Re: Un install kills Suse 9.0?
"Thor Burfine" <[email protected]>
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will work on it this evening >From: Mark Gordon <[email protected]> >To: Thor Burfine <[email protected]> >CC: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Users] Un install kills Suse 9.0? >Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:22:52 -0400 > >On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:31 +0000, Thor Burfine wrote: > > Yep it killed it. > > > > I have lost the desktop, KDE is not on the machine. > >Please provide evidence that KDE is not on the machine. "rpm -qa | grep >kde | wc -l" might be meaningful. Similarly, "rpm -qa | grep kde | >xargs rpm -V" complaining of missing files would be meaningful. "It >doesn't work" doesn't equate with "it's not on the machine". See below >for my instructions on getting KDE to work. > >/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager > > > After booting all I get is a prompt. > > looks like a burn down and reload. > >Either you didn't modify /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager, or you removed >more packages than were necessary, even when the software notified you >that it would do so. My guess is that you ignored my advice to >edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. > > > If I can make a sugestion. > >If I can make a suggestion: > >Read and follow the instructions I provided. If they don't work, >provide details. Something short of a reinstall can perhaps be >accomplished. > > > Also, > > I had followed the instructions on getting evolution to be the default > > email program yet > > when I click a link nothing happened. > >Click a link in what, Konqueror? That's a KDE issue. Nothing we can do >about it. > >-Mark Gordon > > > >From: Mark Gordon <[email protected]> > > >To: Thor Burfine <[email protected]> > > >CC: [email protected] > > >Subject: Re: [Users] Un install kills Suse 9.0? > > >Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 14:15:53 -0400 > > > > > >On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 17:35 +0000, Thor Burfine wrote: > > > > Best I can figure, When installing XD2 it removes KDE (thus > > killing a > > > > large number of apps) un installing xd2 removes all desktop > > managers. > > > > > > > > My question is - How to get back in or do I just use Knoppix > > recover > > > > my data and reload Suse? > > > > > >We update some low-level libraries that are very widely used > > (libxml, > > >libxml2, libxslt, glib). Reverting to the SUSE versions of those > > >libraries would probably make the rest of the process more > > tractable. > > >If you're mostly interested in just switching back to KDE/kdm, > > >edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager to have it use kdm. You'd need to > > do > > >that in any event. > > > > > >-Mark Gordon > > ><< signature.asc >> > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Express yourself with the new version of MSN Messenger! Download today > > - it's FREE! _______________________________________________ Users > > maillist - [email protected] > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/users ><< signature.asc >> ---------- FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar get it now! _______________________________________________ Users maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/users