On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 14:16:13 -0400 Robert Crawford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 > > > If you're not wanting to go to 3.1.2, you can use the updated KDE rpms from Mandrake Update to fix many of the KDE problems. Joeb
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