colord error when attempting monitor calibration. (Kubuntu 16.04)

[Stampede]

I am not sure if there is a better place to put this. I am trying to calibrate my monitor using Displaycal. After it goes through its tests and tries to install an ICC profile I get the following error message:

The profile has been installed, but there may be problems.
Agryll CMS: OK
colord: Querying for profile 'icc-(long hex string here)' returned no result for 5 seconds

I have rebooted the computer and searched for the profile name using
$ colormgr get-profiles

And no profile by that name exists.

I asked on the Displaycal help forums and the developer there told me to ask you people.

Some people have solved this problem by installing package gnome-color-manager, however, since I am using KDE with Kubuntu, I am hesitant to try this. Any ideas?

[hughsie]

Are you running colord-kde or xiccd?

[Stampede]

Hello. Thank you for the reply.

$ sudo dpkg --get-selections

Lists all the installed packages on my system (I think). Neither colord-kde nor xiccd are listed when I run that command.
These are the packages that contain the string "colord:"

• colord
• colord-data
• gir1.2-colord-1.0
• gir1.2-colordgtk-1.0
• libcolord-gtk1:amd64
• libcolord2:amd64

The string "xiccd" does not appear at all in the list of installed packages.

Does that answer the question?

[hughsie]

I think you want to install colord-kde

[Stampede]

I installed colord-kde from the Ubuntu repositories and received the same error. Any other ideas to try?

[ourmark36]

I have the same error on a Kubuntu box using the Nvidia display drivers. I don't get the error on my laptop so that makes me think that colord can't work with these proprietary drivers. I am now searching for another way to load the icc profiles. Nouveau doesn't work for me so isn't an option.

Edit to add: I found this blog post which says that nvidia cannot handle per-monitor icc profiles. I have a 2 monitor setup so this seems to be a no-go with my hardware and current drivers / software. Hoping that a Radeon will solve my problems.