I had this same problem when I tried to emerge gnome, I unmerged gnome and kde was fine again, I think, there might have been some residuals configs but for the most part I think that is all I had to do to get it running again. Check the forums. Mike
---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :( Date: Wednesday 06 July 2005 01:42 pm From: Dave S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Gentoo <[email protected]> Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box, ** How I did it ** Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared to crash, all icons on the desktop went & the bottom taskbar stopped working. Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no kcontrol but quite a few gnome icons and apps. Not having emerge sync, emerge -e world for some time I did an emerge sync, system runs 247 so its not a problem. I had previously written a bash script to run through all the packages on the system & re-emerge them skipping any packages that have problems emergeing. Its still got approx 250 to go kde edu etc ... Has worked great in the past. ** Whats happened ** Well what hasnt :( The kernel boots, all services start, X starts and the xorg logs look OK, etc-update showed no updates needed, weird since I have now emerged approx 230 packages KDM starts and presents me with a default login screen but it has no box, everything is 100% transparent to the background apart from the witting and logos. As I type to login I get no text but I can login to my default fluxbox. When I do, gkrellm shows an outline but is 100% transparent, right clicking for menus causes a menu title to come up but all options are invisible + the screen numbers overlay one gets overwritten by two etc etc and ends up as a confused mess. ** Help ** I am at a loss here, I could tell you more about the graphical problems but I do not know if this would be useful. The system is working but graphicly b0rked, any suggestions please :) Dave -- [email protected] mailing list ------------------------------------------------------- -- Michael W. Holdeman ________________________________________ Powered by Gentoo Linux www.gentoo.org | Kernel 2.6.11-ck8 | Win4Lin 5-1-20 netraverse.com | Win4LinPro 6.1.1-03 win4lin.com | ________________________________________| -- [email protected] mailing list
