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Greenland

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Registered: 2008-02-28

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[SOLVED] Update messed things up

After a few months I decided to run pacman -Syu again, which was dumb, because everything was working fine. After downloading 700 mb of files and overcoming 10800 lines of "exists in filesystem"-errors with -Syuf, I was ready to cross my fingers and reboot. And as I expected, i discovered new nifty features shown here: http://jama.wippiespace.com/hups.jpg
The taskbar decided to move from bottom to top, and window frames disappeared. Also alt-tab doesn't work, or ctrl-alt-esc, the shortcut for killing applications. I guess kdemod got broken somehow? How should I fix it?

Last edited by Greenland (2008-07-29 17:36:16)

Pierre

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Re: [SOLVED] Update messed things up

You used the -f switch and now you wonder why your system is broken? (If I were in bad mood I would tell you to reinstall Arch and take the lesson)

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skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Update messed things up

kdemod (3.5.x) and kde from extra have some library conflicts. This was discussed both here and at the kdemod forums. If you want KDE 4.1, use the one from extra until kdemod gets their new repo structure finalized.

Last edited by skottish (2008-07-29 16:23:51)

Greenland

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Re: [SOLVED] Update messed things up

You used the -f switch and now you wonder why your system is broken? (If I were in bad mood I would tell you to reinstall Arch and take the lesson)

Yes, I spent half a day downloading the files, and then it whines over 10000 files already exist and doesn't do anything. I took the first working solution I found on the forums and hoped it doesn't break anything. Silly me.

skottish

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Re: [SOLVED] Update messed things up

You used the -f switch and now you wonder why your system is broken? (If I were in bad mood I would tell you to reinstall Arch and take the lesson)

Yes, I spent half a day downloading the files, and then it whines over 10000 files already exist and doesn't do anything. I took the first working solution I found on the forums and hoped it doesn't break anything. Silly me.

Arch works best if it's kept up to date and this was a big upgrade for you.

Usually when you see the 'exists in filesystem' message, it's best to take a look at what the package is before you force upgrade it. Sometimes it's safe to do, and sometimes it's not. It really depends on how critical the package is. One possible thing that you can do is to drop out of X, completely remove KDE and it's components, and reinstall it. I do know that kdemod is going to do a 3.5.x 'legacy' package if you don't want 4.1.

Greenland

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Registered: 2008-02-28

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Re: [SOLVED] Update messed things up

pacman -S kdemod did the trick, thanks for all the help.