From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PB8Bh-0007Ko-JU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:45:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB73E07FE; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC66CE07FE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:44:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90F88DEC02 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:44:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4p-y8kTVGH1W for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:44:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from humphrey.ukfsn.org (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F290DEC01 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:44:41 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:44:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4CC76457.7040804@gmail.com> <20101027032123.GA7415@root_A20> <4CC7BE0A.8080708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CC7BE0A.8080708@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010271644.40098.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 3e76bb89-5602-447c-9405-2c7cc3a43d8f X-Archives-Hash: ebb850d137f44d76c7adb478b172acd7 On Wednesday 27 October 2010 06:52:10 Dale wrote: > I once had kdm to fail on me during a KDE upgrade. I think it was a > version mismatch of some kind because later on as it emerged more > packages, it worked fine. Whenever I have a wholesale upgrade of KDE to do, I restart with no X* (just the six VTs) and do the upgrade from there. Much safer. * I keep a no-X startup profile in grub.conf. It omits the extra things that KDE needs, like HAL and consolekit, and includes gpm. Occasionally handy, and well worth the effort of maintaining grub.conf. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.