On Monday 23 February 2009 23:01:12 Arthur Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote: > > Arthur Pemberton wrote: First off I'm not assuming any degree of knowledge with what I'm about to write. I'm just trying to be as clear as I can. There are 3 things that I've run into in the past that might cause this problem and consquently 3 things that you can try. The third one is the most complex and potentially could cause the most damage so please make sure you understand it before proceeding. Actually it could very well be a combination of THING 2 and THING 3. ---------------------------------------------- THING 1 ---------------------------------------------- This could be a problem with /etc/X11/xorg.conf It could be that the kmod driver rewrote the file. There maybe be a backup of the original you will need to check and restore the original. If you think that this is the case, don't forget to backup the file you will be replacing. Just in case its actually OK. ---------------------------------------------- THING 2 ---------------------------------------------- Log into a console. cd /tmp make sure that there aren't any files there that you are using directly rm -Rf * Restart your computer (You might have to do this twice. ---------------------------------------------- THING 3 ---------------------------------------------- I don't know if this still an issue, but in the past I ran into a problem when I installed kdelibs kdebase or qt while still in runlevel 5 (from within an XWindows Session namely KDE) So another thing thing that you could try is (and I know this would be a pain in the butt) but open up a console and run the following from within a console. rpm -qa | grep kdebase rpm -qa | grep kdelibs rpm -qa | grep qt- NOTE 1: ------- If you are able to ssh to the computer from a remote computer then you of course can use the tools available from the XWindows session you are logging in from. NOTE 2: ------- If you decide to try this, the qt files you are after and there aren't many of them will all start with qt- not qt3 or qt4 or something-qt etc. rpm -e --nodeps "the list of all the kdebase packages" "all the kdelibs packages" "all the qt 4 packages not the qt3 packages" if you copy paste these into a text file you can line your ducks in a row and the line that you creat should look something like: rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches qt qt-devel qt-x11 qt-mysql etc... Edit /etc/inittab and change the line that reads id:5:initdefault: to read id:3:initdefault: Login to a console as root on the offending computer and switch to runlevel 3 by issueing the command init 3 and run cat "the name of your text file" Then Select the line with your mouse. Right click once Hit Enter. rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches qt qt-devel qt-x11 qt-mysql etc... Restart the computer after the packages have been uninstalled. Assuming you are running yum you can then reinstall the packages by the following actions cat "the name of your text file" Select the line with your mouse. Right click once. Press on the [Home] key. Modify the line from rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches "the list of packages you just uninstalled" To yum install "the list of packages you just uninstalled" enter reboot restore inittab from runlevel 3 to 5. reboot. I hope this helps Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090224/8a9be993/attachment.html
