Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Lars Forseth <larsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 20:37, Lars Forseth wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have done something stupid, in frustration at trying to upgrade to KDE
> 3.1 i deleted my /opt/kde3 dir's. Why? Well, I tried the following: 1. 'rpm
> -Fvh --nodeps *.rpm' and then 'rpm -Uvh --nodeps *.rpm'. But I always ended
> up with warious dependencies prblems. So in a spat of delirious frustration
> I did this stupid thing. Now the result: when I start the PC  get the old
> (original 8.1) login screen. And I onle get the choice between an 'default'
> and 'failsafe' loggin. When I chose default I then get a blue background
> screen with a lone x-term window. I can then enter 'kde' here and kde3.1
> starts up!

Oups! forgot that after deleting /opt/kde3/* i Installed the rpm's (from SuSE 
for kde 3.1).

>
> How to rectify this situation? (If I try to start d.e windowmaker or
> another windowmanager I get an error and ends up back at the original 8.1
> login screen.
>
> regards
> larsf
>
>
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> Lars Forseth
> Nord-Trøndelag Fylkeskommune
> http://folk.uio.no/forseth
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Lars Forseth
Nord-Trøndelag Fylkeskommune
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