My experience upgrading to KDE4
Well, I took the plunge today upgrading to KDE4. I've tracked Sid for
several years and never has it broken like today. :-D
Installation of the mysqld package is hopelessly broken and hangs, only
Ctl-C will break out of the install script. A number of packages
complain about hal not being configured. Such is the "fun" of the new
Free Desktop.
I found kdm wouldn't start and the Debian User list recommended
installing the desktop-base package which I did and now KDM starts, but
I have no keyboard or mouse! I can't even get to a shell prompt. I
guess the joke's on me. Fortunately, I have a boot menu option for a
shell prompt so I can fix things as I receive advice. I guess the
first order of business is fixing hal, but I don't see a bug that
discusses a broken upgrade yet. Perhaps I need to remove it and
reinstall it.
Fortunately, this is my test laptop so I'm not experimenting on
something that matters at the moment.
- Nate >>
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