A Dimecres 02 Abril 2003 17:55, R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar va escriure: Dear Chandra,
thank's for your long and complete mail. > I am sorry you have experienced the same problem that I did. Bad luck, it's the problem to try to install software. > 1. When I lost KDE, I apt-get installed the Debian packages for GNOME > and set it up as my default window manager in > /etc/X11/default-display-manager. > This restored X windows to my installation. Ok, to have something to work. At last I have another machine in the university, so I can have mail and net. > 2. I felt I had nothing to lose and so I added a line in my > /etc/apt/sources.list to include the unstable distribution as well. > This may be quite dangerous: it may be better to add the testing > distribution instead. My problem is that I cannot do this because at home I only have a modem conexion.... maybe I can create some cd. > APT::Default-Release "stable"; Ok > 4. I ran apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade. > 5. I encountered trouble with the perl package: I cannot remember > exactly which but there were conflicts because of dependencies of other > packages on version perl_5.6 when version 5.8 had been installed in the > upgrade. > 6. This required a little bit of hand fixing by removing the offending > packages and re-installing them if possible after my distribution did > not give error or warning messages when I ran apt-get -f install. Note > that some original packages could not be re-installed because of the > perl version change, but these packages were not very important to me. Well, this evening I will try to reinstall all kde, so I will see if I see some the problem. > > 7. One package I originally had from the unstable distribution was > mozilla-browser_1.2.1-9: it was upgraded to mozilla-browser_1.3-3. This > was the only unstable package I remember I had when kdm_3.1.1-0woody1 > would not run. [Ralf Nolden told me that one or more packages from > testing or unstable could be the cause.] At present > mozilla-browser_1.3-3 co-exists with KDE_3.1.1 on my system. Why a mozilla package can make problems to kde? whick libraries use in together? (system a part) > 8. It may also be that some libraies were upgraded and the problem > disappeared with that upgrade. I am sorry that I cannot identify the > offending libraries/packages with any precision. I will try. > 9. When the distribution had been upgraded and apt-get dist-upgrade gave > null results, I followed the instructions to apt-get install kdebase and > kdm. I then tested kdm, and when it worked, resumed with the > installation of the rest of KDE_3.1.1-0woody1. So, finally you did a new installation of kde, not an upgrade? > > 10. The worst case scenario would have been a total re-installation of > Debian woody. To prepare for this, I used > > dpkg -l | grep ii > <file_name.txt> > > to retain a record of installed packages in case of a total re-install; > thankfully, this did not occur. [You could re-install by hand or write > a perl script to semi-automate or fully automate the re-installation > using this file.] Maybe there is a better way to do this! > I didn't know it. Perfect. > I am sorry not be more specific, but I can definitely say that you can > recover and have a working KDE-3.1.1 as I have! > > Best of luck! Thank's a lot Chandra, I will inform about the news. Regards, Leo > > --Chandra > 02 Apr 03 > > Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > A Dissabte 29 Març 2003 14:05, Ralf Nolden va escriure: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a woody r0 with kde3.1.0 from ktown (I did an download and I > > construct a cd). On monday I did an update of my box from kde3.1.0 to > > kde3.1.1 > > > > After do the upgrade my kde crash every time I try to run any program of > > kde, kdm first. > > > > On tuesday I was looking on the list and I found that R (Chandra) had the > > same problems as I. First I downloaded the r1 upgrade cd and upgrade my > > bot to r1. > > > > After I did a apt-get dist-upgrade as Ralf said. Also I check, because I > > had some suspicious that maybe I did some mistake with the packages and I > > merge the qt _3.1.2-0woody10_, but it wasn't, so this isn't the problem. > > > > R (Chandra) said that he did a reinstall and all stand bad again. > > So, > > > > I have a kde 3.1.1 disaster in my home box and please I would need some > > help because I don't know what to do. > > > > Please, any idea? > > > > Regards, > > > > Leo
