[kde-linux] Issues between KDE 3.5.2 and xorg7

[Paulo J. Matos]

On 08/04/06, Peter Humphrey <prh at gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 01:07, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
>
> > Before upgrading to xorg7 I'd like to know if there are any known
> > issues between xorg7 and KDE 3.5.2. Has anyone had any compatibility
> > problem ?
>
> Yes, I did have a problem. I already had xorg v7 installed when the upgrade
> of KDE from 3.5.1 to 3.5.2 came in. It wrecked my system. At first it
> looked as though reinstalling libexpat would fix the problem, but several
> revdep-rebuilds later, each involving several hundred remerges, I was no
> further forward.
>
> In the end I decided to make a clean start; installing both those packages
> from scratch enabled the system to build itself properly and I haven't had
> any more problem with it. Well, until base-layout was upgraded this
> morning, wrecking networking, but that's another story.
>
> It's possible that upgrading X after KDE would work ok, but the other way
> around certainly didn't for me.
>
Thanks for your comments!

Yes, this way it worked fine for me. No problems at all! :)

> --
> Rgds
> Peter.
>
> PS. I expect Duncan would say that I ought to have packages lying around for
> a quick recovery, but I haven't tried that approach yet.
>


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