Re: KDE 4

["M. Lewis" <cajun@cajuninc.com>]

thveillon.debian wrote:
> M. Lewis a écrit :
> > Following the instructions at
> > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html
> >
> > Is it a problem that aptitude wants to uninstall kde (as well as LOTS of
> > other s/w)?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Mike

[snip]

> >
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed kde4 from experimental on a testing system not long ago, and
> in my experience full kde3 and full kde4 can't live peacefully together
> on the same system... So what's not upgradeable from kde3 is removed.
> kde being a vitual package, if only one of the real packages it depends
> on is removed the virtual package has to be removed altogether. Nothing
> to be alarmed of if what you want is kde4.
>
> Tom

I installed KDE4.2 on a testing system as well (VirtualBox is great!). I 
first installed Lenny, then updated, upgraded to Sid, upgraded to 
experimental, and then followed the procedure mentioned above.

The first two times I did this, I got "(kdmgreet) crashed and caused the 
signal 11(SIGSEGV)". This prevented X from starting. If I tried to start 
kdm via /etc/init.d/kdm start, it complained about something like 
'--old-kde doesn't start with /share/apps' or something similar to that. 
I should have written it down verbatim. I never was able to resolve that 
issue. I could start X by 'startx' at the console, however it brought up 
a Gnome session rather than KDE.

The third time I tried this on VirtualBox, it worked fine. No issues at all.

If someone might know what caused the error the first two times, I would 
certainly be interesting in learning the solution.

Thanks,
Mike


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