Re: CD7DVD burner k3b damaged

From: Enrique Perez-Terron (enrio_at_online.no)
Date: 10/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 02:53:49 +0200

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:18:49 +0200, Udo Huebner <udo.huebner@t-online.de> wrote:

> Hello everybody -
>
> my system is SuSE 8.2 and there is an older version
> of k3b which did not burn DVDs but only CDs. Thus,
> I made a download of the k3b binary package
> "K3b 0.11.23 SuSE 8.2 package (KDE 3.2)" from
> http://www.k3b.org/.
>
> I doubly clicked on the downloaded rpm-package and
> Yast2 made the update without complaining.
>
> Then I started k3b but in the task bar there only
> emerged the typical short bar for program windows.
> An egg-timer in this bar ran for 10 to 15 seconds
> then vanished together with the short bar as if
> nothing has happened. So, k3b does not start.
>
> One can also start "adjust k3b". I did it and got
> the message
> "An error arose when loading the module"
> and the details button showed
> "The library file
> libkcm_k3bsetup2.la
> could not be found via your PATH".

I have waited to see if anyone who knows more would answer here,
because I have no idea what k3b is, and I never used SuSE.

First I am puzzled by the claim that this library should be
found via the PATH. I don't know, perhaps this is how it works
on Windows? Is this program a port from Windows?

On linux, programs usually use the ld.so to load dynamic libraries.
I am not sure about libraries loaded after startup, that may be
different.

Use the command

   rpm -q -l k3b | grep libkcm_k3bsetup2.la

to see if the rpm included such a file at all, and where it was
installed. Provided you find it, I suggest you just try out if
adding the directory to the PATH variable helps. To do so, find
out which is the actual command run when you start this program.
Suppose you find it is /usr/bin/k3b. Then, as root

   # cd /usr/bin
   # ls real-k3b # make sure this does NOT exist
   # mv k3b real-k3b
   # echo "#! /bin/bash" >k3b
   # echo "PATH=\"/usr/share/k3b/lib:$PATH\"" >>k3b
   # echo "export PATH" >>k3b
   # echo "exec /usr/bin/real-k3b \"$@\" " >>k3b
   # chmod 755 k3b

Here I assume the directory containing the file in question is
/usr/share/k3b/lib.

If this does not work, try adding then directory in question
to /etc/ld.so.conf, and then run "ldconfig". If that does not
help, I don't know. Perhaps you can find documented somewhere
that the Linux version (asuming there are other versions) don't
use the PATH variable but some other variable like "K3BLIB" or
"K3B_LIB" or plurals. If so, do as above, but instead of

   # echo "PATH=\"/usr/share/k3b/lib:$PATH\"" >>k3b
   # echo "export PATH" >>k3b

do

   # echo "K3BLIB=\"/usr/share/k3b/lib\"" >>k3b
   # echo "export K3BLIB" >>k3b

-Enrique

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