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Old 07-25-2011, 10:53 AM   #1
ethereal1m
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Question Troubleshooting Crashing KDE


Dear all,
my KDE crashes after I try to install another another distro in different partition as described in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-893449/

I tried to install Linux Oracle in /dev/sda1 while Slackware in /dev/hdb trying to perform multiboot. The installation wasn't a success for some reason. However, after the installation attempt, KDE crashes while tty2-4 works well.

I don't know what stuff that touched the KDE settings (when I tried to login, it brought me to a default settings that I didn't set) and broke some stuff there. The installation was in the different hard drive, and in the installation menu I told it that it mustn't touch /dev/hdb.

What is the first step to troubleshoot the broken KDE?

Best regards,
ethereal1m
 
Old 07-25-2011, 11:41 PM   #2
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I marked this thread as solved and create a new one since I think thread description of the problem is not representing the problem correctly..
 
Old 07-27-2011, 03:34 PM   #3
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I do not know where KDE leaves it's log files when it crashes, but:

$ rm -r ~/.kde

resets all your KDE settings and although it is a pain to re-configure KDE, it always solved my KDE troubles.

You could also delete all files and directories in /tmp from runlevel 3:

# telinit 3
# rm -r /tmp/*

Chris

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Old 07-27-2011, 03:38 PM   #4
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisAbela View Post
$ rm -r ~/.kde
I would in this case simply rename the .kde directory,
Code:
mv .kde .kde_bkp
so the directory cannot be accessed by KDE and nothing is lost if one wants to restore the previous settings.

Markus
 
  


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