't anymore, so why disable it? Also this is the default since ages ...
Any reports about current problems with IPv6 with this setup?

[ghmitch]

This began with a problem with knemo. knemo would ONLY show network traffic for IPv6 (which is non-existant). I ASSUMED (stupid me, of course) that IPv6 was the problem since it has had a history of problems, so I disabled it. Now knemo does not work at all as if it is not finding any interfaces in /proc/net/dev, but /proc/net/dev looks normal to me.

[doktor5000]

So this is a problem with knemo, maybe a bug in it. I've adjusted the thread title.

[ghmitch]

Or perhaps KDE4 itself. I am experiencing a weird instability in KDE at this point. When I initially enter the gui and launch an application, if I attempt to minimize that application, it disolves down to the center of the screen instead of to the persistant icon on the taskbar and becomes inaccessable. When I then click on the "activities" dots and AGAIN set the activities for "icon view" which is where it was in the first place, something resets in KDE and everything gets normal with minimized apps again shrinking down to their lauch icon on the taskbar. But this does not seem to fix the knemo problem.

[doktor5000]

Create a new user, and try with that one. Does the problem persist?

[ghmitch]

I've had a chance to do some further looking at this whole KDE syndrome. I logged in under the root account which was created with the beta 2 install and is currently upgraded to beta 4+ ongoing with Cauldren. This account is pristine. No changes have been made to KDE4 in any way since this account was created. I have a major clue in that fiddling with activity manager seems to clear some of these instabilities. So I simply went into the activity manager on the root loggin and attempted to create a new activity. At that point things get insane. A popup comes up requesting permission to run certain programs. But the list of programs presented is empty. If I say "OK" to that, the new activity gets placed on the activity bar but the Icon space flashes bizzarely and the activity does not function. So something is VERY wrong with the desktop activity part of the plasma desktop, at least in the case of my installation. Hopefully it gets fixed with the new bug fix release I expect will appear soon. - George

[doktor5000]

root login is not supported and disabled by default. Try again with a normal user.

[ghmitch]

Well, after installing more of the recent KDE bugfix packages, the activity manager got normal. And when I logged out and logged back in again, all my missing windows suddenly reappeared again all at once out of nowhere. It was pretty awesome. But knemo is still broken. - George

[ghmitch]

And now knemo is fixed as well, apparently by removing akonadi. - George