Re: Problem with upgrading to KDE 3.1.1 on Debian woody: finally solved
A Divendres 11 Abril 2003 12:01, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar va escriure:
From the end of the previous message:
> 2. How can I make xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 co-exist on my office machine?
at the university I have xfstt and kde3.1.1 installed and runing, but at home
no.
> Dear Folks at KDE and Debian,
>
> This is a follow up to Leo's detailed analysis of why KDE-3.1.1 kdm
> crashes on startup in Debian.
>
> I first experienced problems with the upgrade on my home machine; I
> posted to this group about ten days ago. I then tried an upgrade on my
> office this week and had the same problem noted before. My office
> machine has a default Debian testing distribution with a few unstable
> packages like mozilla.
>
> I give my comments below:
>
> Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> > A Dijous 03 Abril 2003 10:54, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda va escriure:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after some kind of fight betwend my old box, kde and I have a system
> > working now, and I "think" that I understand what happened.
> >
> > I did a purge of all kde, and qt as Ralf said in another message.
> >
> >>>apt-get remove --purge libqt3*
>
> Did this.
>
> > So I began to test what happended.
> >
> > I did a simple installation with a minimal X, and xdm and I installed
> > scribus that for dependency needed libqt-mt.
> >
> > And boom, I couldn't run scribus. The messages was (I'm sorry, I had to
> > have wrotten it) something like this
> > ~~~QFont: cannot set the font size to -1
>
> I removed all lib3t2 and libqt3 packages also.
>
> > In that time I had the Xserver configured with two fonts servers:
> > xft and xftt. The truetype fonts were managed by xftt because I thought
> > that it was better, but not. I don't know which are the difference
> > betwend libqt 3.1.2 and 3.1.1, but with 3.1.1 I didn't have any problem
> > but with the new version it was a nightmare.
>
> I think xfstt is the cause of the problem. Interestingly, I have libqt3
> release 3.1.2-0woody1 on both my home and office PCs.
>
> I too had xfstt on my system: kdm failed to startup; the X server also
> crashed. As root, if I did
>
> /etc/init.d/xfstt stop
>
> and started x, the X-server worked and KDE was available. If I
> re-booted (and xfstt was again up) the X-server and kdm again crashed.
>
> So I did
>
> apt-get remove xfstt
>
> and re-booted and things were perfect.
>
> However, on my home PC, I can and do have xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 running
> together.
>
> This points to xfstt being part of the cause of kdm crashing, but maybe
> not the sole cause.
>
> I conclude that xfstt holds the clue to the answer of the problem on my
> office machine, perhaps in conjunction with x-server* packages.
>
> I have the following questions and comments:
>
> 1. Why does xfstt co-exist with KDE-3.1.1 on my home PC but not my
> office PC? (I ensured that xfstt was the same release 1.2.1-1 on both.
> The xservers* debs are however 4.1.0-16 and 4.2.1-3 respectively.)
>
> 2. How can I make xfstt and KDE-3.1.1 co-exist on my office machine?
>
> 3. Does the Debian defoma font manager hold the key to this problem? (I
> recall that the KDE control centre did not recognize the tt font
> locations when I last tried it out. Do KDE and defoma talk?)
>
> 4. The gnome desktop and sawfish window manager can co-exist with xfstt
> and were operational when KDE-3.1.1 kdm failed.
>
> > So, I removed xftt, and configured xfs to manage truetype and all is
> > working.. Well, I have to say that I also suffered the bug about the
> > kdelibs-data with the ui/ui_standards.rc. file (and several files more.)
>
> Leo, please let me know by individual e-mail how you configured xfs to
> manage truetype. Many thanks for your help.
>
> > Otherwise, thank's for your help.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Leo
>
> --Chandra
> 11 Apr 03
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> Australian Research Centre for Medical Engineering
> Murdoch University
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