KDM Broken After Yum Update

Mark Fraser fedora at mfraz.freeserve.co.uk
Tue Feb 20 08:50:20 UTC 2007


In article <20070219042420.GA7059 at kurtwerks.com>,
   Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> 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 previously working KDM screen and background have been replaced by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?

I have both files in /etc/kde/, but Fedora thinks kdmrc.rpmsave is
JavaScript and looks nothing like kdmrc does.





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