KDM Broken After Yum Update

Kurt Wall kwall at kurtwerks.com
Mon Feb 19 04:24:20 UTC 2007


On Sun Feb 18 19:22:54 2007, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 05:05:18PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > Kurt Wall wrote:
> > > Afternoon, list,
> > > 
> > > I ran "yum update" this morning. After the update, KDM was borken, 
> > > rather severely hosing my KDM config.
> > 
> > What exactly does hosing my KDM config mean exactly?
> >
> Yah, not exactly my most informative message. Specifically, 
> /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc was not replaced, just renamed, such that the
> previously working KDM screen and background have been replaced by
> whatever defaults are compiled in.

Resolved. /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc had been renamed /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave
but no replacement or modified kdmrc existed. I renamed kdmrc.rpmsave
and everything returned to normal.

Packaing bug?

Kurt
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