Can't log into KDE after upgrade of Qt [Solved]

[magesha]

Hi,

I just installed the latest updates to Qt via Entropy, using equo commandline. There was a problem during the install and it just stalled. After waiting for 2+ hours, I killed the process and then re-ran the installation. Everything went fine, but then after I rebooted, I can't log into KDE anymore. I share some of the logs here.

Xorg.0.log: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5056
.xsession-errors: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5057
dmesg: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5058
messages: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5059
rc.log: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5060
fdisk -l: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5061 (btw, this took a long time from sabutil menu, and slowed my system down like crazy so I had to stop it and use fdisk -l | pastebunz instead)
kdm.log: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5062
Hardware Info: http://www.sabayon.org/pastie/5063

Please let me know if anything else is needed. I see a lot of errors in kdm.log and in .xsession-errors, but can't make any sense.. Help much appreciated.

Thanks,
Magesha

[free_energy]

I had a similar problem with my amd64 cpu and nvidia card.
Fortunately you have the full equo and emerge facility without kdm.
Use eselect list and you might see a new kernel version selected. I saw 2.2.36 on one of your logs.
If the last kernel you eselected video for was 2.6.35 ,which is where I am at, you need to eselect your video card.
For nvidia I had to emerge the genkernel source for the nvidia driver to install properly. Nvidia requires kernel source to compile. I don't have any experiance with the intel video card which I think it is open source and is already included in the kernel. The video driver must be installed for each kernel upgrade.
I'm new to Sabayon and have good hopes it can get me to a flexible system. I have the same kind of problems with Ubuntu and their lack of source kernel and build-essential utilities in their install disc. I see you have Windows so you can look at the Sabayon wiki page. I have learned to always have two operating systems on every computer.

[magesha]

Thanks free_energy, but I don't think the problem was caused by change to the new kernel, although it could be and it only blew up when I update Qt. Anyway, the kind people in the irc (genfool and Azerthoth, among others) helped me out, and I did a few things:

1. Deleted ~/.kd* first to see if it fixed it but it didn't,
2. equo install kde-meta: which installed, to my surprise 107 packages, Still didn't fix
3. equo libtest && equo deptest: The libtest installed some18 packages, and deptest installed two, after restarting x, I got KDE but lost sabayon customizations,
4. Copied /etc/skel/.kd* into my ~/ preserving the paths (cp -a /etc/skel/.kde* ~/)

Now, it is back to how it was in a fresh install. I am going to mark this as SOLVED.

Cheers,
Magesha