KDE messed up on update from Hardy to Jaunty

[Terrell Prude' Jr.]

Lisi Reisz wrote:
> Someone whose computer I administer has updated directly from Hardy to Jaunty.  
> He now cannot log-on to KDE.  The process starts and then hangs.  Presumably 
> this is to do with the change from 3.5.x to 4.x.x.
>
> I would prefer solve this without reinstalling as he has no back-up.
>
> All suggestions welcomed!
>   

By "the process", do you mean that the login screen doesn't show up, or 
that he gets the desktop but then it quits, or that he can enter in his 
userID/passwd and then he immediately gets kicked out--what, more 
precisely, are we talking about here?

--TP