[kde-linux] what to do after upgrade?

[Dale]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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
>
>   

ctrl alt backspace does the same thing.  It restarts the GUI and reloads
the config files as if it were starting from a fresh start.  It's a lot
easier than typing in all the other stuff.

Dale

:-)  :-)  :-)