The latest KDE3 rpms (under contrib) seem to have an issue. Last night, I did "rpm -Fvh kde*" from my local contrib mirror (rsync from proxad.net--currently kde*3-3.0-18mdk.) After doing so, I did a re-boot and tried to log in. What I got was a pretty blue screen, with a mouse pointer and not much else.
I tried several things, including update-menus (which gave some strange error messages like "ServiceTypes=" and "MimeType=" ... "not found".) Nothing seemed to work, except that logging in as root worked fine. Once it ocurred to me, the fix was fairly simple. mv .kde/.kde3 to a new location and run "kde3" (startkde3 did not work), which recreated the .kde/.kde3 dirs (afterwards, by copying the config and app sub-directories, I was able to recover most of my settings.) If "rpm -F" works the way I think it should (i.e. like "rpm -U", but only for installed packages), then perhaps someone should look into this... (Unfortunately I'm not sure which packages got updated, but I am sure that kdebase3 was one of them.) -Jason ========================= WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY *ME*, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. (The Truth)
