help me with kde4

[AHAROON111]

i just installed kubuntu 7.10 then befor update anything i installed kde4. when i restarted my pc everythung now comes in text mode i cannt see any gui of kde4 i cannt login to the kde3 all in text mode . i tried to alt+f8 i got this message/etc/rc2.d/s99kdm:75:genkdmconf-kde4:not found now how to get gui for kde4 or the kde3 i dont care i just cannt deal with text mode

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

Well first of all welcome to the party.

Can you tell us how you installed kde4?

I understand that you don't like text mode. It looks like the kde4 install borked something.

Can you reboot into recovery mode and then just type startx at the prompt?

If not what are the error messages you receive?

Lets start there and go on from that.

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

thank you man for your helping look what i did. i add this line to the end of this file /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ubuntu gutsy main

then i run this commands

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install kde4-core

and this was the last time i saw gui i restarted my pc and everything comes in text. bythe way i really like kubuntu 7.10 there is alot of changes since 6.06 i tried many distro each for a weak since 3 years every time i found proplems and i back to windows but now with 7.10 i dont think i need windows anymore

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

Good and we are happy, so sit back and enjoy

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

enjoy what?? i cannt see anything everything is in textmode it like dos just type commands no desktop no graphical login screen just command i cannt deal with this now i want real graphical desktop like it was or i want to back to kd3 desktop anything i could deal with without reinstalling the whole system

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

Okay sorry I missunderstood you.
So boot into recovery mode. At the prompt type startx->press "enter". If that works you will be root mode on a gui in kde3.5.8

If you are there get back and we will take it from there. okay?

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

ok man i'll try now and tell you

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

thanks man you r the best im in kde3 what i have to do now to repair kde3 and is this proplem means i cannt install kde4?? im learning from you man

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

Okay cool. Now open up a terminal: kmenu->system->terminal
then copy and paste this:

dpkg-reconfigure kdm

into the terminal after the prompt.
Give your password, you won't see anything just press enter.

You should get a screen explaining a bunch of stuff about kdm. Press the arrow keys until the "ok" shows up red. Press enter again and choose kdm. Press enter again and log out. Press ctrl+alt+del to reboot. You should now be able to log in as your user.

after that we will deal with kde4.Okay?

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

i did what you said i trid this 3 times but i still in the same place nothing changed still i login textmode still have that message

/etc/rc2.d/s99kdm:75:genkdmconf-kde4:not found

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

Okay. Hmmm.....
Now boot back into recovery mode and open: /etc/x11/default-display-manager with kate.
It should read:
/usr/bin/kdm
if it doesn't change it to the above.

Edit: I have to go in about 30 min. Just a thought. Try uninstalling kdm-kde4 (it does not work) and reinstalling kdm with adept/synaptic/apt-get remove.before doing the above.

i'll be back in about 2hours.

[AHAROON111]

Re: help me with kde4

look idid installed kkubuntu-desktop and i loged in text mode and typed startx it works but when ilogin i want to get the graphical screen.

Now boot back into recovery mode and open: /etc/x11/default-display-manager with kate.
It should read:
/usr/bin/kdm

i opened the file it only contain
/usr/bin/kdm

[themusicalguy]

Re: help me with kde4

Hi there,

Ok, I'm having the same problem but I've done some investigating and the problem seems to be that the

/etc/init.d/kdm-kde4

script has the following line:

genkdmconf-kde4 --in $KDMCFGDIR 1> /dev/null

However, in the kdm-kde4 package only the following executable exists:

/usr/lib/kde4/bin/genkdmconf

It looks like this executable got overlooked when the kde3 interoperability adjustments were made for packaging. I'm guessing that simply renaming this file to the kde4 naming scheme will do the trick. I'm about to try it so I'll post when I have an answer.

[themusicalguy]

Re: help me with kde4

Unfortunately it didn't work, the kdm-kde4 package seems to be broken. The best thing to do for the moment would be to use the kde3 version.

Also, if you find yourself at a text screen again don't panic... Just log in and run:

sudo kdm

That will get you to a graphical environment.

[Fintan]

Re: help me with kde4

i opened the file it only contain
/usr/bin/kdm

that is what it is supposed to read. Did you uninstall kdm-kde4 and reinstall kdm?

If it still doesn't work then do:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure kdm

again.
It should show only kdm (or nothing,. can't remember) just press enter and reboot.