[wplug] unsuccessful KDE 2.1 upgrade on Mandrake 7.2

[T Quine]

I suggest you use whatever 'failsafe' option, possibly not use the graphical 
login tool.  That way you could start up X without running a window manager. 
  Just an xterm.  Then, try starting kde (with the command, startkde ( ?  
I'm not familiar with kde)).  Hopefully, you'll get errors logged to 
terminal you started it from.  That might help.

I you can only start kde from root, it makes me think it's a permission 
problem with the kde install.  How did you install it?  Packages?  From 
source?

-quining-

>From: root <dttessitor at home.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] unsuccessful KDE 2.1 upgrade on Mandrake 7.2
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:54:49 -0400
>
>I've repeatedly tried in vain to install KDE 2.1 on Mandrake 7.2, but
>the closest it comes to working is under root where it creates a nice
>clean background, a center KDE box with icons that blink at various
>stages until it gets to the one for the panel.  Then it produces an
>error statement:
>
>Could not find mime type application/octet-stream
>
>After a bit the cute little KDE box with the icons becomes a solid beige
>rectangle and the whole window locks up.  Ctrl-alt-bksp successfully
>brings back the log-in window (which is by KDE as opposed to the Gnome
>design that was used prior to trying to upgrade KDE).  I can
>successfully boot other window managers but not KDE.  Trying to use KDE
>as any other user results in a solid blue screen and nothing more (at
>least its Gnome blue and not the blue screen of death that MS uses, but
>the effect is pretty much the same).
>
>I gather from a Google search that the error statement is somewhat
>generic and could apply to a number of things.  I'd appreciate some
>pointers of where and what I should look at first.
>
>Thanks.
>David
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