Knights - empty window

[lrmall01]

I just installed the chess program. Seemed to go fine, apt-get didn't have any complaints. When I start the program up I just get an empty window. All the menus are there and they work. I can start new games, connect to FICS, etc. but there is no board. Just the window and the menu bar.

When I start the program in a terminal, here is the output:

lrmall01@crom:~$ knights
knights: WARNING: audio::audio: Can not create Arts::SoundServerV2
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: WARNING: The theme KBDefault.tar.gz does not exist in any valid path.
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: WARNING: The theme KCDefault.tar.gz does not exist in any valid path.
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.
knights:
knights: WARNING: The theme KSDefault.tar.gz does not exist in any valid path.
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QFile::open: No file name specified
QMetaObject::findSignal:io_engine: Conflict with io_base::sendCMD(const Command&)

Any suggestions? BTW, I'm runnung ubuntu, breezy. Thought it might be something to do with not having all the KDE libs installed, but I don't think so - all the menus work correctly.

Thanks.

Edit: Seems that it can't find the themes. I checked the installed files and it shows the default theme file got installed to /usr/share/apps/knights/themes/KSDefault.tar.gz I tried the suggestions located here, http://knights.sourceforge.net/faq.php, like the -d command line switch but haven't got it to work yet.

The terminal states that the theme KSDefault.tar.gz does not exist in any valid path. So, what is a valid path - I can find the archive for the themes, but I can't figure out how to get the app to find them.

[Mr_Grieves]

I think this is the biggest clue to you're problem.


klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'tar'.

It seems your system tries to open/use a file with a .tar prefix.. but it does not recognice it.

Weird.. could it be the path to 'tar' that is broken?

What does:

whereis tar

give?

[lrmall01]

lrmall01@crom:~$ whereis tar
tar: /bin/tar /usr/include/tar.h /usr/share/man/man1/tar.1.gz

[lrmall01]

Shameless bump... I still haven't got this figured out.

[146lily]

I have the same problem, both board and pieces are missing. I downloaded a theme pack from the knights website. Put it in home and used knights options to install themes. I got a choice of boards with their own pieces, I want to choose seperatly...
If you look round in I think user folder you will also find basic default theme to load.
Dont know why it wont install itself!

[lrmall01]

I'm not quite sure we have the same problem. I downloaded themes as well and installed locally with no change. In the settings dialog it shows that it should use the default themes but nothing works.

[kalias]

Interesting what you have seen because it is exactly what I see on my system. I thought it was due to my upgrade but apparently not. Is there a system type person out there that can try it on there system and see if it works?

kalias

[BlueEars]

Hi

Did you ever solve this empty window problem?

I like to play chess at Icc. And I want to give this program a try. But I also suffer from the empty window problem.


Help!

:confused:

[lrmall01]

No, never did get it figured out. eBoard is a nice client though, have you tried it? I also found Jose http://jose-chess.sourceforge.net/
, but I'm not sure it can play on chess servers such as ICC. It is really nice for analyzing positions are practicing tactics from FEN positions or pgn databases.

[sp3ci3s]

just install the package kdebase-kio-plugins and everything works fine, at least for me.

[lrmall01]

Yep, works for me too! Thanks.

[edwina]

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but it looks like this problem recurs in Dapper and doesn't get solved by the kdebase-plugins fix. Have you guys upgraded yet? Still working okay?

[faetux]

@edwina

I solvead the dapper-problem for me. I start knights with --noxim

[UbuGianlu]

confirm miss kio plugins

if you have automatic update active after you install knights you get message update available, run the update everythings works fine.

:popcorn: