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

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 ;)

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

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!

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by PinCushionQueen (Post 184094)

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

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by penguinbait (Post 184095)

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.

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

OK, PCQ, is all fixed using above instructions

Thop, Aisu

did you try, did you have any troubles?

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by penguinbait (Post 184136)

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:

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

Doh...nearly there PB :D

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

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:

Code:

#! /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.

Code:

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:

Code:

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.

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

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?

Re: Boot to KDE instead of hildon. DEB!!

I also had the loop issue with the latest diablo