Hi .. It seems for some strange reason the Hard disk may be full well the / partition at least si the install may not have completed now have to think about this one see if i can resize the / partition i have space on /home need to shrink that and extend / good fun .. not . Pete . --- On Sat, 28/1/12, G. Schlisio <g.schlisio@xxxxxx> wrote: From: G. Schlisio <g.schlisio@xxxxxx> Subject: Re: Another Major glitch now To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 16:39 Am 28.01.2012 17:35, schrieb P NIKOLIC: > Well it seems no help then it seems parts are working parts are not so how do i set about uninstalling KDE 4.8 and reverting to the previous working version or is 4.8 the new viersion now if so it has problems > > Pete . > > > --- On Sat, 28/1/12, P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: P NIKOLIC<p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [arch-general] Another Major glitch now > To: arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, 28 January, 2012, 15:43 > > I have just updated the system now on kde4.8 but all i get is kmix and a white screen noting else works at all even that took 12 mins to come up > (ps the update was a normal pacman -Suy ) > > > Pete (sent from webamil on the lappy cus main machine is futzed ) can you drop to a shell? if so, get some internet connection and retrieve the old packages from http://arm.konnichi.com/2012/01/26/ you'll find the kde packages in extra. you can just install them with a bit bash-hacking (awk, sed, wget, etc). if you want hints, just ask.