[SOLVED] HELP!!! Broken System-Lost on How to Fix! The particulars in the post.

[MoonRise]

Well, there were updates after getting back from vacation. Thought I might as well. Everything went fine. Rebooted to test out what may have been fixed in 4.1 Beta (my mistaking thinking that). After logging in all I get is my Splash Back ground with Konsole smack in the middle of the screen with no Window Decos. Nothing Else! I can run individual programs from konsole (how I'm writing this luckily). How can I figure out from Konsole what is not working? If I run Plasma it reports that it doesn't know what it is. Is that it? What do I need to so I Konsole to try and reinstall it if it is.

[Fintan]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

Is that n HH remix>kde4.1 beta?

Can you get into recovery mode?

If so try deleting / renaming ~.kde4

Could it be your video card?

Edit: can you disable compiz?

[MoonRise]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

Yep HH 8.04 Remix KDE4.1 Beta.

Actually since I get a Konsole right on Logging in, I guess I can try the KDE4 removal from there. I'll report back.

Not the video card, I don't think. Was working until the updates and reboot.

Don't use Compiz by default. I am, however, using KDM instead of KDM-KDE4. I wonder if they are forcing the use of that now with KDE4.1?

Anyway, I'll report back after remove .KDE4.

[MoonRise]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

Nope. No go. Clean .KDE4 directory and still I get is a Window Decoratorless Konsole. Odd enough, native apps will report not install. Konsole, FireFx and Thunderbird will start properly. I can start the others, but only if I go to where they are installed. Seems to be a pathing issue yet again like root, except this time it is the user that is being affected.

> > > >

I really was getting to like KDE4.1, but, and I know this is Beta, it shouldn't break that severely. A few things yes, but not everything.

[Fintan]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

I am, however, using KDM instead of KDM-KDE4. I wonder if they are forcing the use of that now with KDE4.1?

Just for the hell of it:

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

login from the cli and see what happens.


Hmmmm......
I had kdm-kde4 installed before upgrading now it is:
kdm-kde4 4.0.3-0ubuntu2

so maybe you van remove kdm and install kdm-kde4?

[MoonRise]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

No go. Oh well. I guess it's rebuild time! Luckily I have a separate Home partition and my virtual drives are on a separate partition as well

[dibl]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

Here kdm-kde4 won't run -- so my KDE 4.1 Beta is running on kdm. I think I might have a similar problem to Moon's -- I think that might be why some items don't work right (Dolphin and Konqueror crash when I do certain things with them). When they release KDE 4.1 next month, I might just reinstall too. Most of my stuff runs just fine (VMware, OOO, FF3, Amarok), so I can wait until they work the bugs out, and then install it again.

[toad]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

I'm running kde3 off kdm4 - no probs.

Hope I got you confused now

[dibl]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

I'm running kde3 off kdm4

That's an odd combination -- how did you arrive it?

[toad]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

I installed kde4 and it asked me whether I want kdm3 or kdm4 - so I chose kdm4 for the hell of it. The background might not be as pretty (plain blue screen) but it does its job without complaint

[dibl]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

When you installed KDE4, did you just select it with Adept Manager, or did you follow this?

http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-4.1beta1.php

?

[toad]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

The latter...

[dibl]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

OK, thanks.

Hmmm, I did what you did, then chose KDE4 for my "session", and never paid much attention to what was running underneath, until last weekend. I was surprised to find that it is is kdm (the 3.5.x version), and also that kdm-kde4 crashes when I try to run it from the console. I haven't had time to investigate the crash log -- it doesn't put up a useful error message when it crashes, but there might be something in the X log. It could be related to the Nvidia proprietary driver -- it tries to run, flashes some noise on the screen, and then dies.

Thanks.

[toad]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

Odd, 'cos whenever you install/mess with a login manager (see what happens when you do a dpkg-reconfigure kdm) it should ask you which version it should run?!?

@ MoonRise

Perhaps you want keep a backup of ~.kde4 until kde4 is sufficiently stable. Having said that, your experience is odd - did you really delete/move ~.kde4?

[dibl]

Re: HELP!!! Broken System - Lost on How to Fix!!! The particulars in the post.

see what happens when you do a dpkg-reconfigure kdm

Yep, good idea -- I'm gonna give that a shot tonight. Thanks!