Re: Unstable KDE Dies

[Mike Scott <mike@plokta.com>]

Mike Scott <mike@plokta.com> writes:

> I'm running a system based on woody, and the KDE2.1 potato packages
> were installed and working fine. I tried to upgrade to the ones from
> unstable, and every KDE app I tried to run crashed on startup (I'm not
> actually running KDE as a window manager or desktop, but calling
> individual KDE applications from Window Maker). I also tried running
> the full KDE and after displaying a grey screen and mouse cursor for a
> while it crashed out back to the $ prompt with no error message.
> 
> I'm using libfreetype6 version 2.0.1-1, so it's not that problem. When
> I downgraded libqt2 (& libqt2.2) from 2.3.0-final-1 to
> 2.3.0-final-0.potato1, everything started working again.

I found the solution from a comment on the kde-user list, if anyone
else has the same problem. I had some .fon files and a .ini in my
truetype font directory. When I deleted everything but the .ttf files
plus fonts.dir and fonts.scale, everything started working.

-- 
Mike Scott
mike@plokta.com