Using apt/synaptic, I decided to do an upgrade of all the things it suggested on my FC1 laptop (yea, I know - it was dumb!). The process proceeded with no issues but when I rebooted my machine, my menu panel in KDE disappeared from the lower part of my screen and I get errors right after boot up that it can't find my sound driver. Something else I noticed during boot up; the login screen was different. Before the box where I entered my user name and password was only a few inches across. Now it's much longer than before.

I can live without my sound for a while, but without my panel, I can't figure out how to run any apps. I was able to get this web browser working only because it was an icon on my desktop and those seem to be there. I also have a "start here" icon on the desktop which I was able to see the configuration for the panel but after playing with it I still can't get it to come back.

Thanks!
BS

As a stop-gap measure to get the panel back, you might try pressing Alt+F2 and typing . If that doesn't work, click the more options button, run it in a terminal and see what the error messages are.

The sound driver problem is likely to be caused by a change to your kernel configuration/build. You'll find some error messages by running in a terminal.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried "kicker" and got a crash message. It's titled, "KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handeler". Under the short description, it says, "The application KDE Panel (kicker) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)." This message is popping up when I first boot up too but I didn't notice it had to do with the panel 'til just now. Any thoughts?

BS

It looks like some of your KDE libraries haven't been upgraded properly.

Try and run konsole. If that fails, run xterm. If that fails, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and log in on a text console (Alt+F7 will get you back to the GUI).

Now run to find your kicker executable. Then run to find out if it's missing any library dependencies. You may need to upgrade some packages, or you might possibly have to uninstall some old libraries.

Below are the results of your suggestion. Not exactly sure what I'm looking at here but there doesn't seem to be anything standing out here. Can I just remove kicker and reinstall it?

BS


[wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$ whereis kicker
kicker: /usr/bin/kicker
[wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$ ldd /usr/bin/kicker
libkdeinit_kicker.so => /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kicker.so (0x4e33b000)
libkonq.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4 (0x4e2a4000)
libkparts.so.2 => /usr/lib/libkparts.so.2 (0x4e25c000)
libkickermain.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkickermain.so.1 (0x4e328000)
libkio.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 (0x4defb000)
libkdeui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4 (0x4dc24000)
libkdesu.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.4 (0x4e240000)
libkwalletclient.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1 (0x4e22e000)
libkdecore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 (0x4d95c000)
libDCOP.so.4 => /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 (0x4db8d000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x41177000)
libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x4a3e5000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x41531000)
libkdefx.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4 (0x4dbf6000)
libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x4d1f1000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4125c000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4117c000)
libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x412aa000)
libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x41291000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x4127f000)
libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x41402000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4126c000)
libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x42107000)
libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x41324000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x41153000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4131a000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x41018000)
libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0x4146f000)
libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0x4dbc4000)
libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x487c2000)
libfam.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfam.so.0 (0x41521000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x41000000)
libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x41435000)
libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x412b4000)
libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x4140c000)
libmng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 (0x4d8fc000)
libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x41449000)
libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x41469000)
libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x41536000)
libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x413e0000)
liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x447f6000)
[wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$

OK, I got it figured out. I was searching google when I found this page:
http://dot.kde.org/1070894366/1071568194/

Which mentioned trying the following:
"You can remove ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc and then start kicker from command line. It will run kde panel with default settings so you will need to customize it again."

I did this and like it worked. Like it was mentioned, I had to redo my panel, but that's much better then reloading the OS!

And as for the sound - it started working too. Not sure why but it started before I began monkeying with the panel so I'm pretty sure it wasn't that (but you never know!).

Thanks for the suggestions.
BS