MDK10.0OfficialDL

pete_bogg · 05-13-2004, 09:19 AM

Has anyone had problems with kfind crashing?

I am using MDK 10.0 Official Download with the version of KDE that came with it.

It seems that I cannot get kfind to find "files by name" without it going into "never-never land". Many times I have to re-boot. Also, I lose my /dev/ttySHSF links after using kfind.

There were some postings in another forum about a problem with klipper that caused kfind to crash. These were at the end of last year, prior to MDK 10 release.

Any thoughts?

equinox · 05-13-2004, 10:02 AM

this has nothing to do with kfind, but wouldn't you find using a konsole easier? like:

find | grep <item>

i mean there are so many ways you can use grep to find anything!

Skankpuss · 05-15-2004, 11:18 AM

Kfind is crashing for me too, and I just tried that
# find | grep <something>
command, and I couldn't get anything useful out of it.

I think I need to find out how these basic commands work!

Any ideas where we can find a basic tuorial?

WilliamS · 05-15-2004, 12:11 PM

kfind craches on my machine too - 10CE.
I learned to use (in cli) find / -name (name-of-search-object)
With asterisk(s) where appropriate.

Skankpuss · 05-15-2004, 12:28 PM

thanks!

I'll post here if I find how to fix the kfind thing.

By the way, I'm using 10.0 now, I'll change it in my prefs now too.

KlaymenDK · 08-23-2004, 12:30 PM

I have problems, too. It's been running for over an hour, finding nothing and slowing my machine almost to a complete halt.

According to this post in the Fedora forum, it's a common "feature".

The concensus seems to be to use "slocate" or "find" in a command line window ... not that that's much help for a newbie or a GUI-centric person. I've just tried "slocate", and found I had to run "updatedb" first. I was able to bring up a long list of "mozilla" files, but in essence I have no idea what I'm doing, or why.

/me hopes the GUI will be fixed.

Whiskers · 08-23-2004, 01:05 PM

I noticed that my kde does that if you are using the find files in the KDE start menu, I have found a work around though!
Open up your home directory ( or another directory if you want) Go to "Tool" Then "Find File" it works ok if you do your find files from there instead of the KDE start menu, why? No clue, but hey it works