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Blizzard Wolf

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Registered: 2004-08-04

Posts: 14

I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

And they broke KDE...in some sort of strange and bizarre way, KDE still works. Yet...I have no applications, I cannot open a single KDE specific application, such as the KMenu, or the Control Center.

I should've stayed with the original version, I basically bypassed the dependency warning, and then...I have no KMenu.

This might not help, but I also installed Epiphany and Wget, actually upgraded.

Just so you know, I can't even GET IN Menu Editor, and there isn't a single problem in the KMenu, might I reiterate.

Good news is, I can still use the terminal, which I have conviently located near the Window Pager.

Blizzard Wolf

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Registered: 2004-08-04

Posts: 14

Re: I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

I was looking at other topics, turns out some others have the same problem...

Note to Self: Ignore glib and xorg upgrades, as hell will break loose.

Well atleast GNOME still works.

Win

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Registered: 2004-03-04

Posts: 155

Re: I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

Hi Blizzard Wolf.

The simplest near-term solution is to replace xorg by xfree86 and wait for a reliable update of xorg.

Do the following:

1. Go to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F1, for example).
2. Log in as root.
3. Shut down X11 by typing: init 3
4. Replace xorg by xfree86: pacman -S xfree86
5. Create the configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (I like to use 'hwd' for this, which creates /etc/X11/XF86Config-4.hwd which you can copy or rename; you can install hwd using pacman).
6. Restart the X server: init 5
7. Log into KDE and perform any needed configuration clean up.

Regards,

Win

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

Posts: 2,975

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Re: I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

i don't know if there was anything posted here on the forum but i seem to recall some people talking about KDE - Xorg 6.8 incompatabilities. i don't know if the arch kde maintainer is aware of these bugs or not though.

xorg should have gone into testing firs thought imo

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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

The problem seem to be solved see:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6743
and
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=6759

Blizzard Wolf

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Registered: 2004-08-04

Posts: 14

Re: I think I made a boo boo, I updated xorg and some others...

I agree, they should be tested on an old Pentium 4 with 256 RAM and all that jive beforehand...Of course the cheapest of components work just fine...

Oh and thank you for the suggestion...but I see that, for some reason...GNOME always works when KDE doesn't, actually it always works. I'm going to have to make a couple of application shortcuts.