Fedora 12 Update Breaks X / KDE

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:23:09 +0100, Chris wrote:

> Yesterday I did a normal yum upgrade and it pulled in a few packages 
> (listed below).

The list appears to be unrelated to your problem with "kate".
Unless you've had some sort of file system corruption.
 
> Since then I've had problems such as Kate refusing to run, with
> 
> kate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/kde4/katepart.so: undefined symbol: 
> _ZN9QGroupBoxC1EP7QWidget

That belongs to /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4
Can you verify your Qt package?  rpm -V qt
And show what version is installed?  rpm -q qt

> Konsole taking several attempts to start up without segfaulting
> 
> Acrobat Reader immediately crashes the X server on startup
> 
> and more. Does anyone else see this? Know when another yum upgrade will 
> fix it?
> 
> The packages that got updated were
> 
> Apr 22 09:12:52 Updated: krb5-libs-1.7.1-7.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:12:53 Updated: lm_sensors-libs-3.1.2-2.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:12:57 Updated: 1:xscreensaver-base-5.11-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:12:58 Updated: 1:xscreensaver-gl-base-5.11-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:12:59 Updated: 1:enchant-1.6.0-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:03 Updated: 1:xscreensaver-gl-extras-5.11-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:09 Updated: 1:xscreensaver-extras-5.11-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:11 Updated: lm_sensors-3.1.2-2.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:13 Updated: krb5-devel-1.7.1-7.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:15 Updated: krb5-workstation-1.7.1-7.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:17 Updated: kid3-1.4-1.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:17 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.7.6-3.fc12.i686
> Apr 22 09:13:22 Updated: tzdata-java-2010f-3.fc12.noarch
> Apr 22 09:13:31 Updated: tzdata-2010f-3.fc12.noarch
> Apr 22 09:13:33 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.6-3.fc12.i686
> Apr 23 09:05:19 Updated: oprofile-0.9.6-5.fc12.i686
> Apr 23 09:05:20 Updated: 12:dhclient-4.1.1-13.fc12.i686
> Apr 23 09:05:21 Updated: oprofile-gui-0.9.6-5.fc12.i686
> 
> 
> Many thanks,
> Chris R.
>