KDE 4.1.3 on 11.0 desktop problem.

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I use KDE 4.1.3 (from the Factory repo) with openSuSE 11.0 and it worked really well (on NVIDIA) until recently. After one of the updates my desktop just crashes - I can still run applications (only via Alt+F2) but everything else on the desktop is unusable. I wonder if I messed up with configuration or did one of the recent updates introduces a bug.

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What I’ve seen with these updates is that an occasional package is not updated. Look at the kde4 packages for version numbers and see if anything looks wrong. For example, I had runtime of 4.1.72 installed instead of 4.1.2. I can only assume that the updater didn’t want to reduce the version number for that particular package.

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Yes, I assumed this might have been the case so I made sure that the KDE Factory repo has higher priority than the update one. However, far as I can see the packages are all to the same version… I wonder which particular packages could be the culprit.

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Hi, add this repo and update: Index of /repositories/KDE:/Qt/openSUSE_11.0

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Hi,

it is not necessary anymore to add the qt repository because the qt packages are now part of the kde4 factory repository, at least for opensuse 11. But make sure that they get updated as well :slight_smile:

hope this helps

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I didn’t know that, thanks :slight_smile:

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Thanks but this was the first thing I have done before bothering people on the forum. (anyway some previous updates from KDE4 Factory repo required updated QT from there).

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Presumably the QT packages from the QT repo and the QT packages from KDE4 Factory are the same, right? I have obviously updated all packages I have from KDE4 Factory. I will give it another go though. Thanks.

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Yes, they are an “aggregate” from KDE:Qt, so they are exactly the same.

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I did a full update of the KDE4 Factory repo yesterday (again!) but it did not help at all. The problem is still exactly the same. I wonder if there is any way to debug it. BTW. Running KDE4 Safe Mode session does not help.

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Hi,

did you try to rename your ~/.kde4 folder? Maybe this helps. I also use kde4 with nvidia and kwin but didn’t had any issues with the last updates. Maybe you can get some informations from ~/.xsession-errors.

hope this helps