Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Carlos Kosloff
I edited group and added sddm, as syntax below. Had to do dpkg-reconfigure sddm because default was set to kdm. sddm started but it is broken, display is garbled, had to go back to terminal and do startx startkde. I think that I have to download packages from unstable, will see if that works.

Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Sami Erjomaa
On 31 October 2015 at 17:18, Carlos Kosloff wrote: > "I'm not sure if that bug is in 0.5.1. It was in 0.6.0. What worked for me > was to add user sddm to video group in /etc/group" > > Hmmm...I have this entry in /etc/group *sddm:x:131:* is this what you are > talking about? > Otherwise I could do

Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Carlos Kosloff
"I'm not sure if that bug is in 0.5.1. It was in 0.6.0. What worked for me was to add user sddm to video group in /etc/group" Hmmm...I have this entry in /etc/group *sddm:x:131:* is this what you are talking about? Otherwise I could do *adduser sddm video* as root. Also, without changing anyth

Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Sami Erjomaa
On 31 October 2015 at 16:57, Carlos Kosloff wrote: > > Indeed, my card uses nvidia and glx-alternative-nvidia is 0.5.1. > So is glx-diversions and glx-alternative-mesa. > What to do? There is no upgrade for these packages in testing. > -- > On 10/31/2015 10:48 AM, Sami

Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Sami Erjomaa
On 31 October 2015 at 16:30, Carlos Kosloff wrote: > If you follow this list you are aware of my efforts to get kde to start > normally. > I am aware that many of you have succeeded, maybe some did not, I am among > the latter. > Different systems and hardware react differently, I have a computer

Re: kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Carlos Kosloff
Indeed, my card uses nvidia and glx-alternative-nvidia is 0.5.1. So is glx-diversions and glx-alternative-mesa. What to do? There is no upgrade for these packages in testing. On 10/31/2015 10:48 AM, Sami Erjomaa wrote: On 3

Re: dist-upgrade still failing

2015-10-31 Thread Carlos Kosloff
Did you run 'dpkg-reconfigure kdm' after installing kdm? Thanks for answer but it didn't make any difference.

kde does not start normally

2015-10-31 Thread Carlos Kosloff
If you follow this list you are aware of my efforts to get kde to start normally. I am aware that many of you have succeeded, maybe some did not, I am among the latter. Different systems and hardware react differently, I have a computer that works fine with sddm, but in my main system sddm throw

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-31 Thread Luc Castermans
Gents, I enjoy KDE5 desktop (testing / unstable) since quite some weeks now. Quite usable it is! Thanks for your efforts, I will use it, thereby helping to mature it. Many, many, thanks. Luc 2015-10-31 14:38 GMT+01:00 Martin Steigerwald : > Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015, 17:57:03 CET schrieb M

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015, 17:57:03 CET schrieb Matthias Bodenbinder: > Full acknowledge! > > I am not an early adopter. If I would be somebody who likes bleeding edge > software with all the risks I would be using sid.I am using debian testing > because it is supposed to be a good compromise.

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015, 10:20:58 CET schrieb Gary Dale: > On 30/10/15 04:49 AM, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > On Friday 30 October 2015 00:09:31 Gary Dale wrote: > >> On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > >>> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 > >>> Gary Dale wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello Gary, >

Re: plasma desktop broken again :(

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 30. Oktober 2015, 00:09:31 CET schrieb Gary Dale: > On 29/10/15 04:54 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 09:54:22 -0400 > > Gary Dale wrote: > > > > Hello Gary, > > > >> And not wanting to rehash that old argument, the current system is > >> clearly not working. Surely al

Re: Behold of qt5x11extras5

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015, 15:05:37 CET schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 09:44:16 -0400 > Carlos Kosloff wrote: […] > >I need to work on that computer, please help. > > I installed LXDE (apt-get install lxde), and am currently running that > after a console login and then running 's

Re: Behold of qt5x11extras5

2015-10-31 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2015, 15:40:53 CET schrieb Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer: > It seems that qt5x11extras5 migrated to testing when it shouldn't have. This > seems to be causing crashes for many. The workaround is to keep the 5.4 > until the rest of qt 5.5 enters testing or update to s

Re: dist-upgrade still failing

2015-10-31 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/30/2015 04:50 PM, Carlos Kosloff wrote: Thanks for all answers, this is my report. This is the list of commands I tried: as root: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade, 0 packages apt-get purge lightdm apt-get autoremove --purge apt-get install --reinstall kdm apt-get install kde-full apt-