[SOLVED] How to revert back to mga3 from mga4?

[mikeumo]

Hello,

I ran
urpmi --replacefiles --auto-update --auto

after I already had Mageia 3. It was some time later that I realized that the new updates were mga4 packages. Many things stopped working. So, how do I go back to mga3 system?

Mikhail.

[spiky001]

Have a look here
viewtopic.php?p=30377#p30377

[mikeumo]

Thank you for the suggestion.

Unfortunately, changing the mirrors and running urpmi does not revert any packages....(all pckages are up to date)

[doktor5000]

Yes, that is correct, as the instructions given there are for the switch from cauldron, when Mageia 3 had been released, to Mageia 3 stable.
Your best bet is reinstalling with keeping your /home partition (after doing a backup, as usual).

[mikeumo]

Yes, that's what I eventually did. At first, I tried

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urpmi -- downgrade <package>

But with several hundred packages it took some time and in the end I could not get X to start (only in failsafe mode).

So I reinstalled from a mirror but I still cannot get KDE to start normally. If I start from CLI as normal user I get NVIDIA splash screen and then switch back to CLI and it says the server successfully terminated. No errors on CLI or in Xorg.0.log.

However, I can start X as root, again with no errors.

Any ideas?

[doktor5000]

Move away/rename your KDE configuration via

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mv /home/username/.kde4 /home/username/.kde4_backup

Otherwise create a new user and try with that one.

[mikeumo]

This did occur to me after I reinstalled everything from DVD and things started working little by little. Thank you for the suggestion, doktor5000. I shall keep it in mind next year!

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks