1.        KDE 3.0.1  I loaded linux into my Mandrake 8.2 linux system, using the Mandrake rpm.  Since I had loaded the QT 3.04 libraries directly from tar.zip from Troll-Tech, Mandrake's rpm manager didn't know about it and I ended up with a messed up "Path" statement and two copies of QT 3.04 and also QT2.  This temporarily messed everything up.  I changed the directory name of the QT2 directory so that I could access QT3.04 -- and then was temporarily baffled that the kdm login/startx system quit working, I would get a "respawning too fast" error and the x-server would shut down.

Turned out that kdm uses the QT library, so when I renamed the library back to what it was supposed to be, kdm started working.

However, that did not solve all of my problems.  As installed, KDE 3.0.1 crashed on exit from every program (Signal 6).  And, although I thought it was possible to choose to use the KDE 2.2 interface, I couldn't figure out how to do that.  Except, however, when I ran "root" I continued to have a KDE 2.2 startup instead of a KDE 3.0.1 startup.

It was very weird, but things get weirder.  At 3:00 a.m., I gave up and went to bed.

Next morning, for no apparent reason, KDE 3.0.1 had decided to quit crashing all the programs upon close.  I don't know why.  Maybe it was the fact that I shut the machine down and did a cold re-boot, but I did that as well during my efforts to figure out the problem.

As I say, "Weird."

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