S Glasoe wrote:
> On Tuesday May 22 2007 8:40:17 am Jim Flanagan wrote:
>
>> Well, I feel like in stuck in the movie Groundhog Day. I keep getting
>> back to where I was, but no better off. I tried Daryl's suggestion and
>> updated Mesa and Mesa-devel, not change. Then i uninstalled the patterns
>> KDE Desktop and KDE Base. Told all the dependencies to delete as well,
>> system then booted into terminal, no X. The re-installed KDE and Xorg.
>> Now I'm back to desktop, but all is exaclty where I had left it before.
>> All my programs are still here, tbird etc. and screensaver still won't
>> work. Glxinfo still retunrs the same error message. Perhaps I should try
>> uninstalling KDE again, but this time delete /etc/x11?? then reinstall??
>>
>> Jim F
>>
>
> Can't remember if you have moved or deleted your ~/.kde directory and deleted
> everything in /tmp related to this particular login ID and then rebooted.
> That would clear out any weird settings left over from whatever. By
> un/re-installing KDE you won't get a clean ~/.kde so any possible bad or
> wrong settings are retained.
>
> Did you create a new user ID and does it have the same problems?
>
I did not delete ~/.kde or /tmp before reinstalling KDE. Thats a good
idea. I think I'll delete /etc/X11 as well.
Existing other users and a new user experience the same problems.
This may or may not be related, but clicking on My Computer on the
desktop returns this error:
An error occurred while loading sysinfo:/:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_sysinfo'.
Jim F
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