kicker gone wild

[Gilboa Davara]

On 9/13/06, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 18:30 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 11:08 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 12:14 +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > >
> > > > Did you try login/logout.
> > >
> > > I did the ctrl/alt/backspace and re-logged in and that cleared it up.
> > >
> > > > What's the kicker version?
> > > > $ rpm -qf /usr/bin/kicker
> > >
> > > kdebase-3.5.4-0.4.fc5
> > >
> > > Ric
> >
> > Did you, by any chance, run 'yum update' during your previous session?
>
> Good guess, I believe I did. What happened do you think? Ric
>

kdelibs/kdebase must have gotten upgraded.
Mixing old(er) and new(er) libraries and binaries tends to drive KDE crazy.
Once you logged in again, the 'new' libraries were loaded with the 'new'
binaries which solved the problem.

- Gilboa