Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3
On Sunday 17 November 2002 13:24, Michael Shuey wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0800, Carl Nelson wrote:
> > I appreciate your advice ...
> > I had not tired: rm -rf ~/.kde*
> > But when I did and restarted the 'Kpersonalizer' window came up blank and
> > hung.
> > After I CTL-ALT-BackSpace'd and logged-in again, the interface is in
> > worse shape than before.
> > A minimal desktop top, desktop menus work, but this time with a
> > completely blank 'kicker' and apps hang in about 20-seconds of mousing
> > around.
>
> That's the exact behavior I got when I tried KDE 3.1rc2 on my dual-head
> machine (Radeon VE). Everything's just kinda frozen...
>
> When I comment out the "Option Xinerama" line in my XF86Config-4 KDE
> starts just fine. Of course, then my screens are separate and I can't
> drag windows between them, but at least KDE works right.
>
> If I had to guess I'd say KDE wasn't built with all the Xinerama stuff
> turned on correctly. Either that or there's a big upstream bug with
> Xinerama.
>
> > When I tar -xzvf kdesettings.tgz the settings, the interface does not go
> > back to where things were before, it remains broken
> > At this point is KDE to messed up to recover?
> > Can apt-get or dpkg help out here to get back to KDE2?
>
> If you're using Debian packages for KDE3.x you probably added a line to
> your /etc/apt/sources.list to bring them in. If so, just remove that
> line, fire up dselect (yes, dselect - sometimes a package picker is
> nice, no matter how awful it is to use), update, then remove all the
> KDE3 packages (which should now be listed as "Obsolete/local packages".
> Then install KDE2 or gnome. That's worked for me in the past.
Removing kdelibs (the revelant version for the KDE you wish to remove)
is the quickest way to remove all the KDE packages, as everything depends
on it.
>
> If you can remove all the KDE3 packages you won't need to reformat and
> reinstall.
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