Upgrade YDL 3.0 to 4.0 on Oldworld G3

[Geert Janssens]

Disclaimer: I'm very much aware oldworld hardware is not officially 
supported by YDL 4.0. But I tried anyway, and got pretty far... I don't 
think even that the problem I'm having now is oldworld related, but 
rather upgrade vs fresh install. Anyway, here goes:

Hi,

I started an attempt to upgrade my 3.0 installation to 4.0 on my
oldworld G3, following the instructions at
http://www.shiner.info/?manuals/ANS-from-3-to-4.html

Compared to these instructions, I had to remove a couple of
self-compiled packages before I could do the full upgrade, but then I
could continue.

After the reboot, I am facing a problem though:

KDE won't start anymore. I can start a gnome session (which I am using
now to type this message), but starting a KDE session gives me the
following error message:

startkde: Could not start kdeinit: Check your installation.

After clicking Ok, I can view a more detailed error log:

/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running /usr/bin/X11/sessreg -a -w 
/var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" 
"janssege"
which: no fs in 
(/usr/kerberos/bin:/opt/OpenOffice.org.1.1.2/program:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/lib/j2re1.3.1/bin:/home/janssege/bin)
/usr/bin/startkde: line 16: [: argument expected
kde-config: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot 
open shared object: no such file or directory
xset: bad fontpath element (#64), possible causes are:
     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
     Directory missing fonts.dir
     Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
ksplash: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot 
open shared object: no such file or directory
kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot 
open shared object: no such file or directory
startkde: Could not start kdeinit: Check your installation.
Warning: Connect() failed: No such file or directory
kmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libqt-mt.so.3: cannot 
open shared object: no such file or directory
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: Connect() failed: No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

As I see it, I have 2 problems apparently:
1. no fontserver can be found (no fs in ..., followed by an error 
message in xset)
This only happens when starting kde, and maybe it's even a non-issue if 
the other error is solved:

2. libqt-mt.so.3 can't be found. This is a bit weird, because it is 
installed:

[janssege at g3ydl janssege]$ rpm -q qt
qt-3.3.3-3.ydl.1

[janssege at g3ydl janssege]$ ls -l /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib
total 16340
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 8177280 Aug 22 21:12 libdesignercore.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    1031 Aug 22 21:11 libdesignercore.prl
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  572188 Aug 22 21:12 libeditor.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     935 Aug 22 21:11 libeditor.prl
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   50016 Aug 22 21:12 libqassistantclient.a
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     946 Aug 22 21:11 libqassistantclient.prl
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     923 Aug 22 21:11 libqt-mt.prl
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 Dec  2 00:49 libqt-mt.so -> 
libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 Dec  2 00:41 libqt-mt.so.3 -> 
libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      17 Dec  2 00:41 libqt-mt.so.3.3 -> 
libqt-mt.so.3.3.3
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 7662584 Aug 22 21:12 libqt-mt.so.3.3.3

Is there a symlink missing, or another configuration not right ?


Anyone any ideas ?

Thank you,

Geert Jan