RE: Newbies stink |^<

["Konrad Podloucky" <konrad calvin tssc univie ac at>]

On 03-Dec-98 José Pedro Sousa do Amaral wrote:
> I just upgraded my AS 200 from RH 5.1 to RH 5.2. I selected the upgrade 
> option during the installation, and it went smoothly. However, now all of 
> my previously well functioning system is broken: KDE does not start, 
> several commands are not acknowledged in the shell...
> Is there hope to fix it or shall I start from scratch?
> <sad>
> ZP
> 
> José Pedro S. do Amaral
> 
[snip]

Did the upgrade install new C++ libs? This would explain why KDE doesn't work.
I compiled KDE against the 2.8.0 libstdc++ and recently upgraded to 2.9.0 and
then all KDE applications just did NOTHING. A symbolic link named
'libstdc++.so.2.8.0' to the new libs corrected the problem...

Your other problems could be just because of the same reason, but I'm not quite
sure...

Konrad

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