Re: [SLE] Cannot start KDE after YOU update last night

On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:48, Currie Sylvanus wrote:

I vaguely remember this problem being discussed earlier this year ...

I ran YOU & apt-get upgrade successfully last night but since then I have not been able to start a KDE session.

Had this too, recently ... I found the fix in the list archives. See below! Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net -----Forwarded Message----- From: wolfi To: SuSE List (english) Subject: [SLE] KDM messed up after YOU update of NVidia packages - incl. solution Date: 15 Sep 2002 14:18:58 +0200 Hi guys'n'dolls, The last night I was running the YOU stuff once again on my SuSE 8.0 box, it decided to update the NVidia packages - which led to the following desaster: After the reboot KDM showed only two possible sessions, 'failsafe' and 'default' - the latter being failsafe as well. No KDE, no Gnome ... shit !!!! Well, I went back to runlevel 3, logged in and brought up KDE manually, this still worked: # init 3 # startx --kde Then I looked in the archives of this great list, and found the following: On Friday 23 August 2002 09:44, Frederik Vos wrote:

just copy /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave to /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Did this, and now, everything is back to normal. Hope this helps in case anyone else will be affected by this problem. Cheers ... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@gmx.net