Taking recent hints (and much urging here and elsewhere over the past few months), I thought to upgrade KDE4 from v4.4.4 to 4.5. The instructions for doing so are certainly simple enough and they fairly radiate confidence. The result (detailed below) is that my system is now useless, and I have to plead for help in getting out of the pickle in which I find myself. After executing the simple commands (omitting the optional repo), the first hints of what was going to happen were a few cases in which the installer claimed that it couldn't find expected files. In the absence of better information, I answered "Ignore" for these. After that, there were a remarkably LARGE number of cases in which the installer said that the current RPM seemed to be corrupted, and did I want to continue. I answered Yes in each case, and then Retry. In each case, the RPM turned out not to be corrupted after all, and it was loaded. There were tens of such incidents; I have never encountered even one such in the three years I have been updating RPMs. When the smoke cleared away, I found a desktop which was sluggish in the same sense that a moving glacier is sluggish. From time to time, an error message would appear, as follows: There was a notice reporting that Akonadi was not running, followed later by one saying that Nepomuk was not running. Each of these refered me to userbase. kde.org, and gave no further information. There was one that contained two sentences of the form: "Migration of <pop3 account> to Akonadi failed to create resource: Agent instance creation timed out", where <pop3 account> is the name of one of the Incoming Accounts in the Kmail settings. Since Akonadi didn't load, this would not seem to be surprising. The most recent error message is the following apologetic one: "We are sorry Plasma Desktop Shell closed unexpectedly. Details: Executable:kdeinit4 PID 2678 Signal Segmentation fault (11)". Actually, I do not see that anything is missing from the Desktop that should be there. But since I have never figured out what "Plasma" is supposed to mean in KDE, or what the Plasma Desktop (Shell) means in relation to the Plain Old Desktop, I don't know what this warining is meant to tell me. For quite a long time after the system came up, the mouse cursor was movable on the screen, and the mouse buttons would produce results ten minutes or so after I clicked. Right now, however, the cursor is frozen, dead. When it was still alive (several hours ago), I clicked on the shut down icon in the hope that the system to shut down, but that has not happened, and I will use the hardware reset button. If someone can point the way to inprove this dreadful situation, I will be eternally grateful. And I will never again try to install anything from the Factory. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org