Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Jesper Holmberg
* On Thursday, August 31, Sarang Lakare wrote: No you don't have to [reboot].. as I had mentioned in a previous emial.. a simple "init 3" followed by "init 5" would have helped :).. I like the challange of doing everything (but kernel upgrade) w/o rebooting :)) Well, what would be the

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Sarang Lakare
I think it has to do with the output of the uptime command and bragging rights regarding the stability of the operating system. :) correct! and the fact that init 3 and init 5 take less than a minute compared to a hard reboot! -sarang Tony

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-31 Thread Anton Graham
Submitted 31-Aug-00 by Jesper Holmberg: Well, what would be the difference between running init 3/5 and a soft reboot? In my opinion, it's the same thing. Both ways, init is the first process to start. Not rereading bios settings is the only difference I can think of. Init is in effect a

[expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread peter aarestad :-)
Yikes! I installed all of the KDE 1.93 RPMs last night off of Cooker, and then my X login screen got completely goofed up - it's displayed in this retro font, and there's only one option in the window manager menu that looks like a list: "kde, gnome, sawfish, default" or something like that.

RE: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS
From what I have read on this issue, you need to also get the rpm for mandrake desk or something like that. -Original Message- From: peter aarestad :-) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] problems after installing

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
if you had searched on this list you would have found the problem!!.. you also need to installed mandrake_desk??? rpm... -sarang

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread peter aarestad :-)
Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: From what I have read on this issue, you need to also get the rpm for mandrake desk or something like that. Yah - I installed that one, too - in fact, the problem was there even after I installed it! I thought it was causing it, but after "downgrading" to

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread Peter M Aarestad
Sarang Lakare wrote: if you had searched on this list you would have found the problem!!.. you also need to installed mandrake_desk??? rpm... -sarang Unfortunately, I have installed the mandrake_desk rpm, but the problem persists (in fact, I had installed it to begin with!)... -peter --

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread Peter M Aarestad
"peter aarestad :-)" wrote: Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SWS wrote: From what I have read on this issue, you need to also get the rpm for mandrake desk or something like that. Yah - I installed that one, too - in fact, the problem was there even after I installed it! I thought it was

Re: [expert] problems after installing KDE 1.93

2000-08-30 Thread Sarang Lakare
Of course, I realized the _real_ solution: restart!!! Silly me - I assumed I never had to completely restart Linux to get software to work... oh well. Sorry to bother y'all. No you don't have to.. as I had mentioned in a previous emial.. a simple "init 3" followed by "init 5" would have