I'm running Mandrake 7.2, and have just tried upgrading XFree to 4.0.3 and
KDE to 2.1.1. The packages I used for the upgrade come from APCmags
Advanced Linux Pocketbook (any Australians or New Zealanders on the list may
have seen this about). I don't doubt the legitimacy of the packages -
APCmag tend to be quite good, especially with their Pocketbook series.
With the exception of some dependency problems (libfreetype.so.6 and
libmng.so), which were quickly sorted out using rpmfind.net, the upgrade
(rpm -Uvh etc) seemed to go quite smoothly. I was able to log into KDE
2.1.1 quite nicely and played around with the Control Centre, konqueror etc.
All running smoothly - "well done" - I thought. But no sooner had I patted
myself on the back when some problems arose.
While konqueror will display pdf and Postscript fine by embedding
kghostview, when I tried viewing files using kghostscript by itself (rather
than embedded in konq) it would not fire up. I tried launching kghostview
inside a terminal and the programme stated that the X server refused the
connection, before seg faulting. I did a telinit 3, and did a startx - I
still experienced the problem, and could see from the console that X was
indeed refusing connections.
On trying other programmes it appears that a large number of Qt (e.g.
qtcups) and KDE apps, but not all, are being refused access to the X-server.
This occurs whether I run the apps as a user or as root. Interestingly, if
I su in a terminal the applications can be launched. Non-qt and kde apps
don't seem to be affected (netscape works fine, gv etc).
Can anyone out there give me some tips on where to start looking for the
cause of the problem?
TIA
Aaron
