Adept-manager only starts from console, and kded crashes

[Quaxo76]

I just installed 8.04. I created a fresh root partition but kept my /home to keep configs and data. I heard that's supposed to work fine. I installed the KDE3.5 version.
I have several issues, some smaller, some bigger:

1) Adept manager won't start from the menu. I get the "application start feedback" on the taskbar, but no window opens, and nothing happens. If I run adept_manager from the console, it works. I checked the menu entry link, and it's correct. How could I fix that?
2) Several times, when opening the "storage media" folder, kded crashes. So when I try to open the media folder again, it says "kded is not running". I have to run it again from the console, then it works until next crash. But I have to keep that console window open.
It also sometimes crashes when I insert a removable USB HD (kded goes to 100% CPU and stays there until I kill it).

There are other issues that I want to experiment with before reporting them, but these are quite annoying. Might they be occurring because I kept my /home? Should I have made a totally clean install, loosing all my configurations? Or are they issues with 8.04 itself?

Thanks
Cristian

[vorgas]

Re: Adept-manager only starts from console, and kded crashes

If you did an upgrade then there are probably going to be issues like this that crop up. Unfortunately, there has not been a lot of work done on upgrade migrations.

You can probably fix the adept manager link by running kmenuedit (launch -> run). You may want to explicitly name the path to the adept manager (/usr/bin/adept_manager).

Don't know about the kded problem.

Finally, if all the issues are kde based, you might want to try removing the .kde directory (and if it's a symlink, the directory it points to). Yes, you will lose your kde settings but it might be worth it if you are having a host of problems.

[Quaxo76]

Re: Adept-manager only starts from console, and kded crashes

I already checked the link, and it is already correct... That's what's weirdest. I mean, if I type /usr/bin/adept_manager on the console it works, but the /usr/bin/adept_manager link on the menu does not. And I don't even get any errors - just nothing.

I also experienced new problems tonight, and I'm starting to feel ready to resign. I'm writing this from 7.10 right now, maybe 8.04 wasn't ready to go final...
Anyway, I did not do an upgrade. It was a fresh install, it's just the /home folder that I kept from 7.04.
I might try creating a small, empty /home partition and reinstalling everything, without migrating anything. It will take much longer to reconfigure everything and to move data in the new places, but in the end this might save time and headaches...

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed though. A clean install preserving /home is supposed to be "the" way to move on to the next version, and it's supposed to "just work". Well, it doesn't.

Cristian

[kevanf1]

Re: Adept-manager only starts from console, and kded crashes

Got to agree. This problem with adept is a show stopper I've had the notification for upgrades in my system tray but that doesn't work either. So just how are we going to be able to resolve this? Ok, I'm going to enable a root log in (for those who start saying no you mustn't I say phooee. su is just as dangerous because a cracker only needs to find out your personal password which you use more often than root anyway) and do the update.

This is pretty bad though for newcomers...