Jamie Kerwick wrote: > Hi there, > > I've recently installed the latest rpm updates from various sources > (mainly kde 3.4 updates). Now when I log in, instead of getting my > chosen window manager, i just get a console window. This is regardless > of whether i choose gnome, kde, xfce4 etc.. > > I can still run kde apps though (i currently have amarok playing away, > reletively happily.). > > (i have X automatically starting on boot up. the login manager is the > mandrake one.) > > Another slight oddity is that all of the system user accounts appear > in the list of users to login as. They never used to. > > I am using Mandrake 10.1. > > I have no idea where to start looking, so any help would be greatfully > received. > > thanks, > > Jamie > > Jamie, This is one of the drawbacks of upgrading using non-Mandrake RPMs. This is complicated by the way everything is intertwined in KDE. It is almost as bad as Windows. To make things more interesting, exactly where to look is affected by where the KDE 4.3 RPMs are from. I can think of two places to start looking for your problems. The first is the system configuration menus in KDE. The second is the /etc/X11 directory tree.
Mikkel PS - you may want to look in the list archives about how to fix your Reply To: settings, or put a note in you messages that you are a gmail user, so messages go back to the list. -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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