[csw-users] [kde-solaris] Pkg-get upgrade broke my KDE...

[Markus Mayer]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[kde-solaris] Pkg-get upgrade broke my KDE...
> Date: 	Thu, 9 Feb 2006 14:18:16 -0500
> From: 	<EBradley at williams-int.com>
> Reply-To: 	For people using KDE on Solaris, with questions about KDE or
> Solaris <kde-solaris at mail.kde.org>
> To: 	<kde-solaris at mail.kde.org>
> 
> 
> 
> *Hello,*
> **
> *I hate to be a 'Chicken Little', but I ran pkg-get upgrade on my
> Solaris 10 SunBlade 100 and now I can't log into KDE.  I had been
> running KDE 3.4.2 (REV=2005.9.18) with no problems for a while now and
> during the upgrade, I noticed that only kde_base was getting upgraded to
> 3.4.3 (REV=2006.01.08), while the rest of KDE was not.

This problem, I am pretty sure, is related to Bug 1455
(http://www.blastwave.org/mantis/view_bug_page.php?f_id=1455).

Somehow all the binaries in kdebase 3.4.3 (REV=2006.01.08) got linked
to both CSWqt and CSWqtgcc.

> Is there a way to roll back the kde_base package to the previous
> version?

Yes, get the latest kdebase version from stable (using your favorite
mirror), say:
  $ wget http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/csw/stable/sparc/5.8/kdebase_gcc-3.4.2,REV=2005.09.20-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz
then remove the existing CSWkdebasegcc package and install the one from
stable you just downloaded.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Markus