On Fri, 03 May 2002 09:20:37 -0700, Salane King wrote:
Salane,
THANK-YOU!
It WORKED!!!! After 2 weeks of torture, I've now got a working KDE3
again!!!
How on earth did you figure this one out?
George
> > try rpm --erase -e fam
> >On Friday 03 May 2002 11:48 am, Luc Roseberry wrote:
> Le mer 01/05/2002 � 22:02, PlugHead a �crit :
> > 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.
>
> Same problem here. Blue desktop, no mouse menu. etc.
>
> > 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),
>
> Not working for me.
