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Re: KDE does not start after upgrade



Hi Jonathan, 

that worked perfectly! Thank you very much, you made my day!

Regards,

Michael

Am Sa, den 13.03.2004 schrieb Jonathan Byrne um 20:43:
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 07:43:03PM +0100, Michael Brohl wrote:
> 
> >I've upgraded my unstable Debian via apt-get upgrade and now KDE does
> >not start anymore. The graphical login appears, but after logging in
> >there's only the wallpaper and the mouse cursor visible.
> 
> That happened to me last weekend, and Ricardo Galli quickly replied with
> this fix:
> 
> "Yes, but it was solved by selecting kde session in the kdm menu. And the
> waiting few minutes because it was recreating fonts due to a X's
> misconfiguration: add -dpi 100 (or whatever was before)
> to /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers"
> 
> Edit /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers as noted above, select KDE from the session
> menu, and you should be find.
> 
> My workaround before that was using gdm instead of kdm, until I found
> out what the problem was.  Now I'm back to using kdm and it works fine.
> Like you, I crawled through all the logs looking for some indication of
> failure and came up blank, googled for quite a while, and then turned
> to this list and quickly got the answer.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Jonathan



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