Building KSambaPlugin Port question pt2

[Joe Kraft]

I don't know if it helps but I figured out that it doesn't freeze with the
command line:
    "kcmshell --nocrashhandler kcmsambaconf"

Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction?

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Joe Kraft
> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:32
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: KSambaPlugin question
>
>
> I've been looking at the KSambaPlugin and am interested in it. I noticed
>  there used to be a port for this KControl plugin, but it appears to not
>  have been updated and was removed.  I figured it's as good of a place as
>  any to start digging into FreeBSD, but I've run into a problem with it.
>
>  I've made the changes to the port files and it configures and 
> builds fine,
>  but it won't run.  I'm new with programming on FreeBSD, so forgive me if
>  this is an easy problem to solve...
>
>  I'm using KDE 3.2, Samba 3.0.1, FreeBSD 5.2, and ksambaplugin 0.5.  
>    kde-3.2.0           The "meta-port" for KDE
>    kdebase-3.2.0_1     Basic applications for the KDE system
>    kdelibs-3.2.0       Base set of libraries needed by KDE programs
>    samba-3.0.1_2,1     A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX
>    samba-libsmbclient-3.0.1 The shared lib from the samba packages
>
>  The compile is relatively clean, only a few messages about 
> unused variables
>  and arguments and a couple about using some print headers which are
>  supposed to be for internal KDE use.  No errors though.
>
>  What is happening is that the plugin is freezing when it's called.  I've
>  tracked it down to the external process call (testParam.start), 
> which never
>  returns.  Here's the relevant code parts:
>
>  --- start code ---
>    KProcess testParam;
>    testParam << "testparm";
>    testParam << "-V";
>    _parmOutput = QString("");
>    _sambaVersion = 2;
>
>    connect( &testParam, SIGNAL(receivedStdout(KProcess*,char*,int)),
>            this, SLOT(testParmStdOutReceived(KProcess*,char*,int)));
>
>  =>if (testParam.start(KProcess::Block,KProcess::Stdout)) {
>      if (_parmOutput.find("3") > -1)
>        _sambaVersion = 3;
>    } 
>  --- end code ---
>  --- more code ---
>    void SambaFile::testParmStdOutReceived(KProcess *, char *buffer, int
>  buflen)
>    {
>      _parmOutput+=QString::fromLatin1(buffer,buflen);
>    }
>  --- end more code ---
>
>  I can run the 'testparm -V' from a shell to get the samba 
> version, but the
>  response seems to get lost here.  Is there anything that should be
>  different in this snippet of code?  It appears the plugin has only been
>  tested in Linux; so, is there a common problem I'm running into here. 
>  Pointers to any additional documentation I should read would be
>  appreciated.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Joe.
>
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