Problems with 9.04 -> 9.10 upgrade

[Jeffrey Barish]

Abdullah Teke wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Jeffrey Barish
> <jeff_barish at earthlink.net>wrote:
>> As the upgrade completed, I think I saw a message flash by about a Plasma
>> crash.  In any case, the login screen appears, but when I try to log in,
>> the
>> background appears, the desktop tries to draw the desktop folder, and
>> then
>> it all disappears.  I get the X cursor and then I am back at KDM.  In
>> short,
>> it is not possible to log in.  I did a clean install on a spare disk and
>> copied over the .kde hierarchy so that I could at least run Knode to send
>> this message.  After googling, I conclude that no one else has
>> experienced
>> the same problem with the upgrade.  Nevertheless, I wonder whether anyone
>> has any suggestions how to fix the problem in the upgraded system.  I am
>> hoping to avoid reinstalling all my applications to the clean system,
>> which took me many days when I did it for 9.04.
>
> Please try mv .kde  to .kde.orig and then logout and login again.
> 
Yes.  That was the first thing I tried.  Made no difference.  Thanks anyway 
for the suggestion.
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Jeffrey Barish