[kde-linux] what to do after upgrade?

[Dale]

James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

It has always worked for me.  When I do a upgrade and the compile has
finished, I logout, do a reset, then log back in again.  It has never
caused me any trouble at all.  Your mileage may vary though.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)