Man o man, I'm fucked.
I had originally installed Mandrake Oxygen as a full install to a
spare partition that I have for testing. It seemed to run fine (with
the few problems that I noted previously).
This encouraged me to go ahead with the jump to upgrade my Mandrake
6.1 installation. This is my main system.
Prior to the upgrade, I had a nicely tuned system. I was booting
into runlevel 5 and running KDE without problems.
The upgrade process seemed to go OK, a few minor glitches. I set
it to boot into runlevel 5 (as I had been doing previously). I had a
perfectly good XF86Config so I told the
Out of the install box, runlevel 5 didn't work. Turns out that it
was missing the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory so it couldn't write
the PID file. I made that directory and restarted. This time the
login screen came up. I logged in but no window manager started,
whether or not I selected either KDE or Gnome. I was left with just
a bare xterm.
So I restarted, this time into runlevel 3. X started fine and my
KDE desktop appeared. Phew!. But my fonts are all
wrong! None of my TrueType fonts work anymore. Nor can I change
desktop fonts using the KDE Control Centre. :-(
Now Netscape won't run. :-(((
[rob@localhost rob]$ netscape
/usr/bin/netscape: pidof: command not found
netscape-communicator: locale `C' not supported.
Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set
correctly?
Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
Warning: Cannot convert string "-microsoft-comic sans
ms-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-9" to type FontStruct
Warning: Color name "green" is not defined
Warning: Color name "red" is not defined
Warning: Cannot convert string "-microsoft-comic sans
ms-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-9" to type FontStruct
Warning: Cannot convert string "-microsoft-comic sans
ms-bold-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-0-iso8859-9" to type FontStruct
Warning: Color name "Gray60" is not defined
Warning: Color name "Black" is not defined
Warning: Color name "Blue" is not defined
Bus error
Ksirc, which ran fine in Mandrake 6.1, now segfaults. :-((((
Damn near nothing runs:
kcmkdesu: cannot connect to X server
kdmconfig: cannot connect to X server
kcmkfm: cannot connect to X server
kcmkfm: cannot connect to X server
kcmkpanel: cannot connect to X server
Virtually nothing on the panel works: the icons are there but
clicking on them does nothing.
On the desktop, the icons for Kppp and Kill are the "?" icons.
I am not a happy camper. Not at all.
