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smcsw2000

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Registered: 2007-06-22

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kde gone (solved)

Programs were running slow and jerky. So I tried to see if there was a problem in any of the error logs and found nothing. So I restarted the computer and when the startup got to daemons there was a long pause and when it finally resumed, I got the window for X and not kde. I tried pacman -Q for kde and I get error package kde not found. First why would it go away and second should I install kde 4 or stick with kde 3.9 since I am not that good at fixing some of the problems I have been working on for 3 months yet?

Last edited by smcsw2000 (2008-08-24 17:25:56)

skottish

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Re: kde gone (solved)

Try pacman -Qg kde

smcsw2000

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Re: kde gone (solved)

I tried pacman -Qg kde and get the following
kde kdearts
kde gwenview
kde kde-common
kde kdeaccessibility
kde kdeaddons
kde kdeadmin
kde kdeartwork
kde kdebase
kde kdebindings
kde kdeedu
kde kdegames
kde kdegraphics
kde kdelibs
kde kdemultimedia
kde kdenetwork
kde kdepim
kde kdesdk
kde kdetoys
kde kdeutils
so looking at this it seems the files are there yet not working? or is some config changed or erased? when I try exec startkde there is a long list of invalid entrys most at the home directory /Desktop/firefox/desktop and the next long list of warnings is that kbuildsycoca has undefined mimetypes
and the last entrys are
konqueror: WARNING: Unknown class in session saved data
X Error: Badwindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 19
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1200006
Could firefox be messing the whole thing up? I did a pacman -Syu a couple weeks ago after I had to force a pacman kde and everything was ok but when I went to firefox I would get two hourglasses in the main panel and one would go away after the internet came up to home page.

skottish

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Re: kde gone (solved)

so looking at this it seems the files are there yet not working?

Yes. KDE is a group and not a single package.

/Desktop/firefox/desktop

This is a strange setup. Normally the Desktop folder lists icons for mounted devices. Delete the firefox part and try again.

Last edited by skottish (2008-08-24 15:19:45)

smcsw2000

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Re: kde gone (solved)

removed file Desktop\firefox.desktop and rebooted. Kde came back with no problems. Did the firefox.desktop get corrupted? And when I try to find out which program I have I pacman -Q (package) and it gives me the latest version number. But when I did that to kde/kdm I got that the package was not found. Should I have done a pacman -V?

skottish

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Re: kde gone (solved)

I'm glad things are running again.

The desktop files are usually stored in two places. Either in ~/.local/share/applications for the ones that you modified, and in /usr/share/applications for the global ones. KDE should be putting modified ones in the former. What were you trying to do?

tigrmesh

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Re: kde gone (solved)

And when I try to find out which program I have I pacman -Q (package) and it gives me the latest version number. But when I did that to kde/kdm I got that the package was not found. Should I have done a pacman -V?

kde is not a package, it's a group.  Try pacman -Q for a specific package, like kdebase.

smcsw2000

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Re: kde gone (solved)

I was trying to get kde back. It just died and I was trying to figure out why because this was the third time it died. the first I was so new I couldn't do anything because somehow the two hdd got switched in fstab and I did not know it so I had to reinstall ARCH. the next time it died I reinstalled KDE and I had to force installation because qt3 existed. And this time scren displays were getting jerky and freezing for a few seconds and the scren saver would not come on.