On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:45:27 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > 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 > For me, KDE didn't boot using KDM at all (most likely a security setting). However, KDM has an option to login without X and startx still works (no solution but good enough for me till everything is fixed).
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