[arch-general] KDE-unstable - kapps crash on start (konqueror, kmail, etc.) [Solved]

[David C. Rankin]

On Thursday 18 June 2009 02:11:48 pm David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. wrote:
> Listmates:
>
> 	On my i686 box I am experiencing crashes for many of the default 'k'apps
> like konqueror, kmail, etc. I have provided the backtraces to kde.org. I
> went back and installed the kdemod3 kde3.5 to have access to the kde3.5
> versions of the same apps within kde4.3. I don't know if the Arch
> developers are interested in me providing the backtraces or not. Let me
> know if you want them and I will send them in.
>
> 	The remainder of kde43 is working well. Still some quirks, no doubt, but
> impressive.

	There are two rather strange rules to keep in mind if you want to run kdemod3 
and kde-unstable in parallel.

(1)	kde-unstable must the the LAST group of packages you install or you will 
get the crashes described above with virtually all 'k'apps for kde4. If you do 
install kdemod3 after installing kde-unstable, then just re-install kde (0 
byte download, just reinstall) and it will solve the problems

(2) After uninstalling/reinstalling kde/kdemod3, run 'updatedb' and your box 
will be much happier.



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