Re: KDE 3.5.3, IPv6, and CUPS

From: Fielder George Dowding <fgdowding@iceworm-enterprises.net>
Date: Mon Jun 26 2006 - 09:59:43 AKDT

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Greg Madden wrote:
> On Saturday 24 June 2006 21:42, James Zuelow wrote:
>> Anyone else running KDE 3.5.3 on Debian testing?
>>
>> I do a dist-upgrade almost every day, and there have been a lot of KDE
>> components coming down the pipe. Testing == sometimes broken.
>>
>> I recently lost the ability to resolve localhost with KDE. I
>> originally noticed it when my desktop shortcuts to localhost stopped
>> working and I had to use Firefox to get to my gnump3d music, but didn't
>> pay much attention to it until I realized I couldn't print anymore. In
>> Konqueror, http://127.0.0.1:631 would work fine, but
>> http://localhost:631 would time out. Firefox did not have any issue
>> with http://localhost:631, and other machines on the subnet could also
>> connect so I was confident that it was a KDE problem and not a CUPS
>> problem.
>
> I use testing, upgrade several times a week. The only weird thing that
> happened to me is Zeroconf gets installed as a depends on KDE-Network
> meta-package, and I ended up in the twilight zone of 169.254.x.x. Not
> sure what else could happen with Zeroconf , I do have a dhcp server
> running just fine on my firewall. I don't use KDE as my desktop/window
> manager , but I use quite a few kde apps.
Hmmm... I am not sure what the effect of running dist-upgrade almost
every day as opposed to doing a simple update to get the latest list for
the distribution (sarge == stable; etch == testing; sid == unstable).
What, pray tell, is your goal in doing a dist-upgrade almost every day?

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