Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box, ** How I did it **
Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared to crash, all icons on the desktop went & the bottom taskbar stopped working. Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no kcontrol but quite a few gnome icons and apps. Not having emerge sync, emerge -e world for some time I did an emerge sync, system runs 247 so its not a problem. I had previously written a bash script to run through all the packages on the system & re-emerge them skipping any packages that have problems emergeing. Its still got approx 250 to go kde edu etc ... Has worked great in the past. ** Whats happened ** Well what hasnt :( The kernel boots, all services start, X starts and the xorg logs look OK, etc-update showed no updates needed, weird since I have now emerged approx 230 packages KDM starts and presents me with a default login screen but it has no box, everything is 100% transparent to the background apart from the witting and logos. As I type to login I get no text but I can login to my default fluxbox. When I do, gkrellm shows an outline but is 100% transparent, right clicking for menus causes a menu title to come up but all options are invisible + the screen numbers overlay one gets overwritten by two etc etc and ends up as a confused mess. ** Help ** I am at a loss here, I could tell you more about the graphical problems but I do not know if this would be useful. The system is working but graphicly b0rked, any suggestions please :) Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
