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Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 27 October 2010 06:52:10 Dale wrote: |
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>> I once had kdm to fail on me during a KDE upgrade. I think it was a |
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>> version mismatch of some kind because later on as it emerged more |
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>> packages, it worked fine. |
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> Whenever I have a wholesale upgrade of KDE to do, I restart with no X* |
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> (just the six VTs) and do the upgrade from there. Much safer. |
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> * I keep a no-X startup profile in grub.conf. It omits the extra things |
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> that KDE needs, like HAL and consolekit, and includes gpm. Occasionally |
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> handy, and well worth the effort of maintaining grub.conf. |
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It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho. Seamonkey seems to |
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need a GUI of some kind to work right. ;-) I usually start a upgrade |
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just before I take a nap. Now, if I need to I can use Fluxbox while KDE |
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upgrades. |
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I might also add, if I hadn't logged out of KDE while the upgrade was in |
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progress, it would have kept working since it was already loaded. I |
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think the problem was that kdelibs had upgraded but the other stuff was |
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still the previous version and they just didn't like each other. |
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I'm hoping to build me another rig pretty soon. Then I will have a back |
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up. May have to get me one of those keyboard/monitor switch thingys. |
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Are you also saying you reboot when you upgrade KDE? Why? This is |
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Linux. Rebooting after or before a GUI upgrade is not needed. At worst |
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a /etc/init.d/xdm restart would reload the GUI stuff. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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