Problems starting apps after edgy->feisty upgrade !!

[Laurent]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Laurent wrote:
>
>   
>> Help!
>> Some apps do simply not start after I did upgrade from edgy to feisty.
>> Kontact, Kopete, Automatix2, etc... start loading but do never start up
>> completely... When I start them (Kontact as example) from a Konsole, I
>> get this error mesg:
>>
>> # kontact
>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
>>   Major opcode:  144
>>   Minor opcode:  3
>>   Resource id:  0x0
>> Failed to open device
>> X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 167
>>   Major opcode:  144
>>   Minor opcode:  3
>>   Resource id:  0x0
>> Failed to open device
>> kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated
>> action. 
>>     
> (more of the same)
>
> None of those are a problem.  Everything generates those "BadDevice"
> errors - they can be removed if you want by removing the Wacom stanzas from
> xorg.conf, but they do no harm.  Many things generate the plugAccel()
> warning and one presumes they'll be fixed as time goes by.
>
>   
>> kontact: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde3/kabc_file.so: 
>> undefined symbol: _ZN4KABK12ResourceFileC1EPK7KConfig ERROR: Communication
>> problem with kontact, it probably crashed.
>>     
>
> That looks like a problem with kabc (kaddressbook).  The file _should_ be
> part of kdelibs4c2a, so I'd try "sudo aptitude reinstall kdelibs4c2a" and
> see what happens.  
>   
Thanx a lot! That did it! Now all the apps are starting up correctly!

Laurent Asorne