[csw-users] Problem with the CSW install of KDE-GCC on Solaris 10

[Andrew Chandler]

I found the problem - reverting to the previous qt_gcc from 9/16 at least
gets me the splash screens back changing the kde base did nothing. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces+andy=riftware.com at lists.blastwave.org 
> [mailto:users-bounces+andy=riftware.com at lists.blastwave.org] 
> On Behalf Of Mats Larsson
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 6:55 AM
> To: questions and discussions
> Subject: Re: [csw-users] Problem with the CSW install of 
> KDE-GCC on Solaris 10
> 
> On 2005-11-03 03:34, Markus Mayer wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday, 02 Nov 2005 09:27 -0800, Andy Chandler wrote:
> > 
> >> KDE starts but no icons and the animated startup progress screen 
> >> looks like a bunch of colored blocks - basically there are no 
> >> graphical resources - originally I had graphics but just no title 
> >> bars for minimizing / maximizing windows but now I've lost 
> even the 
> >> basic desktop icons and the kicker icons.
> 
> Same problem here but Solaris 8.
> 
> > You may have run into the same problem I saw this week-end after 
> > upgrading to the latest KDE from unstable: the windows didn't have 
> > frames around them (as if no window-manager was running), the panel 
> > looked weird, etc.
> > 
> > In this case your KDE problems won't have anything to do 
> with what you 
> > did, that would just be coincidence.
> > 
> > See
> >   http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1246
> > for more.
> > 
> > If you click on [Main] from there you'll see this note:
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >   In relation to Solaris 8/9, a move was made to start 
> including kwin
> >   and kxkb in KDE under Solaris. You'll find the main 
> kdebase packages
> >   as:
> > 
> >   http://www.blastwave.org/testing
> >   kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
> >   kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> > 
> >   Or, the older stable package:
> >   kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz
> >   kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I just checked, it has not been propagated to the mirrors yet, so 
> > you'll have to grab that package from testing and install 
> it manually.
> > 
> >   gzip -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> >   pkgrm CSWkdebasegcc
> >   pkgadd -d kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> 
> It does not. The problem is still there as Andy describes it.
> 
> Reverting to 
> kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
> doesn't work either :(.
> 
> Wonder which one of the packages is broken this time? I did 
> take the following upgrade:
> 
>         software                         old                  
>        new
>         --------                         ---                  
>        ---
>    kdeaddons_gcc                       3.3.1                  
>      3.4.2
>      kdebase_gcc        3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20                  
>      3.4.3
>       kdeedu_gcc                       3.4.1                  
>      3.4.2
> kdegraphics_gcc                       3.4.1                   
>     3.4.2
> kdemultimedia_gcc                     3.4.1                   
>     3.4.2
>     kdeutils_gcc                       3.4.1                  
>      3.4.2
> 
> And after that I replaced kdebase_gcc 3.4.3 with 
> kdebase_gcc-3.4.3,REV=2005.10.27-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz 
> but I still get ni icons/images.
> 
> /MOL
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