On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:46, Wes Gray wrote: > My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache. My > troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4. The kde taskbar apps > wouldn't start. I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta > to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help. I got > the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging > everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages > which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything. THis was > a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like > k3b now don't even work. I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment, > but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps. Lots of people > have given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse. > It seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go > away, which I don't understand at all. It seems like if you reemerge > something it should move to the newest versions. I really could use some > help because I have no idea what to do next. > > -Wes One thing you could try (while not running kde) is: mv ~/.kde ~/myold.kde Kde will regenerate ,kde on next start and if that works fine you can merge back the configs from the old ~/myold.kde
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