[kde-linux] what to do after upgrade?

[James Richard Tyrer]

Dale wrote:
> 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.

Not exactly.

> 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.

Probably sufficient in most cases.  However, IIUC this restarts X but
does not restart KDM.

-- 
JRT