Re: KDE 3.5.7 in unstable and yes, we're working in KDE 4!

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Ana Guerrero wrote, on 2007-05-22 22:13:
> Hello,
>
> KDE 3.5.7 is being released today and it is already available in unstable.
> If you're using i386 the update should go fine, if you're using another
> arch, like amd64, some packages will not be available for your arch yet.
>
> If you update while you're using your desktop enviroment and you notice 
> some strange behaviour, please restart your desktop enviroment. 
>
> At the same time we have been working in kde 3.5.7, we have started to work 
> in packaging KDE 4, and we're aiming to publish packages for the next
> official development snapshot.
>
> If you want to know how to contribute, take a look at our website:
> http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/
>
> Ana

I had major problems with my upgrade.

After rebooting having installed kde 3.5.7-1, I would get the graphical 
login screen, but once I logged in I was left with the blue background 
and nothing else. The mouse moved and I could use ctrl alt F1 .. F6 and 
ctrl alt backspace but I could not get the desktop loading.

I finally returned to the desktop by some difficult to reproduce method 
of copying the /var/run/xauth/* file to ~/.Xauthority attempting to 
login via VT7 and then in a console session setting DISPLAY to ":0.0" 
and running startkde.

I'm at a real loss on how to go about finding the actual problem and
fixing things properly. Any suggestions?

(I'm copying this into Debian bug #425526, where I reported this).

Arthur.