On Wednesday 17 January 2001 05:37 pm, Mark Belanger wrote:
> Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > I have just uploaded RPM's for KDE 2.1 CVS as of 2001-01-15. These
> Has anyone had kdm troubles with these packages?
> Since installing them (on 2 different machines), I have
> some oddities.
> 1. Restart Xserver causes X to crash and kdm to exit
not that bad, but kdm is fairly screwed. many system services are
shown as users. only option on the 'shutdown' button is re-start the
Xserver. <Ctrl-Alt-F2> gets me to a level 3 prompt. Then I can login
as root and reboot/halt, or go to root's desktop (which I rarely need
to do). Kcontrol in root is useless, as user only the System | Login
manager is useless. NBFD, I keep user up 24/7 anyhow, an' I only use
KDE.
> 2. The session menu contains only default, kde, and failsafe.
> Selecting kde puts you into icewm. Default does launch kde
I only have 'default' (kde) and gnome choices. altho all the WM's
are installed, and use to be available to switch to.
> To install the pkgs, I downloaded all files and ran rpm -Uvh *.rpm
> and ran update-menus.
many, many times + 'rpm --rebuilddb' many times ;) I fixed kdm,
and all the problems I cited above, by uninstalling kdebase-20010115
and putting kdebase-20010109 back in. Problem with that was, I soon
missed how much improved memory usage (256 ram) and quickness was with
20010115. So I put the newer kdebase-20010115 rpm back in, even tho it
screws kdm, et al. No show stoppers, and hardly affects the way I'm
use to runnin anyhow.
I've gone as far as to try rebuilding the src.rpm equivalents of
arts, kdelibs-sound, and kdebase and tryin those. No better, MOF,
kdebase-20010115-src fails to compile. Same spot, well into it, after
2 attempts. What gets me is I've done all of Chris' updates (lot's!)
and this is the first time i've had any problems to speak of. So I
reckon it's a user/hardware/config on my part that screwed the pooch
this time.
So, I'm ready for some new updates ;>> Chris? ya lis'nin?
--
Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
