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Folks,

After a successful install of M5 yesterday, I've gone to log on this morning and there's no KDE. It was logging me in to some horrible looking, very basic desktop that only works with one and a half of my four monitors. So, I lanuched draakconf from the command line and found it had lost the KDE install.

I selected KDE in Software Management, installed that and at least I can get back into KDE. However, the show desktop and Dolphin icons have gone from the system tray and the normal log in screen has been replaced by something very basic looking that only renders on one and half of my four screens. The rest just being white.

Anyone else seen this? Anyone know how I can get back "normal" KDE and the proper log in screen please?

Thanks!

OK, got most of it back. Had to install kdeplasma-addons as well, delete plasma-desktop-appletsrc & plasma-desktoprc in USER/.kde4/share/config/. However, my login screen is still borked!

Was that a fresh install, or maybe just an upgrade? And what media did you use? Apart from that, packages don't vanish over night ...
Also, from what I understood on first login you noticed you "lost" KDE - if that was the first login, how can you be sure it was present before?
Also, what exactly did you select afterwards, as for mga5 there's KDE4 and Plasma5, see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Err ... F_Plasma_5

And what login manager is currently selected? http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/drakedm.html

It was a fresh install - over the top of an existing KDE4. As always, I install and wipe my /boot and / partitions, everyhting else being untouched. I used the DVD which I'd downloaded. It most definitely was perfect yesterday after I installed Mageia 5; looked like a totally normal log in. So, that's how I can be 100% sure that it was there after install yesterday and not this morning. Bear in mind that after I did the install yesterday, I worked the rest of the day on it (Mageia 5). It was the standard reboot after install to take me into KDE that showed the standard login screen and bog standard KDE4 desktop.

Something got corrupted/uninstalled somehow, there's no absolutely doubt.

On install I do as I've done for years and years through Mandrake and Mandriva. I selected a custom install, selected KDE and on top of the standard ticked boxes, also chose development and a few other installs like database, server etc. Exactly the same as I always do.

I can't stress enough that yesterday it was perfect. I did quite a lot of post install tinkering such as installing Qt Creator, Cutecom and all the other packages that I use on a day-to-day basis and it worked the whole of yesterday perfectly.

The login manager that is currently selected is KDM. the only other option I have is XDM. At login, the screen looks blue on my main screen, one screen is about half blue and the rest white, with the other two screens white. The login is achieved by typing my user name into the first box, hitting enter, then entering my password. At this point, now, after reinstalling KDE from MCC, all four screens are normal and their orientation just fine.

It says KDE 4.14 on the start menu.

What's really weird is that the login screen looks corrupted, whichever one it might be. I could take a photo and upload it if it would help.

DiBosco wrote:It was a fresh install - over the top of an existing KDE4. As always, I install and wipe my /boot and / partitions, everyhting else being untouched.

That is not a fresh install, as far as keeping at least /home is concerned, you should always mention things like that.
You could create a fresh user to see if you can reproduce the issue.

Apart from the login screen, any other remaining issues? And yes, a photo would help to describe what you see.

Weirdly, after I went back into Set up display manager in MCC, even though KDM was selected, when I chose OK instead of cancel, it said it was going to restart the log in manager as KDM; lo and behold, the normal log in screen is back. Weird! The whole thing is a very odd episode!

Thanks for the pointers, I'd never even noticed that Set up display manager option before!

doktor5000 wrote:

DiBosco wrote:It was a fresh install - over the top of an existing KDE4. As always, I install and wipe my /boot and / partitions, everything else being untouched.

That is not a fresh install, as far as keeping at least /home is concerned, you should always mention things like that.

It is fresh install as opposed to an upgrade. It wipes boot and root and only keeps the /home and /opt partitions. How would you differentiate between that and the upgrade thingy with the white arrow on a blue background? (Not being sarcastic, just seems like a fresh install to me. It's certainly not an upgrade.)

Let's say it's a migration installation, but regarding keeping existing/old settings it's equal compared to an upgrade.
For the next time please always mention if you kept /home as the rest doesn't matter that much.