Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox and using kdm

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.
>
>    

It's sort of hard to check my email with no GUI tho.  Seamonkey seems to 
need a GUI of some kind to work right.  ;-)  I usually start a upgrade 
just before I take a nap.  Now, if I need to I can use Fluxbox while KDE 
upgrades.

I might also add, if I hadn't logged out of KDE while the upgrade was in 
progress, it would have kept working since it was already loaded.  I 
think the problem was that kdelibs had upgraded but the other stuff was 
still the previous version and they just didn't like each other.

I'm hoping to build me another rig pretty soon.  Then I will have a back 
up.  May have to get me one of those keyboard/monitor switch thingys.

Are you also saying you reboot when you upgrade KDE?  Why?  This is 
Linux.  Rebooting after or before a GUI upgrade is not needed.  At worst 
a /etc/init.d/xdm restart would reload the GUI stuff.

Dale

:-)  :-)