[NTLUG:Discuss] KDE problems

[Greg Edwards]

Fred,

Is it your whole system that's toast or just KDE?

I've found that anytime I upgrade KDE unless I remove the .kde and 
Desktop directories KDE starts up in some very strange ways.  I assume 
this is a KDE issue and not Mandrake.

Assuming it's just KDE I'd suggest you uninstall KDE (all versions). 
Then just to make sure life is reasonable reinstall KDE 2 from the 
Mandrake distrib.  You can do this as an upgrade from the install CD 
running thier installer.

Once you feel life is good again uninstall KDE 2 and then install KDE 3. 
  Again don't forget to remove .kde and Desktop from all user home 
directories.


Fred wrote:

> Hey, fellow gurus, help, please. I am running Mdk8.0/kde2.1 and wanted to
> upgrade to kde 3.0, so I went to kde and followed the 
> instructions and when I ran "urpmi *" it hosed my system. I now have a fu'ed
> box that has no gui and I really don't have a lot of time to 
> screw around with it. Mr. Murphy, and all that.
> 
> Anyway, I assume (bad word, that) that I still have all my config data.... I
> also have about 8 gigs of room on /home2 that I can use for 
> temp backup, so no probs there.... 
> 
> What I would like is some ideas about the best way to procede to restore the
> system without wiping out the rest of what is there. I 
> have the original 8.0 cds, so doing an rpm -i on all the kde packages would
> probably get it going. I worry about finding all the config 
> data first, though. 
> 
> Next question is what happened in the first place? Why did a simple upgrade
> process hose up the system? Are the files in the 
> mandrake8.0/kde system that buggy and, if so, why in hell are they still there?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Fred
> 


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Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>