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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.

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

Thank you for the suggestion.

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

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).

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?

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.

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!

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