Re: Desktop disappears, everything else works
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:04:08 CST."
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This exact same thing happened to me this morning as well. I
use potato without the beta packages, and last night I did a
routine apt-get update/upgrade. Clearing things out of /tmp
as suggested did not work.
Also, the upgrade removed qps (which I use extensively)
due to dependency problems. KDE's port of qps does not
work properly... so does anybody know how I can get qps
reinstalled? Is it possible to have libqt2 (which qps
depends on) and libqt2.2 on the same machine? Or will qps
work with libqt2.2, in which case maybe it's dependencies
need to be revised?
> I've got a strange problem. This morning, when I logged in through
> kdm, kde started up, but the background was (still is) a neutral
> beige instead of the wallpaper I've been using for months. Also, no
> desktop icons show up, and no menus show up when I click on the
> desktop area (they should, shouldn't they?)
>
> I've opened up konqueror, and hit the "Desktop" icon, which shows
> everything that should be ON my desktop. Looking at the properties
> for that icon, it says that the last time the directory was modified,
> accessed and created was yesterday at the time I logged off
> yesterday. The rest of my home directory shows normal information
> like a creation date that comes many days/weeks/months before the
> last accessed or modified. That's my only clue.
>
> I'm running potato, and using all but the "optional" section from
> kde.rap.ucar.edu. The only change I can recall making yesterday, is
> removing that optional section from my sources.list file, and
> removing and re-installing ssh, so that it's version would match my
> firewall's ssh version. Re-adding that section and doing an "apt-get
> update; apt-get dist-upgrade --download-only" gives me the version of
> ssh that I replaced yesterday, and nothing else.
>
> I've tried stopping kdm and removing all of the /tmp files created by
> kde, but that had no affect.
>
>
> --
> Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you
> will hear the voice of Satan?
>
> That's nothing! If you play it forward, it'll install Windows 2000.
>
>
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