SugarHiccup Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 So, last night I shut the laptop down as normal, and tonight when I start her up, she gives me a login screen. I have auto login set, so thought it was a bit odd. Logged in, only to find myself in IceWM instead of KDE. Logged out, but there were no options to login to KDE or Gnome, and using anything other than IceWM (custom/default/failsafe) spits me back out to the login screen. I've googled but nothing seemed relevant. Can anyone suggest anything I can try? Anywhere I can find details on why suddenly my laptop hates me? I'm using Mandriva 2007 Spring and would love to be back in my nice safe KDE where I can access all my files, because I don't seem to be able to use much apart from a browser in IceWM. I'm uh, slightly technically challenged, so I like it when my computer just *works* Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snat Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 (edited) Do you know if any updates was installed before you turned it off ? You can try deleting "~/.kde" folder and all the files as it will reset back to your original KDE settings. Edited September 15, 2008 by Snat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarHiccup Posted September 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Yep, a whole lot of updates ran that night coz I hadn't done it for a while, could that have caused a problem? Deleted /.kde and all the files ... nothing, and still no option to login to kde at the login menu. Getting desperate now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medo3891 Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 This will sound a bit dump but try installing from command line, the task-kde package: su urpmi task-kde Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SugarHiccup Posted September 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 urpmi task-kde Apparently there is no such package, grr. Ok, my next next step is ... ok I don't have a next step. I need my files, so if I backup via command line, I have no problems reinstalling Mandriva, might even upgrade to 2008.1 ... I see no other option, which is sad. I switched to linux to avoid this sort of thing, I hated having to reinstall windoze every time something went wrong :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 17, 2008 Report Share Posted September 17, 2008 (edited) Apparently there is no such package, grr. And equally apparently, you either run the above command as plain user and not root, or you haven't set your URPMI repos. task-kde is a metapackage, and it does exist to Mandriva 2007, 2007.1, 2008, 2008.1... Reinstalling will not lead you anywhere... and will cost more time than a rather simple fix. Better set your repos right now and run, as suggested, "urpmi task-kde" in a ROOT konsole (kdesu konsole). Edited September 17, 2008 by scarecrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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