Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3
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.
If you can remove all the KDE3 packages you won't need to reformat and
reinstall.
--
Mike Shuey
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