On Monday 02 June 2003 11:47, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > I decided to post this here because it looks way beyond newbie stuff. > > I'm running 9.1 (download edition) on an AMD XP2100, Soyo Dragon Plus MB, > 512 megs of Corsair DDR ram. > > Installation went smooth with no errors that I know of. > > As root, I can open 2 windows, try to copy something (anything) between > them and both windows competely disappear. No warnings or error messages. > > With my normal user account, I can open an icon window (home for example) > and close it, always with a crash and a KDE error message:
> Anyone have any ideas? Makes it darned hard to use, ya know? > > Never had these problems with v9.0 or 8.2. Oh, I did a complete install and > not an upgrade. There are various weird problems with the stock kde 3.1 with 9.1. A lot of users have problems such as yours, and others too. I suggest reading the kde threads on pclinuxonline under the RPM announcements forum, then downloading ALL of Texstar's kde 3.1.2 packages from his ibiblio site to their own directory in /home, then log out of kde into gnome or Ice, and rename your /home/user/.kde folder to kdeold. Then go to init 3, su to root, and cd to the directory you downloaded to and install Tex's kde packages with (takes a few minutes). Be sure and get all the required packages and dependencies. Use this command to install in init 3. rpm -Uvh --force *.rpm --force replaces files and packages, but you must not be running kde at the time of install. Then you need to restart the box with the halt command- if you just go directly back to init 5 after the packages install, you might have trouble- I did. Kmail shows up with all your email, but you'll need to re-enter your info and accounts. In the kdeold folder you saved, there is a bookmark.xml file in /share/apps/konqueror- just replace the new one in the same location in /home/user/.kde, and your bookmarks are back. You might need to resetup the kppp info. Robert Crawford
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