Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working -- SOLVED
On Saturday 25 June 2005 17:58, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> --- Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:
> > Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to
> >
> > sarge.
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > >However on login, the X server appears to shut
> > > down (and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I log
> > > in and after some flashing of screens for a
> > > second or two
> >
> > I
> >
> > >find myself back at the login screen again.
> >
> > Is it just KDE? Try a different wm/environment.
> >
> > Is it just from gdm? What happens if you kill gdm
> > and try "startx"?
> >
> > Is it just your user? What if you try as a
> > different user?
> >
> > Perhaps you need to move/delete any KDE stuff from
> > your home directory?
> >
> > --
> > Kent
> >
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> Thanks for the ideas -- a couple of things I should
> have mentioned in the original post:
>
> If I select a GNOME session then I log in OK
> (although it's complaining about keyboard settings
> being missing / screwed up, even though the keyboard
> proceeds to work fine). I'm not surprised as I never
> used GNOME session before and so never bothered to
> configure it properly.
>
> If I try as KDE there are no errors in the X server
> log but the KDE error log shows it couldn't find the
> KDE2 program and thus bombs. It's doing something
> like:
>
> if [! -n `which "$WM"`]; then
> echo "Can't find ...{can't remember exact
> words}, exiting..."
> exit 1
> fi
>
> And that's the error in my .kde2-errors file in my
> home dir. $WM is set at the start of the script to
> kde2.
>
> I noticed a kde2.sh in /etc/X11/kde2 -- what does
> that do and if I tinker with this shell script to
> point at that instead will I do more damage?
>
> So yes it seems to be just KDE. As to whether it's
> just gdm I don't know as I haven't tried another
> display manager -- maybe will uninstall gdm and try
> kdm as a next step, see if that gets me further. But
> I'd still like to know, for education purposes, what
> the problem actually is here...
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
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removing and re-installing gdm sorted it. I note now I
am running kde3.3 into the bargain...
Thanks all for your suggestions.
Mark
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