[KDE] Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

[penguinbait]

BOOT FROM SD USERS ONLY


I will update this later with more information, but here you go.

Install this and you will boot to KDE instead of Hildon

Uninstall this and you will boot back to Hildon as normal

DO NOT USE

PCQ, just what you wanted ;)

[PinCushionQueen]

I installed this and now I'm stuck in a reset loop :( I get the booting from mmc2 screen and the blue bar starts to move across the bottom but then stops about 75% of the way and reboots. This process just keeps looping. I can't even get in to uninstall. Please help!

[penguinbait]

I installed this and now I'm stuck in a reset loop :( I get the booting from mmc2 screen and the blue bar starts to move across the bottom but then stops about 75% of the way and reboots. This process just keeps looping. I can't even get in to uninstall. Please help!

uh oh, we can fix this, can you boot to flash?

can you pm me how to contact you via IM (AIM yahoo, something)

or try this

Boot to flash
--------------------------------------------
open xterm
become root
mount your boot from SD partition (say /disk - you would have to make the dir)
dpkg --root=/disk --admindir=/disk/var/lib/dpkg -r kde-boot

This will remove it from the SD partition cleanly

[PinCushionQueen]

uh oh, we can fix this, can you boot to flash?

can you pm me how to contact you via IM (AIM yahoo, something)

I sent you a PM, I've only got jabber and google chat hope that's OK and yes I can boot to flash.

[penguinbait]

OK, PCQ, is all fixed using above instructions

Thop, Aisu

did you try, did you have any troubles?

[PinCushionQueen]

OK, PCQ, is all fixed using above instructions

Thop, Aisu

did you try, did you have any troubles?

Yup! Uninstalling the deb using xterm in flash fixed everything. I'll try to install again after I get a chance to update my OS. Thanks again for your help:D

Thop & Aisu - if this deb worked for you, what version of OS are you running? PB is using the most current version of OS2008 and I'm using the one just before (v2.2007.50-2). Just trying to figure out why I got stuck in the reset loop :confused:

[yabbas]

Doh...nearly there PB :D

[Cfuzz]

It didn't work for me either, same reboot loop on OS2008 diablo.
I uninstalled the deb and managed to successfully boot kde directly doing the following:

1. change /etc/rc2.d/S51hildon-desktop to /etc/rc2.d/K51hildon-desktop
2. create a file in /etc/init.d/kde with the following content:


#! /bin/sh

SCRIPT=/usr/local/bin/stopmaemo
SU=`which su`

if [ "x${SU}" != "x" ]
then
SUUSER="${SU} - user"
fi

case "$1" in
start)
$SUUSER $SCRIPT
sleep 8
;;

stop)
echo "$0: not implemented"
exit 1
;;
restart)
echo "$0: not implemented"
exit 1
;;
force-reload)
echo "$0: not implemented"
exit 1
;;
*) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac



3. Make sure the script has -x permission.


chmod +x /etc/init.d/kde


4. Created a symlink in rc2.d in order to start kde at the end of the boot process:


cd /etc/rc2.d
ln -s ../init.d/kde S99kde


And that's it. When I select the external card on the bootloader kde loads directly. I still have to fix the issue that if you log out of kde, it starts hildon-desktop instead of shutting down.

hope this helps someone.

[penguinbait]

Not sure what your problem was, but this was built for diablo and I am running it on 36-5. So I am unsure why you had an issue?

[smog]

I also had the loop issue with the latest diablo

[penguinbait]

I also had the loop issue with the latest diablo

How did you install KDE?

[sondjata]

I'd love to use this. Ugraded to Diablo last night and I don't want to get caught in a loop. lol

[smog]

How did you install KDE?

I have your latest release on sd; fleshly installed yesterday. It's ok on it's own but cant boot directly to it.

By the way, a big thank you for KDEv4 and all your work.

and totally unrelated : do you think you will re-release a version of ICEWM fitting within flash and working with microB and other OEM applications ?

[smog]

I'd love to use this. Ugraded to Diablo last night and I don't want to get caught in a loop. lol

the provided instruction saved the day :D

[penguinbait]

I have your latest release on sd; fleshly installed yesterday. It's ok on it's own but cant boot directly to it.

By the way, a big thank you for KDEv4 and all your work.

and totally unrelated : do you think you will re-release a version of ICEWM fitting within flash and working with microB and other OEM applications ?

I had planned to get it updated, but nobody seemed interested. I will take a look and see about a new package.

[penguinbait]

I have reloaded everything and I don't actually use the boot to KDE often. I do appear to be having a problem too. It failed to boot to KDE, and rebooted. I then let it boot to KDE again and it came up fine.

So I tried again, It failed to boot 2 times and then booted the third time. I will have to troubleshoot whats happening.

[smog]

I had planned to get it updated, but nobody seemed interested. I will take a look and see about a new package.

if it's easy; I would be the first one to welcome the new version.

I don't like hildon but the soft is OK so having ICEWM as the window manager would be very nice and lightweight.