Trying to log into the console of my two SL5.0 machines this afternoon, I had the unwelcome surprise of having both of them tell me that my KDE session "lasted less than 10 seconds" with no obvious errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file:
/usr/bin/startkde: Success Checking my root email, I find that there seems to have been an error updating KDE, although yum thinks it updated just fine. I'll paste the email below. When I go to check /usr/bin/startkde, I find: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /usr/bin/startkde -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jun 14 04:55 /usr/bin/startkde So no wonder KDE won't start. Has anyone else found this error? And, of course, how do I re-install this package without losing users' desktops (i.e. without uninstalling first)? There doesn't seem to be a way to try a "yum -force install" Much thanks, -Dave >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jun 14 04:55:21 2007 Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:55:20 -0500 From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: YUM:zim.bio.aps.anl.gov:2007-06-14 -------------------- YUM - security -------------------- ========================= ========================= ========================= == Package Arch Version Repository Si ze ========================= ========================= ========================= == Updating: kdebase i386 6:3.5.4-13.6.el5 sl-security 28 M kdebase-devel i386 6:3.5.4-13.6.el5 sl-security 1 18 k Transaction Summary ========================= ========================= ========================= == Install 0 Package(s) Update 2 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 28 M warning: kdebase-3.5.4-13.6.el5: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a 7048f8d sed: -e expression #1, char 33: unknown option to `s' Updated: kdebase.i386 6:3.5.4-13.6.el5 kdebase-devel.i386 6:3.5.4-13.6.el 5
