On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote: > 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". >
This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will work. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org