Hi Basil, I'm no kde guru, but I have a few questions for you: 1. Do you get a desktop if you login using a different user (create a new one and try it if needed)? If so, then there are no probs with your kde rpms (this is the best case scenario). You can then try erasing all the kde temporary files in /tmp (and perhaps any that may be created in ~/.kde; like I said, not a kde guru), or messing around with .kde/* or .xinitrc. 2. If answer to (1) is still no, then it could be your kde install got hosed. Try verifying the kde rpms (this could take a few minutes). Try something like this script from a terminal (save it to a file an type sh <file you saved it to>; or just run tcsh and enter it line by line, except the first one - mind the back quotes on the rpm|grep command): #!/bin/tcsh foreach rpm (`rpm -qa | grep kde`) echo "**** $rpm ****" rpm -V $rpm end You can play around with the grep pattern if you think you're missing relevant packages (there may be easier ways to verify pack by pack than this script, I guess I'm no rpm guru either...). (2) might show you what rpms may have been broken by the earlier unsuccessful attempt to update. Then you can decide on how to fix them, perhaps. HTH (this is all I could think of). Good luck! Adalberto On Sunday 25 June 2006 01:14, Basil Chupin wrote:
I allowed this stupid zen/zmd/whatever-it-is-called to attempt an update of the system (10.1). It barfed after ~30 minutes of wasted download time with an error -- but now when I boot the OS I don't have the Desktop, just the default splash screen after I enter my password to login.
Doing a System Repair did nothing.
By inserting a CD/DVD I can bring up Konqueror (as it goes to read the contents of the DVD) and then I can access the system through Konqueror and use the apps (for example Thunderbird on which I am now posting this message). My Desktop is shown in Konqueror so I know that it still exists and it looks intact (at least as far as the apps I have on the Desktop but I don't know about the Taskbar entries).
But running the OS through accessing Konqueror by this devious means is not what anyone would wish.
The question is, does anyone know how I can get back my Desktop so that it shows-up normally after the login (Name/Password)? I don't want to re-install the whole sheebang (yet) again :-( . Everything is "here" -but how do I get it back?
Cheers.
-- "It is well known that among the blind, the one-eyed man is king".
Desiderius Erasmus