On 04/21/15 20:38, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2015-04-21 at 20:08 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 04/21/15 19:57, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> I've installed the Beta 3 version of F22 KDE Live in a VirtualBox VM. >>> This was a clean install, i.e. get a fresh VM, boot the Live CD image, >>> then install to disk by clicking on the button. My host machine is F21 >>> has plenty of horsepower and an NVidia graphics card under the >>> proprietary driver. I also installed the VBox Guest Additions and ran >>> "dnf update" in the guest. >> A bit confused on the series of events... >> >> 1. Booted Live media. >> 2. Installed to disk using default file system layout(?) >> 3. Booted the installed system > 3a. Ran dnf install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc > 3b. Ran the VBox Guest Additions script (which requires kernel headers > and gcc). > 3c. Rebooted and noted the problems already mentioned. > >> 4. Ran "dnf update" > ... >> 6. Rebooted > 6a Problems still present. > > What I can't remember at the moment is whether I had to run stage 3a > from single-user mode due to a non-functioning desktop. I did have to so > this at stage 4. > >> And then.....the unusable DE as noted below? >>> After logging in, the resulting Plasma DE is unusable. Panel menus pop >>> up but windows don't appear on the desktop; in fact nothing appears >>> there except the root background. >>> >>> Other Fedora installations (F21 Workstation) work correctly in the same >>> setup. >>> >> So far, I've only done a "netinstall" of KDE B3. And, there is also the choice of running the non-debug kernel. I run that since it is faster. > I might try that. My only purpose in all this is to try and pin down the > problem with Plasma not preserving window layout and settings across > sessions, which I've mentioned in another thread. That problem doesn't > go away when I just try a different user, so my idea was to install > Plasma from scratch rather than as an update to KDE 4. > I see.... Well, I've only done a netinstall and I'm having no issues with responsiveness. Running in a VBox VM. I may try a Live install tomorrow if I have the chance. FWIW, the not preserving window layout problem exists in a scratch install. Need to check/hunt to see if there is a BZ files so I can add myself to the CC. -- If you can't laugh at yourself, others will gladly oblige. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
