Partial success: Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:39:01PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:11:23PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I certainly *never* asked xdm to be held back, nor icewm, yet > when I started an interactive aptitude session just now, > they were on the list of held-back packages,

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:11:23PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:58:15PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. > > > I am running the i386 d

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 12:41:12PM +, Petri Varsa wrote: > I had the exact same problem ... except I use kdm. You must have a lot more > patience than myself. It only took me a few hours before I decided to just > back up all of my data and re-install everything. :-) This is actually the sec

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 11:58:15PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. > > I am running the i386 distribution. For historical > > reasons I will get around to sorting out o

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to > > sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For > > historical reasons I will get around to sorting out > > one of

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working -- SOLVED

2005-06-25 Thread mark27q1
On Saturday 25 June 2005 17:58, Mark Fletcher wrote: > --- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to > > > > sarge. > > > > > > > > > > >However on login, the X server appears to shut > > > down (and gdm promptly re-starts it

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Petri Varsa
> > Is it just KDE? Try a different wm/environment. for me, the problem existed with xdm, and kdm. I didn't try gdm. All other window managers worked fine. Just the kde enviroment would fail on startup. > > Is it just from gdm? What happens if you kill gdm > > and try "startx"? With startx, ot

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Petri Varsa
I had the exact same problem ... except I use kdm.  You must have a lot more patience than myself.  It only took me a few hours before I decided to just back up all of my data and re-install everything.  :-) With a fresh install, KDE works just fine. -petri On 6/25/05, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to > sarge. > > > > > > > >However on login, the X server appears to shut down > >(and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I log in and > >after some flashing of screens for a seco

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-24 Thread Kent West
Mark Fletcher wrote: >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. > > >However on login, the X server appears to shut down >(and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I log in and >after some flashing of screens for a second or two I >find myself back at the login screen again. > > Is

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hi > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. > I am running the i386 distribution. For historical > reasons I will get around to sorting out one of these > days, I run gdm then select a KDE session at login. > > My

Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For historical reasons I will get around to sorting out one of these days, I run gdm then select a KDE session at login. My X server has obviously survived the upgrade as gdm starts OK on boot and presen