Hi all, (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any mistakes...)
I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE 3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0, didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of specific packages in the mean time, though). aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest in squeeze). I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style, and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession". Now, I looked at the kdm package. dpkg -L told me that it provides a number of files in /etc/kde4/kdm/ (including kdmrc, but also Xsession and others). However, my /etc/kde4/kdm/ only contains kdmrc, no other files. I tried aptitude reinstall kdm, deleting the .deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives first to force a new download, I got the same result. The .deb file apparently contains these files (at least I see these files with a dpkg-deb -x), but for some reason they are not extracted (and my disk is far from full)! Just to try, I manually copied these files from the dpk-deb -x result to /etc/kde4/kdm, but I still got exactly the same behaviour, so I guess there is something more. Nonetheless, it shows that these files really exist in the .deb, so why are they not extracted? I also tried removing all packages in my system that seemed related to KDE and re-installing kde-full (which dragged along all KDE, including kdm), because it seemed I had a lot of old KDE 3 stuff hanging around (and a lot of other junk I hadn't used for a long time, like compiz, so a bit of house-cleaning was not useless...), but I still get the same behaviour. Does anybody have an idea of what's going on with this package, or of any tests I could run to find the problem? Thanks! -- Rémi Moyen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org