Bugzilla from kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > TNWestTex <mcforum <at> bellsouth.net> writes: > >> ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_ksmserver.so: >> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > This is your real error. The missing file is part of kdebase, please make > sure > you have kdebase installed (not just kdebase-libs). Also check if you have > the > other KDE components you want installed (again, not just the -libs part). > > I'll try explaining what probably happened, it's fairly technical though: > We > had some issues with splitting off -libs subpackages to avoid multilib > conflicts (conflicts between the .i386.rpm and .x86_64.rpm packages on > x86_64 > systems): to get rid of the i386 version of the main packages (which are > no > longer shipped, only -libs is multilibbed, i.e. available as both i386 and > x86_64), we added an Obsoletes tag to the -libs package. However, what > this > ended up with is that the main package got completely removed, even the > one for > the main architecture, which of course is not what we wanted. This problem > should be fixed in the current Fedora 8 updates though, so it should not > happen > again. > > Thanks Kevin. Kdebase was in /usr/lib/but not in /usr/lib64. Had to erase and install as the system wouldn't get back into phase. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/F8-update-kills-KDE-tp16763533p16807942.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
