First, thanks for putting kde4 in experimental. I hope it is available with Lenny in some way. It's not as stable as some desktops, but a great way to get it into shape would be to have it in the Lenny repos.
I got the desktop working again, it was not simple. 1. Letting aptitude handle the upgrade did not work. Same condition. It's important to note, I was attempting to use kdebase, not kdebase-dbg when this happened. Maybe that's a clue that I'm new to running experimental packages? 2. I "upgraded" by "aptitude remove" *everything* kde and deleting anything kde-related leftover last night. I also added unstable to sources.list. kdelibs5 (or something like that) wasn't being found in experimental. I then installed kde-minimal using aptitude *after* the kdebase-dbg installation. It seems the update that broke the desktop really messed up the state of KDE4. From my end-user perspective, at this time, there appears to be some differences between the kde4 packages and the -dbg KDE4 packages. There is probably a different bug report to submit, but it was late and I was working quickly.... Let me know if you have any other questions, otherwise you can close the bug. Michael --- On Mon, 7/21/08, David Palacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: David Palacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#491752: kde4: No Desktop > To: "miguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 3:06 PM > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 15:58, miguel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: kde4 > > Version: 2 > > Severity: grave > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > I've been following kde4-experimental for at least > a month now and have had no issues with upgrades until the > last one about a week ago. Desktop does not > > start. After logging in, I have a chequered > gray/white canvas for a desktop, but nothing else. > I've started a terminal by adding it to the autostart > folder, > > but that's all I get. No bar along the bottom, no > Desktop, no wallpaper, nothing... > > > > Only thing I've tried is deleting ~/.kde4 in an > attempt to start fresh, but no luck. > > > Try upgrading every KDE4 critical package, especially > kdebase-runtime & kdelibs5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]