Re: KDE 3.2.1 broken

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Zack Cerza writes:

> I've upgraded a couple of boxen (one from 3.2.0, one from 3.1.4) and
> here's a couple common problems I've seen and the solutions that
> worked for me:

> Empty KMenu: dpkg --force-depends -P kicker && dpkg -i
> /var/cache/apt/archives/kicker_4% 3a3.2.1-1_i386.deb

> Logging into KDM gives you a borderless xterm: Before you login
> inside kdm, make sure to select your session type as KDE - the
> dist-upgrade wipes the kdmrc, and the default seems to be 'failsafe'
> which is the lone xterm thing.

This is prolly because you have used the experimental 3.2 packages, it
should not occur when you only used standard unstable packages.

> Various package breakage while dist-upgrading: Just run dist-upgrade
> a few more times. After I ran it 5 times, there were no more
> errors. I didn't do anything else special.

Strange, I didn't either, and have not seen any error.

cheers
domi