On 02/15/09 11:57, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Friday 13 February 2009 21:53:58 Michael Schuster wrote: >> question: is it possible that configuration and installation turds from >> previous attempts at running KDE can cause some of the grief I've been >> seeing (esp. on my laptop)? If so, I'd welcome input as to which files you >> believe I need to (re)move to clean the slate ... > > One might try removing the ~/.kde and/or ~/.kde4 directories -- AFTER BACKING > THEM UP because, you know, mail and contacts and stuff goes in there as well > -- to see if that helps; running kbuildsycoca4 might help, and possibly > throuwoing out /opt/kde-4.1/ entirely before reinstalling, because there > might > be crufty old libraries lying around.
I finally managed to verify this - on the same laptop where an ips installation over the remains of previous efforts had caused KDE to falter during log in, I made an effort to clean up all possible remains, and did a fresh install. I have now managed to log in and have a (so far) workable desktop. I did not remove/touch/change anything in my $HOME, btw, so potential previous localisation/customisation does not adversely affect this process. Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
