Swapped to KDE and now things are broken

I was running Gnome, but was not happy with the interface (again) and installed/swapped over to KDE. I now have the following issues with my system:

  1. YAST/Software Installer won’t work. I put in my password and then nothing shows up. I can run it from command line, but this is a pain when I try to install rpms from the web. It will no longer install things from rpm through YAST.

  2. All sound quit in my web browsers. I get the following information from crash handler:
    System configuration startup check disabled.

e?1034h(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb685e9e0 (LWP 3426)]
[New Thread 0xabd3cb90 (LWP 3490)]
[New Thread 0xb1571b90 (LWP 3487)]
[New Thread 0xb3538b90 (LWP 3432)]
[New Thread 0xb3febb90 (LWP 3431)]
[New Thread 0xb47ecb90 (LWP 3430)]
[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb7f9ac83 in g_slice_alloc () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#7 0xb7f9bb42 in g_slist_prepend () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#8 0xb59dc4a4 in g_object_constructor () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#9 0xb59dcb66 in g_object_newv () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#10 0xb59dd752 in g_object_new_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#11 0xb59dd89e in g_object_new () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
#12 0xb59b9d12 in gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data ()
from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#13 0xb59b7d65 in gdk_pixbuf_new () from /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
#14 0xb5eb9d20 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#15 0xb5eba1b7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#16 0xb5e82e72 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#17 0xb5e6b27c in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#18 0xb5e98cb0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#19 0xb5e99960 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#20 0xb5e99cbe in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#21 0xb61b41e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#22 0xb61b361a in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#23 0xb61b3997 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#24 0xb61b4d1d in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#25 0xb61b39e4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#26 0xb61b4d1d in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#27 0xb61b39e4 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#28 0xb61b4d1d in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#29 0xb611b43b in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#30 0xb611f01a in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#31 0xb6242b42 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#32 0xb6247118 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#33 0xb62472f5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#34 0xb5de382d in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#35 0xb625278a in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#36 0xb5ec066b in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#37 0xb5de32ee in ?? () from /usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashplayer.so
#38 0xb7f7ca06 in g_timeout_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#39 0xb7f7c2d9 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#40 0xb7f7f85b in g_main_context_iterate () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#41 0xb7f7f9d8 in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#42 0x0805876d in GlibEvents::process ()
#43 0x080587ba in GlibEvents::qt_invoke ()
#44 0xb717579a in QObject::activate_signal ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#45 0xb7177cdb in QObject::activate_signal ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#46 0xb74dadb9 in QTimer::timeout () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#47 0xb7199f7c in QTimer::event () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#48 0xb71103cd in QApplication::internalNotify ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#49 0xb7111406 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#50 0xb7800892 in KApplication::notify () from /opt/kde3/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#51 0xb7105b1b in QEventLoop::activateTimers ()
from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#52 0x08058be4 in QXtEventLoop::processEvents ()
#53 0xb7128d10 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#54 0xb7128ba6 in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#55 0xb7110a5f in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/qt3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#56 0x0805de3b in main ()

Please help…

Thanks

So is this OS11.1?

And are you kde4 or kde3?

Did you install from a live cd or a dvd?

try this from a su terminal

rpmdb --rebuilddb

zypper refresh

zypper up

openSUSE 11.0

KDE 4 as well as KDE 3.5.9 (release 49.1) both act the same.

I installed from a DVD.

Gnome works with no problems but sound in websites. I will swap back out drives and see if your suggestion works and then update the post.

Thank you for your help.