Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )
lee wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:22:32PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
>> I agree with Boyd in his understanding of your post. What is the use of
>> language if you say one thing that a reasonable person would understand
>> but meant something completely different? If a reasonable receiver does
>> not understand the message as intended, the communication was faulty.
>
> Misunderstandings are always possible.
Sure, but you didn't show similar understanding, and were not forgiving,
while replying to Boyd's reasonable explanation how he interpreted your
writing.
>
> I haven't said that mysql is necessary for a working kde. What I have
> said is that it doesn't work anymore after the last update during
> which I refused to install a mysql server.
See further below.
>> Perhaps you should see what exactly is broken.
>
> I already mentioned about 3 or 4 times in this thread that kdm, when
> it tries to start, says that there is no greeting widget and that I
> should check the configuration. I'm merely expecting it to work
> because no packages are broken, no dependencies are unfulfilled, and I
> didn't mess with kdm in any way. I'm also not very inclined to figure
> out what the error message is supposed to tell me and how to fix it
> because it's not that important that I'd want to spend hours on
> that. Maybe it fixes itself after some updates.
Have you tried reinstalling kdm with aptitude? Or purging it and then
installing it again? Purging might recreate the config files.
>
>> Try gdm instead, I use it without any problem.
>
> Maybe it's working for you because you're using gdm and not kdm.
>
> For the second time in this thread: Is there another way to start kde
> than using kdm (or gdm)? Though they can be nice to have, I don't want
> to have to use either of them.
Your system is messed up somehow. I do not have mysql installed yet
trying to install kdm goes without a hitch!
$> sudo aptitude install kdm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
kdm
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 1710kB of archives. After unpacking 3682kB will be used.
Fact: from the above, it is quite clear that kdm does *not* require
mysql. You have some other problem with kdm, it appears, and mysql is
not the culprit here.
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