phiebie@... wrote:

> As more and more software-updates clash with their dependencies against
> what KDE needs or provides, I wanted to install trinity, preliminary
> stable, alongside KDE. KDE should stay operational till I had
> transferred my settings and programs aso to trinity.
> No go!
> Tdebase was fetched and seemingly installed, but when I restarted the
> computer and wanted to start KDE, there was only a black screen with
> the mouse-cursor and whatever I did with keyboard or mouse, nothing
> happened. Cold reboot to clear memory, same thing.
> Okay, let's then have a look at trinity. A blue screen with the logo
> appeared and after a few seconds something like "no ..... available
> check your installation"and I only could close that window via a warm
> reboot. KDE gave me the black screen again and also TDE said
> "check installation".
> Installed TDE again, same results as before. Half an afternoon had
> passed with no desktop still available.
> Glad, that I had backupped my system before the experiment and could
> restore my working KDE.
> So there's also a clash between TDE and KDE, incredible!
> Where should I look for the culprit for this disaster?

Hi I am not using KDE - I tested it when they promised that it will be great
and I am still waiting :)

The problem you describe is however strange. I guess you had an issue with
the login manager.

More important to understand the problem is to be able to reproduce it, but
you provide frustrated complains (which is understandable), but no
additional information.

Let's go a step back and you explain how you installed and what you did step
by step. Did you follow the how to from the WIKI?

regards