Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3
Before you do anything drastic, I just ran into something very
similar. However, I found that the middle mouse button still brought
up a menu. I went from their to the control center (or maybe to
configure desktop) and I fiddled around until I found the place that
controlled the bar at the bottom (I think that's the kicker).
Eventually, the bar appeared on my desktop.
I built KDE3 from sources, installed it in a non-standard location,
and generally could have made lots of mistakes. But since we both saw
this, maybe there's something wrong with the initial setup logic. I
did get a nice little wizard when I first logged in asking me to set
some options....
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:36:45PM -0800, Carl Nelson wrote:
> Thomas,
> 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.
>
> 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?
> Sure feeling like it's - reformat, reinstall and hang tight with KDE2 or
> gnome.
>
> ...Carl
> From: th.ritter@gmx.net [mailto:th.ritter@gmx.net]
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 2:30 PM
> To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3
>
> Am Samstag, 16. November 2002 22:30 schrieb Carl Nelson:
> > In upgrading a fresh woody binary installation (the default 2.4 kernel
> > installation) from the Debian 3.0 CD, the kicker panel is trashed. I no
> > longer have access to the Applications/Start menu, desktop-pager, or
> > windows. The only non-standard thing I am running is a matrox 450 dual
> > head.
>
> Have you tried a clean ~/.kde dir? When it comes to importing config files
> from another major KDE version, _some_ things work. I had to completely
> reconfigure nearly everything from KDE1->KDE2 and from KDE2->KDE3.
>
> do a
> tar cvfz ~/kdesettings.tgz ~/.kde*
> to make all changes undoable and "rm -rf ~/.kde*" completely. Re-login and
> see
> if it works. You have a complete backup of everything you need to
> reconfigure
> your KDE.
> If it really works, you may want to restore the .kde-directories and delete
> things file for file, first the kicker settings, then maybe kwm settings...
>
> If it doesn't work, just restore your old .kde-directories and search for a
> software solution. Look at the ML archive, there are plenty of KDE3-Versions
> for debian, 3.0.5 is on the way at the moment, maybe something is broken
> because of this.
>
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