Since my Linux CD Burner has been toast I have been upgrading things manually to see what happens ( I like to do things this way )
From Mdk8.2 - Upgrading to 9.0 Beta2 Athlon 1Ghz, Voodoo3 Everything is fine EXCEPT when I go to upgrade KDE3 using the RPMs available from the 9.0B2 iso images that I have mounted loopback. Upon rebooting or attempting to startx there is a nearly unbreakable loop of flashing blank GUI and sometimes eventually ( cannot start kdeinit ) If, however, I use the following set of RPMs from KDE.org, then KDE3 comes up and runs fine. But it has some odd personalization wizard on startup that Mdk has evidently opted away from. What step(s) and or rpm's am I missing from Beta 2 that would make an upgrade or -ivh --nodeps --force of X and KDE3 not work where the following does work ? This is a subtlety I would like to understand more clearly... THX -AEF These work for manual upgrade with rpm, or urpmi after urpmi.addmedia. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- arts3-1.0.3-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeaddons3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeartwork3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-3.0.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-devel-3.0.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdebase3-nsplugins-3.0.2-2mdk.i586.rpm kdeedu3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegames3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdegraphics3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs3-3.0.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdelibs3-devel-3.0.2-3mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia3-aktion-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdemultimedia3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdenetwork3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdepim3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdesdk3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdetoys3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils3-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdeutils3-devel-3.0.2-1mdk.i586.rpm kdevelop3-2.1.2-1mdk.i586.rpm libarts3-1.0.3-1mdk.i586.rpm libarts3-devel-1.0.3-1mdk.i586.rpm libqt3-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm libqt3-devel-3.0.4-1mdk.i586.rpm
