Hi there!
It's done! I'm at ~x86 now. The upgrade went quite smooth - had to resolve
some blockers, and mask the new x.org 1.7 because it does not work at all
with ati-drivers.
**BUT:** After rebooting, I ran into a very nasty KDE4 bug. All
authentication dialogs did not work. So I had no KDE wallet, no kmail, no
kopete, no webmail... now this was annoying! Must be some strange side
effect, I do not think anything of KDE itself had been updated.
I spent quite some time trying to solve this. Without an existing ~/.kde4
directory, it worked, but all of my .kde4 backups (I have lots, I make one
whenever I save the session, because this does not work sometimes) had the
problem. So I searched for the file in ~/.kde4 that was responsible for
it, and finally I found .kde4/share/config/kdeglobals. And, more
prrecisely, this setting:
[Passwords]
EchoMode=ThreeStars
I commented this out, and all is working again. Yes, I will file a bug
report upstream.
This kind of bug is what made me not switch to KDE for a long time. The
possibility of suddenly having a little problem which makes the whole KDE
thing unusable until solved.
Wonko
