Re: [newbie] KDE problems
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 16:05, Kristjan wrote: Hi after upgrade to 9.1 I have two problems when I start KDE First error comes immediately after startup Kinit could not launch usr/bin/autostart truth is that there is no such file. Clicking on 'Removable Media' or 'Trash' it runs Cervisia and starts claiming that it is not a CVS catalog. I wonder how is Cervisia connected to my desktop and how to get rid of this error. uninstalling that did not change anything.. then it was claiming that it is not able to run cervisia. Also all the shortcuts I do to desctop also want to run with cervisia. Please anybody advise. Kristjan Probably the best way to resolve this issue is to logout, login as root, delete the ~/home/yournamegoeshere/.kde directory, logout and login as you, then start up KDE again... -- Sat Apr 5 20:00:00 EST 2003 20:00:00 up 15 days, 7:47, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.13, 0.15 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor -- ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Out of sight is out of mind. -- Arthur Clough Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE problems
Hi after upgrade to 9.1 I have two problems when I start KDE First error comes immediately after startup Kinit could not launch usr/bin/autostart truth is that there is no such file. Clicking on 'Removable Media' or 'Trash' it runs Cervisia and starts claiming that it is not a CVS catalog. I wonder how is Cervisia connected to my desktop and how to get rid of this error. uninstalling that did not change anything.. then it was claiming that it is not able to run cervisia. Also all the shortcuts I do to desctop also want to run with cervisia. Please anybody advise. Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde problems...
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 12:49, - netmaniac - wrote: Thanks very much for the answer! Can I remove KDE simply using rpm -e command and what files I must delete in order to get rid of it? netmaniac If you initially installed via RPM, you should be able to do that - if not, then you're going to have to do it by hand - which really sucks - but DOES give you a fair understanding of the file structures. -- Sat Nov 16 21:25:00 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 What I tell you three times is true. -- Lewis Carroll Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde problems...
On 16 Nov 2002 21:29:34 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 12:49, - netmaniac - wrote: Thanks very much for the answer! Can I remove KDE simply using rpm -e command and what files I must delete in order to get rid of it? netmaniac If you initially installed via RPM, you should be able to do that - if not, then you're going to have to do it by hand - which really sucks - but DOES give you a fair understanding of the file structures. Could also just run the remove software gui and click on the kde desktop and it will uninstall everything that Mandrake had installed as part of KDE desktop. Or, if that's too extreme, select all packages and then click on kdebase. That will uninstall most of KDE and you can go through the list and uninstall any KDE things that the packager didn't do automatically. Of course, for either of these, you shouldn't be using KDE while trying to uninstall it. Joeb Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde problems...
Thanks very much for the answer! Can I remove KDE simply using rpm -e command and what files I must delete in order to get rid of it? netmaniac From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] kde problems... Date: 15 Nov 2002 11:29:39 +1100 I've upgraded the KDE desktop from the version 2.2 to 3.0.4. The upgrade proccess went ok but strange things are happenning. The desktop icons sometimes disapear and konqueror freezes all the time, forcing me to kill it and the KOffice no longer works. How can I fix this? netmaniac Every time that I've upgraded KDE, things were not good. I've found that by getting rid of KDE then installing the latest is always the better move. Sorry to say, mate. Are you able to do that under your current circumstances? (Or, if you're brave, what about deleting all references to KDE in your home directory, then starting up KDE again? - there are dotfiles that you can blow out - and as well, in the /tmp directory there are references to KDE that can be wiped out as well) Peace! -- Fri Nov 15 11:25:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Meantime, in the slums below Ronnie's Ranch, Cynthia feels as if some one has made voodoo boxen of her and her favorite backplanes. On this fine moonlit night, some horrible persona has been jabbing away at, dragging magnets over, and surging these voodoo boxen. Fortunately, they seem to have gotten a bit bored and fallen asleep, for it looks like Cynthia may get to go home. However, she has made note to quickly put together a totem of sweaty, sordid static straps, random bits of wire, flecks of once meaniful oxide, bus grant cards, gummy worms, and some bits of old pdp backplane to hang above the machine room. This totem must be blessed by the old and wise venerable god of unibus at once, before the idolatization of vme, q and pc bus drive him to bitter revenge. Alas, if this fails, and the voodoo boxen aren't destroyed, there may be more than worms in the apple. Next, the arrival of voodoo optico transmitigational magneto killer paramecium, capable of teleporting from cable to cable, screen to screen, ear to ear and hoof to mouth... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _ MSN Messenger: converse com os seus amigos online. http://messenger.msn.com.br Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] kde problems...
I've upgraded the KDE desktop from the version 2.2 to 3.0.4. The upgrade proccess went ok but strange things are happenning. The desktop icons sometimes disapear and konqueror freezes all the time, forcing me to kill it and the KOffice no longer works. How can I fix this? netmaniac _ MSN Hotmail, o maior webmail do Brasil. http://www.hotmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kde problems...
