kde upgrade failing miserably, help

[bootdoc]

after upgrading to kde 3.5.4 I can not login to my account. Have to use fail safe. something about could not write to /tmp- xserver may exit with error.
error setting up interprocess communications for KDE.

could not read network connection list /home/charlie/.Dcopserver_legend_0
Please check that dcopserver program is running

everything was fine this a.m. (upgraded yesterday).

firefox won't start unless i do sudo firefox.

whats up??
How do I down grade to kde 3.5.3
Charlie

[gnomefreak]

Re: kde upgrade failing miserably, help

To downgrade if you are using dapper that you need to add the kde 3.5.3 repo to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and # out or delete the kde 3.5.4 repo save than you will want to remove libqt3-mt and install kubuntu-desktop. there are other ways but that is the most thorough.

[bootdoc]

Re: kde upgrade failing miserably, help

Thanks for help. I now have a partial desktop. Now having trouble updating which i think was the original problem. one of the repositories won't connect.
Failed to fetch http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/so...er/Release.gpg Could not connect to mirror.cc.columbia.edu:80 (128.59.59.71), connection timed out
Reading package lists... Done
W: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.
Had this same thing happen before when I upgraded to kde3.5.4.
Is there a problem with this repo??
Charlie

[Gezzer]

Re: kde upgrade failing miserably, help

try this repro for the upgrade please ...

deb http://kubuntu.org/packages/kde-latest/ dapper main

[bootdoc]

Re: kde upgrade failing miserably, help

well, I finally got a working desktop back but missing start menu and other things on the task bar. After getting start menu back , it is missing several options like [logout] and [run] to name a couple.

I think I found out what the problem was. everything went screwy when i changed the KDM theme via system settings. I did it again and was unable to login normally. after much trouble shooting I just reinstalled. I don't think kde3.5.4 is ready for 64 arch. I'll stay with 3.5.3 for a while.

Charlie