[Mageia-discuss] KDE update problems? Maybe?

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Marc,

On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:22:53 -0400
Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com> wrote:

> I am just wondering if it is just me, but, ever since the KDE update,

Which KDE update?

> I had problems with my desktops and laptops (5 in total). I have had
> to delete .kde4 (Home folder) on 4 of these boxes, and the last one
> has not been updated yet (my son just finished his summer holidays
> and was breaking in his Windows partition with his new install of
> WOW); 

Just a note - NEVER (!!) delete ~/.kde4/ as this will lose all your settings.
You can instead move it away using the "mv" command:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mv

I'm just mentioning it so people won't be encouraged to do so (and you shouldn't do
so in the future).

> now that summer vacation is over and WOW time is reduced, he
> will have to update. I was hoping he would try playing WOW on his
> Mageia partition.
> 
> Has anyone else had any problems?
> 
> Some of the problems that I have had:
> 
> -- general slow down in speed
> -- Klipper would disappear at login
> -- the Lan connection Icon would disappear
> -- some of the KDE preferences would somehow go back to their default
> state 
> -- log off widget in the taskbar (lower-right) would quit
> responding
> -- re-start option (Start button ...) would also stop
> responding
> 


I didn't encounter any of these problems either on Mageia 2 x86-64 or Mageia Cauldron
x86-64. If you can reproduce them somehow, you can file bug reports on http://bugs.kde.org/ .

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> The problems happened intermittently. The KDE bug assistant did come
> up on one of my 2 laptops but I did not have sufficient information
> to submit the bug report, just general stuff like above.
> 
> I've deleted the .kde4 file and they all run fine now.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marc
> 
> 



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