On Monday 30 December 2002 at 7:09 am, Karolina Lindqvist wrote: > I updated to latest debian "unstable" level, and my KDE does not work > anymore. These break-everything debian updates makes me kind of tired > sometimes.
Karolina, I used to feel that way ... probably before you made the KDE 3.x debs available for Unstable (Thanks very much again) but I have switched to running Unstable as my main system as it has been remarkably stable for the past year or so. Yes occasionally it will break (last one for me was the libfontconfig1_2.1-7 problem) but that is truly the nature of the beast. I have found , #Debian and #Debian-kde on irc to be excellent sources of fixes for any berserker behavior of Debian upgrades. > Anyway, I started the X server separately from KDE, and then it > works. But now I get the default X cursor instead of the arrow. It > appears that xsetroot does not accept the -solid #C0C0C0 option like > it used to. > > There are also other problems, since "startx" gets hung in "ksplash" > without updating the screen to anything. I can't help with those problems although ksplash hang usually is a missing kde component and that shouldn't happen with you should it? > I really don't know what is updated that breaks everything, and don't > feel I want to bother with it right now. I am running unstable and your KDE 3.01RC5 debs (from dresden) and I am running AOK. (This is the second time this week I've posted this.) I run apt-update probably 2-3 times a day. I also apt-get -f install usually when files are not automatically installed. I do so with out fear for two reasons: 1. If SID KDE 3.1 breaks, I have a configured working Afsterstep session 2. If SID Debian breaks, I have a backup partition running Woody which now is also running KDE 3.1 from Ralph (Thanks Ralph). Finally if both my Debian partitions break (both Woody and SID) I have OS/2, Win98, RedHat partitions to fall back on. > Other builds of KDE3 are out True enough - But once you have run a Keramiked 3.1 KDE, you don't want to go back. And your deb's are pretty much the only choice for us unstable users (with computers not fast enough to compile!)
