[kde-linux] what to do after upgrade?

[James Richard Tyrer]

Andrew Walbran wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 August 2006 7:06 am, Jerome Yuzyk wrote:
>> This might be a real dopey question but lately I've been running at
>> initlevel 5 and never had to consider this before:
>>
>> After I do a yum update of KDE, like I just did to get from 3.5.3 to 3.5.4,
>> should I
>>
>>   1. reboot
>>   2. log out and back in again
>>   3. just keep going
>>   4. something else
> Number 2 should be sufficient. If you don't log out, it may still work but you 
> will still be running the old version of whatever programs are running, and 
> they may be missing some files.

Number 1 is not necessary unless you update a daemon.

Number 2 is not quite sufficient.  I suggest that you log out and then 
when the KDM login screen comes up, go to a console, log in as root and 
kill KDM:

	killall kdm

Then restart kdm:

	kdm

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JRT