I'm sure you must have a lot of pointers on this but thought i'll too add my
two pence. So here goes : My guess is that you are running in runlevel 5 by
default, i.e. X starts automatically and xdm or kdm does the login.
1. Press ctrl+alt+1 to switch to the virtual terminal 1 and give the
command telinit 3 to switch to normal console mode terminal. this will shut
down X. then give the commands to update kde
2. press ctrl+alt+backspace. this will kill X forcefully and then give
the commands to upgrade kde. not sure wether this will work. the above
should work.
>
> In a terminal window, I changed login to root using su, then installed
kde2
> with the command rpm -Uvh * -- nodeps as indicated in PCQuest magazine Feb
> issue; I then added the line startkde in my .xinitrc file (in my home
> directory). I am running Mandrake 7.1
>
> I rebooted the machine and I am still the proud user of KDE 1.2!
>
> What did I do wrong?
>
> Also, how can I get out of X and run in consi=ole mode?
>
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