[11.0] Trouble with /usr/local and KDE3.5

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Hi all,

I just installed 11.0 today. The company I work for maintains its own /usr/local, so after the install I rename the directory to local.local and symlink a remote directory as /usr/local.

This worked fine with 10.3, but with 11.0 for whatever reason it causes KDE to freak out. By freak out, I mean icons disappear, the launch menu is blank, and it hard-locks soon after boot.

This is my work PC, and I can’t get any work done. Unless I have a solution, I’m going to have to go back to 10.3.

Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Nathan

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Are you using KDE4?

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As the title indicates, I’m using 3.5. I tried 4 as well and it had some broken behavior too, but I’m not at all familiar with 4 and so I didn’t know if it’s just unstable in general or if it was dying on the /usr/local thing as well.

Nathan

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Well I wouldn’t use KDE4 at my workplace for at least another year.

I missed the 3.5 in the title, so my idea is not relevant.

Here’s hoping someone else chimes in

Good luck

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Maybe, beagle is the culprit! Try remove all stuff concerning beagle using yast->software manager. I’ve installed my copy of SuSE 11 using the live-CD and beagle hasn’t been installed so far. Beagle is infamous to be very slow and processor-hungry so the processor can’t do anything much when beagle is working.

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Nope, I didn’t install beagle when I installed KDE.

I’m going to see if I can hack it up by installing a previous version of KDE on OpenSUSE 11, but if I can’t manage that then it’s back to 10.3 for me.

Nathan