Re: [gentoo-user] help

[Roger Miliker]

On Thursday 06 October 2005 04:46, Wes Gray wrote:
> My 3-year old gentoo system has decided to be a big headache.  My
> troubles started when I upgraded to kde 3.4.  The kde taskbar apps
> wouldn't start.  I tried unmerging kde-base and emerging kdebase-meta
> to see if it was related to the kde split, but that didn't help.  I got
> the idea that the problem was some old kde packages, so I tried unmerging
> everything on my system which was kde related, including some old packages
> which are no longer in portage, then I reemerged everything.  THis was
> a big mistake as afterwards kde was even more broken, and kde apps like
> k3b now don't even work.  I've given up on kde and moved to enlightenment,
> but it will be really hard to deal without any kde apps.  Lots of people
> have given me advice, but everything I try just seems to make things worse.
>  It seems like there is something about old versions of kde that won't go
> away, which I don't understand at all.  It seems like if you reemerge
> something it should move to the newest versions.  I really could use some
> help because I have no idea what to do next.
>
> -Wes
One thing you could try (while not running kde) is:
mv ~/.kde ~/myold.kde
Kde will regenerate ,kde on next start and if that works fine you can merge 
back the configs from the old ~/myold.kde

Hope this helps

Roger

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