On Friday 05 April 2002 13:44, you wrote: > Hi, > > Until recently I was an happy user running LM8.1 and KDE2 for a while on my > dual AMD Linux box. Yesterday I just tried to install KDE3 official and my > story starts here: > > 1. no problem to install everything from the official rpms, so far so good > 2. first try to launch KDE3: > - ksplach crashes > - no more sounds > - all menus empty - hey, sounds familiar... > - about half of my desktop configured icons are corrupted > - kcontrol does not work anymore > 3. after a logout and trying to switch back to KDE2: > - first login within KDE2, kdm crashes > - second login is OK but some data files are corrupted - I am a quite > an experienced fox so I had a backup of my .kde and Desktop ! > - third login is OK, back to normal. > Good to see my stuff is still OK with KDE2 :-P > 4. after running update-menus and trying again > - still my splash screen crashes beautifully :-)) > - still no sounds :-( > - menus are OK now > - kcontrol is back > - but... big mess with the fonts and the language set up - guess what... > I am french and so I like these little tiny symbols we put on top of > "e" > > Finally, after a couple of hours trying to build something usable I gave > up. I will stay with my good KDE2 on top of 8.1, I don't feel things are > stable enougth to invest in 8.2 and KDE3 - well, yes I wrote *invest* as I > use Linux in my office, just fair for my company to buy it isn't ? > > Any clues about anything I missed or did wrong ??? > > Pierre.
Well, you could've tried to chuck out your .kde file in your home directory before starting kde3 or if you're not too sure about that: create a new user and start from there to take a look. If that works all right.............you've got a cleaning job to do :-) You're not doing bad though, at the time upgrading from kde1 to kde2 left me with a totally unusable Mandrake install. -- Good luck, Harm Bathoorn. "One has authority, until it's called on" Corto Maltese..Sign of the Capricorn;)
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