Re: [opensuse] Weirdness after KDE update (OS12.1 + +KDE 4.8)

Am 29.02.2012 09:06, schrieb Roger Oberholtzer:
I did an update to my 12.1 system a few days ago (Saturday, Feb 25 to be
precise), and the results is that KDE is no longer happy.

The system runs openSUSE 12.1 and uses the KDE 4.8 repos (not factory,
the 4.8 repos). I have been using these for a while and been doing
regular updates, and all has been working great. I have not changed my
repos in a while.

The problem originally manifested itself as:

When logging in and starting a KDE session, I would get a small white
Xterm that said ksmdeamon exited. So, kde cannot start. I would then be
returned to the login screen. Rebooting and all did nothing.

Since I could log in via, say ICE, I did so. I then started ksmdaemon in
a terminal, and it started. I then ran kwin, and magically I was
transported from ICE to KDE. Perhaps not a fully functional one, as I
has started only a few things by hand. But progress.

I then tried logging in to KDE again. It worked. Why this is the case
is a mystery, Perhaps just getting something to run once after the
update was enough to allow things to sort of run again. But, it is very
incomplete in terms of functionality. For example:

- NetworkManager is brain dead. All my existing connection definitions
are, apparently, lost. More problematic is that the tabs for, say, wired
connections, is disabled. I do have such devices. 'ip addr' for example,
correctly lists eth0. I can configure it via ifup, but to NetworkManager
it is dead. Even though the wireless tab is accessible, I cannot add
anything in it. All those buttons are disabled. Wireless does work via
ifup.

- Desktop effects do not happen. I don't really care. But if they are
not working as expected, something has gone wrong. They are enabled. I
use the proprietary nvidia driver, and it is still loading.


I am sure there are other things. But the network issue is a game
stopper.

I tried starting with a fresh $HOME/.kde4 directory, but that only lost
all the expected customizations I have. It did not result in the
aforementioned problems being cleared up.

I am not sure where to start. Perhaps there is a repo that KDE 4.8 now
needs that I have not enabled? I have checked that all packages in the
KDE 4.8 repo are installed and nothing has been missed. That does not
seem to be the case. But maybe I am missing something that is not in the
KDE 4.8 repos.

Since I seem to be the only one with this problem, I am guessing it is
not a general problem. Still, I cannot see what should be so different
in my use case. I have used the 4.8 repos since they were made
available, and have pretty much regularly been updating against them. So
it should all be incremental changes from the same source.

Any suggestions?
For time to time additional components are added to the KDE:Release:48
repo, where
the version of openSUSE 12.1 was used before. So it may be neccessary to
use a distribution
update. I usually use 'zypper dup --from KDE:Release:48', where
'KDE:Release:48' is the repo
name I use. This may be different from yours.

Herbert
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