Re: Fwd: HELP! Uninstalled CUPS and can't boot into KDE
Well, I found that cups wasn't working properly and decided to remove it and put lprng in it's place. (a little knowledge can be REALLY dangerous). I launched Synaptic .24 then I selected all the cups packages (I believe there were 4 or 5 and they all started with CUPS...) and then clicked proceed. I got a window that popped up and I clicked continue. (Yes, I know, I should have checked what was going to be removed). Once everything was removed, I installed Lprng. I closed Synaptic and noticed that about 90% of my icons related to programs had turned to a generic icon. I then tried to launch Evolution, Netscape, Mozilla, Kedit, and I clicked on the KDE menu button but kept getting a window that popped up asking what program this should relate to. Panicking, I rebooted the machine. LILO started as normal, I selected SuSE, and processes seemed to start normally. I was expecting to get the login where I could select what WM to use like KDE or Gnome, but was instantly transfered to WFVM. Last night I I started yast (not 2 but yast, I'm running 8.0...or at least the terminal version of yast) and removed lprng and installed cups. I then rebooted. No luck. I then ran the command xhost + (thanks to the person that recommended that) and was finally able to get into YAST2. I couldn't find any dependency problems and wasn't able to figure out how to get KDE back. (BTW, last night I installed cups from the 8.0 CD. Before the "incident" I upgraded cups with Synaptic). Thinking Synaptic might find the problem, I ran it and updated the cups packages. I then rebooted. No luck. Still getting FVWM (or whatever it is). At this point I'm really stuck! I'm at work now and will try anything any one recommends, but I will have to do it later tonight (California time) when I get home...or maybe at lunch. Thanks, Tom On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 05:31, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > Now, what did I do at home??? And how can I fix it?? I won't tell you I'm going to fix it from here. But I can give you some starting point. What's really happening there? -- Gustavo Niemeyer [ 2AAC 7928 0FBF 0299 5EB5 60E2 2253 B29A 6664 3A0C ] -- Tom Nielsen Neuro Logic Systems 805.389.5435 x18 www.neuro-logic.com
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 03:32 am, Tom Nielsen wrote:
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No luck. Still getting FVWM (or whatever it is).
At this point I'm really stuck! I'm at work now and will try anything any one recommends, but I will have to do it later tonight (California time) when I get home...or maybe at lunch.
Thanks, Tom
Hi Tom, Could you try the following command to start kde from a terminal window. xinit /opt/kde3/bin/startkde -- :0 That should start kde, then have a look at the Control Centre -- System --login manager At least the above should get kde working. Also have a look to see if your WINDOWMANAGER env variable is set. graham@merlin:~> set | grep WINDOW WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde if not try exporting it; e.g. export WINDOWMANAGER=/usr/X11R6/bin/kde and then try running startx Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
Op woensdag 6 november 2002 17:32, schreef Tom Nielsen:
No luck. Still getting FVWM (or whatever it is).
At this point I'm really stuck! I'm at work now and will try anything any one recommends, but I will have to do it later tonight (California time) when I get home...or maybe at lunch.
Which kde and qt packages are installed? - rpm -qa | grep -E "^kde|^qt" -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On 11/07/2002 12:32 AM, Tom Nielsen wrote:
Last night I I started yast (not 2 but yast, I'm running 8.0...or at least the terminal version of yast) and removed lprng and installed cups. I then rebooted. No luck. I then ran the command xhost + (thanks to the person that recommended that) and was finally able to get into YAST2. I couldn't find any dependency problems and wasn't able to figure out how to get KDE back. (BTW, last night I installed cups from the 8.0 CD. Before the "incident" I upgraded cups with Synaptic). Thinking Synaptic might find the problem, I ran it and updated the cups packages. I then rebooted.
No luck. Still getting FVWM (or whatever it is).
At this point I'm really stuck! I'm at work now and will try anything any one recommends, but I will have to do it later tonight (California time) when I get home...or maybe at lunch.
I could imagine what happened, with strict dependency checking. What would happen if you did the inverse, i.e. apt-get -i cups, from a terminal? I would assume it would have the same dependency checking and maybe save you the trouble of this depends on that, which depends on the other, etc. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace God, I am what I am.
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I could imagine what happened, with strict dependency checking. What would happen if you did the inverse, i.e. apt-get -i cups, from a terminal? I would assume it would have the same dependency checking and maybe save you the trouble of this depends on that, which depends on the other, etc.
It will not be enough. Many packages depend on CUPS (for example KDE), but CUPS does not depend on them (fortunately CUPS does not require KDE!!) The proper way to do what you suggest is to go "at the other end of the chain": install something that depends on many other things. All the dependencies will be worked out. A good try would be with some KDE packages, like kdebase3, kdelibs3 or kdegraphics3. - -- Thibaut Cousin E-mail : cousin@in2p3.fr Web : http://clrwww.in2p3.fr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9yhvEv1vqsTa1E4oRAmxKAKCK6Y/4VP8C7VU8Ov7AMOtB348p1ACeOa5K sr28yprMVKypmYxW6L+yYaE= =7tnx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Hi Joe, Op donderdag 7 november 2002 02:05, schreef Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM):
I could imagine what happened, with strict dependency checking. What would happen if you did the inverse, i.e. apt-get -i cups, from a terminal? I would assume it would have the same dependency checking and maybe save you the trouble of this depends on that, which depends on the other, etc.
No it won't work does way. Imagine this whole thing as a Russian troll (many trolls in eachother (matrouska)), where cups is the most inner troll. All the trolls around the inner troll (cups) need the inner troll. But i is not the other way around. The inner troll does not need the outer trolls. What you want to accomplish, could be done by installing e.g. a kde package like kdegames. This one probably needs kdelibs, kdebase, qt, and cups(?) -- Richard Bos Fresh rpms for SuSE: http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/freshrpms.html Without a home the journey is endless
Anders told me to reinstall KDE to fix the problem. So I did. It now works, I can boot into KDE and everything is as normal....98% at least. Rather than installing KDE from the 8.0 CDs I have, I used Synaptic to install. The installation went fine. I'm running into a couple other issues, but I'll see what happens tonight. Tom
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