Re: Problems with upgrading a fresh woody installtion to kde3
On Sunday 17 November 2002 05:24 am, Michael Shuey wrote:
Thanks for the advice on using dselect, I'm still learning about APT. After
many hours of unloading and reloading KDE3.x I whimpped out and reloaded
everything. It was a very fresh machine and it was easy to do. It never
occured to me to turn off Xinerama I was a bit focused on getting it to run
dual head. I'll give it a try.
> 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.
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