In 7/4/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
070704 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I have been using KDE for a long long time. > Suddenly it's not there any more. > anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. > The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me > that my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid and would be removed. > Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session. > My only choices seem to be fluxbox and failsafe. > My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE > that I found in the Gentoo docs. You may have reasons for doing it this way, but I keep it much simpler. I boot to a raw login prompt, login there, then enter 'startx'. I have a file ~/.xinitrc ('dbus-launch' is to enable Epiphany) : xscreensaver & dbus-launch startkde If I want (rarely) to start Fluxbox, I have another file ~/.xinitrc-fb : xscreensaver & fluxbox which I copy 'cp .xinitrc-fb .xinitrc' (keeping a copy of the KDE version). I don't use Kdm at all, thus avoiding the kind of problem you've run into & which I too ran into a few years ago. I recommend unmerging all your existing KDE material, then remerging the latest 3.5.7 (which I've been using since 070610) using whatever individual packages you need. Then keep it upto-date.
Absent a strong reason, I'll stick to stable X86, which seems to be 3.5.5. Anyway, as noted above, the problem turned out to be that my first --depclean got rid of kdebase-startkde. Re-emerging it got me going again. Thanks, all, for your time and attention. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD