Hi all, I've been getting acquainted with Linux for a year now and it has become my everyday desktop system with occasional unavoidable visits to Win98 that often end with a blue screen when rebooting. My current system is an upgrade from Corel Linux 1.2 to potato 2.2r with recently added *.deb packages of KDE 2.1.1, running the 2.2.19 kernel compiled from source.
A few weeks ago I had tried 2.0, later installed KDE 2.1., now manually deinstalled and purged all packages with dpkg, installed 2.1.1 with dpkg from an amateur CD with a layout that unfortunately did not contain the package summary files needed by apt-get. Then I completed and corrected the install with apt-get in the course of which I had to -f upgrade libc I believe and something else that I forgot the name of. Some KDE1-apps are still functional with the KDE1 libs that I left on the system. I changed the qt-dir and path to /usr/lib where qt 2.2.3 now resides. KDE 2.1.1. runs well, did not crash yet and the stuff I found buggy under 2.1. is mostly fixed. KSysV-InitEditor crashes immediately, however, and Kuser changes often won't stick. When I start an application, the little panel icon that indicates the starting process is comes twofold but the apps start. I compiled KMLOFax, an excellent fax storage modem program of which the KDE1 version works fine. I had a mail exchange with its programmer and we are now sure that my system configureation must somewhere be faulty: The binary can be compiled but it and another small KDE 2 app from someone else that I compiled crash immediately with a segfault and no other error messages. Apt-get check gives no error messages, and everything else seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas which versions of what libs, binaries or config stuff I might want to check before building a whole new system with Woody's testing version or doing something else that my be stupid? All suggestions welcome ... Best Regards, -- AvH Pfäfers, Switzerland