Fwd: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(

["Michael W. Holdeman" <lists@ptfd.org>]

I had this same problem when I tried to emerge gnome, I unmerged gnome and kde 
was fine again, I think, there might have been some residuals configs but for 
the most part I think that is all I had to do to get it running again.
Check the forums.
Mike

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Subject: [gentoo-user] Help I have b0rked my system :(
Date: Wednesday 06 July 2005 01:42 pm
From: Dave S <gentoo@pusspaws.net>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>

Please help, I have managed to really screw up my second gentoo box,

** How I did it **

Well, I tried emergeing gnome, liked the look of it but then it appeared
to crash, all icons on the desktop went & the bottom taskbar stopped
working.

Going into KDE all the K menus appeared messed up ie no kcontrol but
quite a few gnome icons and apps.

Not having emerge sync, emerge -e world for some time I did an emerge
sync, system runs 247 so its not a problem.

I had previously written a bash script to run through all the packages
on the system & re-emerge them skipping any packages that have problems
emergeing. Its still got approx 250 to go kde edu etc ...

Has worked great in the past.

** Whats happened **

Well what hasnt :(

The kernel boots, all services start, X starts and the xorg logs look
OK, etc-update showed no updates needed, weird since I have now emerged
approx 230 packages

KDM starts and presents me with a default login screen but it has no
box, everything is 100% transparent to the background apart from the
witting and logos.

As I type to login I get no text but I can login to my default fluxbox.

When I do, gkrellm shows an outline but is 100% transparent, right
clicking for menus causes a menu title to come up but all options are
invisible + the screen numbers overlay one gets overwritten by two etc
etc and ends up as a confused mess.

** Help **

I am at a loss here, I could tell you more about the graphical problems
but I do not know if this would be useful. The system is working but
graphicly b0rked, any suggestions please :)

Dave












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