Listmates, Here is a curious one. I am getting KDE4 errors dumped back to the screen on my KDE3 (kdemod3) screen hours after kdiff3 was run from the terminal? Here is what is getting dumped back to my terminal through stderr on my x86_64 install: kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" kbuildsycoca4(25149) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KBuildServiceFactory::createEntry: Invalid Service : "/usr/share/applications/scribus.desktop" Anybody ever seen something like this before. It looks like it will be a kdemod issue related to the fact that kdiff3 was built against the kde4 runtime, but I thought I would ask hear to see if anyone else has seen something like this before? I have a bug open with kdemod: http://www.chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=271 where additional details can be found. The times associated with running kdiff3 and then the above error messages have me confused. Specifically I ran kdiff3 and got the following output on stdout at 2:12 am: 02:12 alchemy:~/tmp/cursor/xcursorgen-1.0.2/mycursors> kdiff3 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/k3b.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). kbuildsycoca4(16647) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "/opt/kde/share/applications/kde/filelight.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon). <snip> Then hours later, I received the stderr messages: [05:15 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4 (21983)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line <snip> [09:05 archangel:~/tmp] # kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kbuildsycoca4 kbuildsycoca4 running... kbuildsycoca4(25149)/kdecore (KService) KServicePrivate::init: The desktop entry file "/usr/share/applications/kde4/koffice.desktop" has Type= "Application" but no Exec line Now I'm not trying to run kdeinit4, that just what is coming back trough stderr and my prompt just happens to have a timestamp in it to help gage time. Is there anything I can do with kdiff3 to prevent the call to kdeinit4? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com