Re: Problems with KDE4 upgrade
On Tuesday 07 Apr 2009, Modestas Vainius wrote: > Hello, > > ensure kde4-minimal is installed. Thanks - that solved everything (including allowing kaboom to run) One thing that happened was that it conflicted with kde-compiz (also left over from earlier experiments) which I was happy to remove -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Problems with KDE4 upgrade
Hello, ensure kde4-minimal is installed. -- Modestas Vainius signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Problems with KDE4 upgrade
> HOWEVER attempting to restart kdm it failed prompting that "Greeter > plugin was not configured", so was unable to enter an X session (gdm is > also installed but not configured to run). You probably let kdebase-workspace-bin be uninstalled during upgrade. Please *read* what you let aptitude do. /Sune > > I tried removing it and then re-installing it - no change - still > prompts for this message > > I tried running genkdmconf with selecting the /etc/kde3 old path and > with selecting no old kde as two separate attempts. Both times, no > change. > > I then ran dpkg-reconfigure gdm and made it the default display manager. > When it started, it asked me if I wanted to use kde.desktop as my > session. I said yes, but it just hung my machine solid. I was unable > to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X, and I was unable to Ctrl-Alt-Del to > reboot. Only way to shut machine down was to remove power. > > I am now writing this e-mail by installing Gnome-Desktop, and then > running kmail (1.11.2 from KDE 4.2.2). All my old mails are intact, and > the dates seem correct (although the threading - or rather lack of it - > setting on one of my local folders does not seem remembered). > > I am not sure where to go now. I would like to get back my kde session. > I guess the first problem is to understand why kdm is generating this > error message > -- > Alan Chandler > http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Problems with KDE4 upgrade
Let me preface this mail by saying I have run kde4 before from experimental (sometime in 2008) but that my ~/.kde4 directory was removed before I started the upgrade. I have been running UNSTABLE and kde 3.5 I started the updgrade this morning from within a konsole window using aptitude in interactive mode. Seemingly all the packages were updated, although it has taken several loops of allowing some packages to be removed to satisfy impossible dependences. The (in)famous kaboom was installed, but has never run. Once the upgrade was supposidely complete, I exited my kde session, exited to a root screen (not in x) and stopped kdm. HOWEVER attempting to restart kdm it failed prompting that "Greeter plugin was not configured", so was unable to enter an X session (gdm is also installed but not configured to run). I tried removing it and then re-installing it - no change - still prompts for this message I tried running genkdmconf with selecting the /etc/kde3 old path and with selecting no old kde as two separate attempts. Both times, no change. I then ran dpkg-reconfigure gdm and made it the default display manager. When it started, it asked me if I wanted to use kde.desktop as my session. I said yes, but it just hung my machine solid. I was unable to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X, and I was unable to Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot. Only way to shut machine down was to remove power. I am now writing this e-mail by installing Gnome-Desktop, and then running kmail (1.11.2 from KDE 4.2.2). All my old mails are intact, and the dates seem correct (although the threading - or rather lack of it - setting on one of my local folders does not seem remembered). I am not sure where to go now. I would like to get back my kde session. I guess the first problem is to understand why kdm is generating this error message -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