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 11:19, - netmaniac - wrote: I've upgraded the KDE desktop from the version 2.2 to 3.0.4. The upgrade proccess went ok but strange things are happenning. The desktop icons sometimes disapear and konqueror freezes all the time, forcing me to kill it and the KOffice no longer works. How can I fix this? netmaniac Every time that I've upgraded KDE, things were not good. I've found that by getting rid of KDE then installing the latest is always the better move. Sorry to say, mate. Are you able to do that under your current circumstances? (Or, if you're brave, what about deleting all references to KDE in your home directory, then starting up KDE again? - there are dotfiles that you can blow out - and as well, in the /tmp directory there are references to KDE that can be wiped out as well) Peace! -- Fri Nov 15 11:25:01 EST 2002 |____ | | / \ /| |'-. | | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | | | / \__.`=._) (_ |kuhn media australia | |/ ._/ || |http://kma.0catch.com | |'. `\ | | |stephen kuhn | ;/ / | | |email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | smk ) /_/| |.---.| |mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' |linux user:267497 Meantime, in the slums below Ronnie's Ranch, Cynthia feels as if some one has made voodoo boxen of her and her favorite backplanes. On this fine moonlit night, some horrible persona has been jabbing away at, dragging magnets over, and surging these voodoo boxen. Fortunately, they seem to have gotten a bit bored and fallen asleep, for it looks like Cynthia may get to go home. However, she has made note to quickly put together a totem of sweaty, sordid static straps, random bits of wire, flecks of once meaniful oxide, bus grant cards, gummy worms, and some bits of old pdp backplane to hang above the machine room. This totem must be blessed by the old and wise venerable god of unibus at once, before the idolatization of vme, q and pc bus drive him to bitter revenge. Alas, if this fails, and the voodoo boxen aren't destroyed, there may be more than worms in the apple. Next, the arrival of voodoo optico transmitigational magneto killer paramecium, capable of teleporting from cable to cable, screen to screen, ear to ear and hoof to mouth... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE problems
On Thursday 31 January 2002 01:35, Alex Fite-Wassilak wrote: I tried renaming my .kde/ to .kdebak/ then the .kderc file to .kdercbak, but when I start KDE it still crashes. I created a .xinitrc file, but since I don't know much about it, it's kind of a hack job. I can start the gnome panel, and gnome-session, as well as sawfish. I didn't try anything else, so far. It's not really the fully-functional gnome environment, but at least I can start X this way without crashing. Did you encounter a similar situation? Any other ideas? I was thinking about posting this to the advanced user list to see what they had to say as well... Thanks in advance. Alex I installed kde2.2.2 last night and did not encounter any problems. I logged out of X into console and used rpm -Uvh, then startx. Kde started fine. The fact that you can start kde without problems as root indicates that its most likely some sort of configuration file in your user directory (user home dir) thats causing your problems. I just created a new user (joebloggs) as a test and it works. When I logged in and started X as joebloggs it ran MandrakeFirstTime and set the default files in joebloggs' home dir. So I suppose you could backup your own home dir (use tar) to another dir (you could put the tar backup file in say /usr/local/). Start kde as root and delete your user account and your user home dir. Then recreate your user account and log out of X. Now start kde as user and MandrakeFirstTime should run and create default files in your new home dir. You could then untar your backup file in /usr/local/ and cp the files that you want to your new home dir. I would only copy a few files at a time and restart kde in case one of the copied files is the culprit. Does that make sense? A bit confusing I know. I used userdrake - just type userdrake without the quotes in a console as root. If you do try the above, be sure to backup first. Or if you don't want to do the above perhaps you could repost your question to the list in the hope that someone else can tell you which is the offending file in your home dir. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] KDE problems
On Wednesday 30 January 2002 07:58, Alex Fite-Wassilak wrote: Hi, I'm running LM 8.1 on a dell inspiron 8000. Everything had worked pretty smoothly until I recently downloaded all the new KDE 2.2.2 packages. I put them all in a folder in my home directory, then did rpm -Fvh the install went off without an apparent hitch, but when I rebooted KDE crashed on startup and then donesn't do anything. I have to restart the X-server (ctl-alt-backspace) to get back to the kde display manager (the login thingee). It says that ksplash is getting a SIGGENV signal. sometimes it says it's the kmsserver. I tried to rpm -Uvh --force the old packages from the distribution, but everytime I boot it's the same thing. even with the old packages. Also, I accidentally started x as root, and it worked fine. no hang-ups. I'm a little confused what the problem is. Anyone encounter a similar problem or know how I might get kde running again? Any little hint is appreciated. Thanks in advance. Alex You could try renaming your ~/.kde directory to ~/.kde-old and see if it makes a new one. If it does, you could then copy any special configs from your .kde-old directory while keeping an eye out for the offending file that prevents kde from starting. Might me worth a try. If it doesn't work you could rename it back to ~/.kde until you find the solution. Can you start Gnome or any other wm? skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] KDE problems
Hi all, I have installed Mandrake 7.02 numerous times and I now have a pretty good feel of the buttons to push, I even do it with my eyes closed, hehe... Seriously, my problem is with KDEit seems to start up fine but just before the icons appear on screen, I get KFM error messages that 'this MIME type wasn't found' or something. I get as many messages as the MIME types supported, and when I OK all the windows, icons and taskbar finally appear. But all the icons on the Desktop are those papers with a question mark (probably general unknown icon?) and whatever I try to click gives me a window that asks what program to associate this link with. So I guess the KDE installation is incomplete, or corrupted. However, I noticed that everytime I do either an install or an upgrade, on reboot my root partition comes up with errors and a check is forced. During the check, many files (most in /var/spool) are changed to filetype 6. (yeah I know, I'm RTFM at the same time :-) Does this mean that my hard disk might have tons of bad sectors? (It WAS acting up somehow, before I decided to put linux on him). And if so, is there a way to mark them as such, prior to upgrading, and do a reinstallation on the healthy remaining disk? It seems that whenever I reinstall or upgrade, the same files get the same errors. I'm not even sure if these errors have anything to do with my KDE not working, but it seems very likely. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, GG
