Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 14:47 +1100, Chris Smart wrote: I was assuming that the partition was being formatted each time Fedora was re-installed, but if he uses a separate partition for /home, then that could well be it. Unless you manually partition, and manually add options to do a file system

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread david walcroft
On 01/04/2010 11:50 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: david walcroft wrote: Hi, I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should. Did you enable compositing/desktop-effects ? If so, disable by editing

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread david walcroft
On 01/04/2010 01:47 PM, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/4 Mail Listsli...@sapience.com: Â Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live cd and run fsck on the partition. Complete stab in the dark :-) Doing a fsck is a good

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread david walcroft
On 01/04/2010 12:45 PM, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/4 david walcroftd_j_...@bigpond.net.au: No I don't think it's a dying disk or bad media as kde runs on a fresh install,my trouble starts upon a reboot. Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps it's file system

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-05 Thread david walcroft
On 01/04/2010 02:37 PM, Mail Lists wrote: On 01/03/2010 10:47 PM, Chris Smart wrote: could well be it. My understanding is that he does fresh installs and KDE works correctly the first time, but then dies after the first reboot. That I've seen that - for me was usually a graphics driver

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 david walcroft d_j_...@bigpond.net.au: Hi, I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should. Dying hard drive? Bad installation media? -c -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread david walcroft
On 01/04/2010 09:37 AM, Chris Smart wrote: 2010/1/4 david walcroftd_j_...@bigpond.net.au: Hi, I've reposted as I need to try and get a response as it's a ridiculous situation reinstalling because I cannot get kde to work as it should. Dying hard drive? Bad installation media? -c No I don't

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 david walcroft d_j_...@bigpond.net.au: No I don't think it's a dying disk or bad media as kde runs on a fresh install,my trouble starts upon a reboot. Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps it's file system corruption. Have you tried ext3? -c --

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Mail Lists
On 01/03/2010 09:45 PM, Chris Smart wrote: Using ext4? If your file system's not syncing before poweroff, perhaps it's file system corruption. Have you tried ext3? -c Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Chris Smart
2010/1/4 Mail Lists li...@sapience.com:  Before changing back to ext3 and reinstalling - which looks like a shot in the dark to me - you may want to a boot live cd and run fsck on the partition. Complete stab in the dark :-) Doing a fsck is a good idea - I was assuming that the partition was

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Mail Lists
On 01/03/2010 10:47 PM, Chris Smart wrote: could well be it. My understanding is that he does fresh installs and KDE works correctly the first time, but then dies after the first reboot. That I've seen that - for me was usually a graphics driver problem - installer works great (in vesa

Re: Kde problems

2010-01-03 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Sunday 03 January 2010 21:22:32 david walcroft wrote: I'm using fc12-86_64,my problem is when ever I logout/login or shut-down/reboot I lose kde,it will not start,only a blue screen. and no desktop.Sometimes I get the error 'cannot access /usr/bin/autorun: no such file or directory' so I cp