F8 update kills KDE

[TNWestTex]

Bugzilla from kevin.kofler at chello.at wrote:
> 
> TNWestTex <mcforum <at> bellsouth.net> writes:
> 
>> ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_ksmserver.so:
>> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> This is your real error. The missing file is part of kdebase, please make
> sure 
> you have kdebase installed (not just kdebase-libs). Also check if you have
> the 
> other KDE components you want installed (again, not just the -libs part).
> 
> I'll try explaining what probably happened, it's fairly technical though:
> We 
> had some issues with splitting off -libs subpackages to avoid multilib 
> conflicts (conflicts between the .i386.rpm and .x86_64.rpm packages on
> x86_64 
> systems): to get rid of the i386 version of the main packages (which are
> no 
> longer shipped, only -libs is multilibbed, i.e. available as both i386 and 
> x86_64), we added an Obsoletes tag to the -libs package. However, what
> this 
> ended up with is that the main package got completely removed, even the
> one for 
> the main architecture, which of course is not what we wanted. This problem 
> should be fixed in the current Fedora 8 updates though, so it should not
> happen 
> again.
> 
> 
Thanks Kevin.

Kdebase was in /usr/lib/but not in /usr/lib64.  Had to erase and install as
the system wouldn't get back into phase.

Robert McBroom

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