I’m running Neon Linux. I recently got an upgrade to Plasma 6.4.0
Kdenlive 25.04.2 will no longer run. I copied the text below from a terminal window. I have frei0r-plugins installed (v1.8.0-1build3). All the frei0r files listed as unavailable in the text below exist on my hard drive.
Any idea what I need to do to make Kdenlive happy?
jim@linux:~$ kdenlive
profilePath from appDir/../share: “/usr/share/mlt-7/profiles”
meltPath from KdenliveSetting::meltPath: “”
meltPath from profilePath/../../../bin: “/usr/bin/melt-7”
Starting render server
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
STARTING TASKMANAGER CLOSURE, ACTIVE THREADS: 0
EXCEPTIONS: QList()
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_push-down”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_push-left”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_push-right”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_push-up”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_slide-down”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_slide-left”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_slide-up”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_slide-right”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-barn-door-h”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-barn-door-v”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-circle”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-down”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-left”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-rect”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-right”
plugin not available: “frei0r.sleid0r_wipe-up”
plugin not available: “region”
Empty metadata for “glsl.manager”
Empty metadata for “telecide”
[libprotobuf ERROR google/protobuf/descriptor_database.cc:642] File already exists in database: versions.proto
[libprotobuf FATAL google/protobuf/descriptor.cc:1988] CHECK failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size):
terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘google::protobuf::FatalException’
what(): CHECK failed: GeneratedDatabase()->Add(encoded_file_descriptor, size):
KCrash: Application ‘kdenlive’ crashing… crashRecursionCounter = 2
Aborted (core dumped)
Figured it was because of the distro change. Grabbed the appimage from the Kdenlive site and that works. (Never had to use an appimage before so never thought of trying that).
We can’t help you with distro problems, their maintainers don’t watch for them here.
If you’re tracking the distro’s bleeding edge (as plasma 6.4 suggests), then it’s in the contract that you get to keep all the pieces when stuff like this happens, and you should be reporting it to them, and or following their dev closely enough to know they are in the middle of a protobuf version transition (or have totally botched one) and everything using it is likely to be busted.
If you have trouble with the appimage, that’s something we definitely want to know about here. Using them isn’t something I’d recommend for every tool, but for this one, the packages in most distros tend to be more swing and a miss than would be ideal - and it gives you the added advantage of being able to keep around all the exact versions you used to create old projects, and not update in the middle of a major project which may have unintended consequences needing you to rework something you’re using in it. Which more than offsets all the other things which might otherwise be cringe about using that sort of packaging.
I’ve been running Neon pretty well since they introduced it eight years ago.. And yes, chasing bugs after some of the many updates is part of the ‘experience’.
When Kdenlive wouldn’t run, I wasn’t sure where to ask. I guess I’ll mention it over on the Plasma section. It’s something they should look at.
Just to add.. Kdenlive is a great package.. I’ve been using it for years as well.
The simplest flowchart is if you have a problem, try the appimage.
If you can reproduce it with that, we want to hear about it here,
if you can’t then you should talk to whoever made the package that
is giving you trouble, because it will be something in what they did.