Changed mind about Upgrading KDE but now my system is off

zwyrbla · 07-15-2005, 01:29 PM

Alright I have slack 10.1 and I wanted to upgrade kde from 3.3 to 3.4 i found that i really didnt like 3.4 as much as 3.3 (mostly issues wiht the kicker setup) but nonethess i uninstalled the packages and reinstalled the original 3.3 packages. but now when i try to do something like change the time or anything that requires su privelages but still goes through kde i get an error message along the lines of

Command 'kcmshell clock --embed 39848134 --lang en_US' not found.

or

Command 'kcmshell kcmfontinst --embed 39848451 --lang en_US' not found.

I have no clue how to fix this any help would be greatly appreciated.

and yes i ahve tried reinstalling the packages again and yes i did get them all.

uselpa · 07-15-2005, 01:58 PM

Maybe your PATH is messed up?

pu@slackw:~$ which kcmshell
/opt/kde/bin/kcmshell
pu@slackw:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.

zwyrbla · 07-15-2005, 02:45 PM

this is what i got

zwyrbla@desktop:~$ which kcmshell
/opt/kde/bin/kcmshell

zwyrbla@desktop:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin:.

uselpa · 07-15-2005, 02:55 PM

You say that problems arise for programs that require root privileges. Maybe you could try to login as root into KDE and do the same check.

zwyrbla · 07-17-2005, 03:20 PM

as root i just get

Command '/opt/kde/bin/kcmshell clock --lang en_US' not found.

uselpa · 07-18-2005, 01:18 AM

What I meant is login as root into KDE, open a shell and check your path as above.

zwyrbla · 07-19-2005, 10:04 PM

root@desktop:~# which kcmshell
/opt/kde/bin/kcmshell
root@desktop:~# echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/opt/www/htdig/bin:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:/usr/share/texmf/bin

uselpa · 07-20-2005, 02:04 AM

One other thing I can think of is that KDE 3.4 changed your config files in a way that they are no longer understood by KDE 3.3. You might try to "mv ~/.kde ~/.kdeold" in initlevel 3 and restart X,KDE. You'll lose your settings but it's worth a try. You can always revert to the old situation by renaming .kdeold to .kde again.