kde failure after update on fedora 17

[Mark Gaudry]

I maintained updates on my Fedora 17 system regularly.  About 4 updates
back most of my kde based programs stopped working.  I kept adding updates
with the hope that the problem would be solved.  It has only gotten worse.
I can no longer run apper or the updater from the notification icon.  What
have I done wrong or installed that might be causing this?  I have
installed multiple user interfaces and choose the one I use from the login
screen listings.  Could one of the others be conflicting somehow?  If so
which one is usually the worst culprit?  I'll go in with one of the more
reliable alternatives and remove the bad one(s).  Any other ideas are also
greatly appreciated.

[Ed Greshko]

On 11/03/2012 07:07 PM, Mark Gaudry wrote:
>  I maintained updates on my Fedora 17 system regularly.  About 4
> updates back most of my kde based programs stopped working.  I kept adding updates with
> the hope that the problem would be solved.  It has only gotten worse.  I can no longer run
> apper or the updater from the notification icon.  What have I done wrong or installed that
> might be causing this?  I have installed multiple user interfaces and choose the one I use
> from the login screen listings.  Could one of the others be conflicting somehow?  If so
> which one is usually the worst culprit?  I'll go in with one of the more reliable
> alternatives and remove the bad one(s).  Any other ideas are also greatly appreciated.
What happens if you run "apper" from a konsole session?

-- 
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better
idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far,
the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

[Mark Gaudry]

I couldn't get a console or terminal session to run.  However, it did a run
apper from the search results for apper and it worked.  I then rebooted, as
I saw that kde settings was updated, and wow! it worked.  Something similar
happened once before, but within an hour, I could no longer run kde apps.
Hope this is a permanent fix.

Thanks.  This is so much better than Gnome and others.  KDE handles
multiple monitors better than anything else.  Especially on Fedora.
Kubuntu just doesn't quite match the performance of KDE on Fedora.

Thanks again.

Mark.

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com&gt; wrote:

>  On 11/03/2012 07:07 PM, Mark Gaudry wrote:
>  > I maintained updates on my Fedora 17 system regularly.  About 4 updates
>  back most of my kde based programs stopped working.  I kept adding updates
>  with the hope that the problem would be solved.  It has only gotten worse.
>   I can no longer run apper or the updater from the notification icon.  What
>  have I done wrong or installed that might be causing this?  I have
>  installed multiple user interfaces and choose the one I use from the login
>  screen listings.  Could one of the others be conflicting somehow?  If so
>  which one is usually the worst culprit?  I'll go in with one of the more
>  reliable alternatives and remove the bad one(s).  Any other ideas are also
>  greatly appreciated.
>
>  What happens if you run "apper" from a konsole session?
>
>  --
>  Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build
>  bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce
>  bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook,
>  The Wizardry Compiled
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