Re: [gentoo-user] Blocks migrating from KDE 4.4.3 to 4.5.1

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>    
>> I do only have KDE on here.  The bad thing is, I use kdm for my login
>> manager.  Even that was broken.  I had no GUI and no way to login to
>> KDE or anything else.
>>      
> Log into a text console, and start KDE with 'XSESSION=KDE-4 startx'.
> Replace KDE-4 with anything from /etc/X11/Sessions/ for other window
> managers.
>
>
>    
>> Looking forward to seeing how your upgrade works out.
>>      
> Not so well, rdiff-backup of /usr crashed, not sure why. I'll try again,
> or create a new backup from scratch.
>
> 	Wonko
>
>    

That may have helped if kdm was the only thing broken.  I got part way 
through the upgrade then had packages that wouldn't build.  Portage gave 
up on skipping packages and just stopped building.  I couldn't get past 
that problem so I had to go back to the older KDE.  So, kdm was broke 
but so was KDE itself.  I needed something like Fluxbox that could run 
all by itself with nothing related to KDE.

Glad you got backups.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)