Quote Originally Posted by turbinater
Sounds like everything is seriously screwed. If It was my machine, It would take me probably a week to work everything out.

TIP: After reinstalling, backup everything in etc. I go one further and back up every file I change, every package I install, and so on, on cd-r's every month or so.
Good idea! (backing up /etc) -- if the cdwriter package doesn't crash ;-(.

In the mean time, ftp.debian.org started responding, and I upgraded a ton of stuff,
(basically reinstalling KDE from scratch -- 3.1.4 -- which fixed nothing..
learned that if I turn off aRTs I get xmms back, and have reduced the problem to
that libpthread and kdecore.so.4 issue -- still pretty major.

I have tried compiling kdelibs4 from source via
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
but after configuring just fine, it bombs due to a Xinerama(_pic) dependency
that I can't seem to eliminate..

Still looking for clues...

j.