Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

[BandiPat <penguin0601@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 September 2006 05:18, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:29:21PM -0400, BandiPat wrote:
> > Well,
> >
> > That was fun!  Anyone else managed to create havoc with their KDE
> > by updating to the latest KDE files?  Seems the kdeinit would not
> > start, thus preventing KDE from loading fully.  The build that
> > broke  things is kdebase3-3.5.4-39.1, which became available today.
> >  From what I could tell from the logs, it was trying to
> > run /opt/kde/bin/start_kdeinit, which is no longer there! 
> > Something didn't get changed in the /opt/kde/bin/startkde file or
> > something was left out or named wrong.  I'll let the SUSE guys
> > explain which.
> >
> > Anyway, the quick fix for the problem was to create a link:
> > ln -s /opt/kde/bin/kdeinit /opt/kde/bin/start_kdeinit
> >
> > I suppose also one could edit the startkde file to change the
> > start_kdeinit line to just kdeinit.  Decided on the link for now as
> > I'm sure a fix will be quickly arriving.
> >
> > Hope that helps some other poor unsuspecting sap that gets eager to
> > update their kde files!  ;-)
>
> It works fine for me.
>
> Are you using the BuildService KDE packages additionaly?
>
> Ciao, Marcus
===========
Nope, Marcus, nothing but what is in the 10.1 directories.  No other odd 
things or experimental stuff.  Should someone drop a note to bugzilla 
about this?  I haven't yet, just did the link quick fix for the moment.  
It seems since several here are experiencing the same problem, you're 
the odd man out.  ;-)

What did you do to keep your KDE sane?

regards,
Lee