lodp
January 28th, 2009, 09:46 PM
Hi,
I just upgraded my Kubuntu Intrepid box to KDE 4.2, and now I'm stuck with a dysfunctional system. It boots normal as far as the KDM login screen, but after I log in, I'm stuck an empty background image and a mouse cursor.
When installing, I followed the instructions for 8.10 in the release note kubuntu.org: I added those launchpad repositories and the gpg-key, ran an Adept Manager upgrade, which took a while. Towards the end of the process I was asked to supply a new MySQL root password, and whether I wanted to keep or replace my old kdmrc file (I chose to replace it). After the upgrade was done I tried to log out, but that wouldn't work. So I hit ctrl+alt+backspace, and the Alt+E to restart X. And that's where I now: I can't log in to KDE anymore. I don't have gnome installed either.
I can select console login and get a command prompt, but I have no clue where to go from here. Can I remove those new repositories, reinstall kubuntu-desktop and get KDE 4.1.something back?
EDIT: Solved. I ran and apt-get upgrade from the command line, which installed kdebase-workspace-data. Then I installed kubuntu-desktop, which also installed kdebase-workspace-bin, after which KDE 4.2 started normally.
This is pretty serious. If I hadn't had my laptop as a backup and found that tip with installing kubuntu-desktop somewhere, I would probably have had to re-install my entire system.
I just went to bugs.kde.org to report this, and their database server was down because of too many connections :)
I just upgraded my Kubuntu Intrepid box to KDE 4.2, and now I'm stuck with a dysfunctional system. It boots normal as far as the KDM login screen, but after I log in, I'm stuck an empty background image and a mouse cursor.
When installing, I followed the instructions for 8.10 in the release note kubuntu.org: I added those launchpad repositories and the gpg-key, ran an Adept Manager upgrade, which took a while. Towards the end of the process I was asked to supply a new MySQL root password, and whether I wanted to keep or replace my old kdmrc file (I chose to replace it). After the upgrade was done I tried to log out, but that wouldn't work. So I hit ctrl+alt+backspace, and the Alt+E to restart X. And that's where I now: I can't log in to KDE anymore. I don't have gnome installed either.
I can select console login and get a command prompt, but I have no clue where to go from here. Can I remove those new repositories, reinstall kubuntu-desktop and get KDE 4.1.something back?
EDIT: Solved. I ran and apt-get upgrade from the command line, which installed kdebase-workspace-data. Then I installed kubuntu-desktop, which also installed kdebase-workspace-bin, after which KDE 4.2 started normally.
This is pretty serious. If I hadn't had my laptop as a backup and found that tip with installing kubuntu-desktop somewhere, I would probably have had to re-install my entire system.
I just went to bugs.kde.org to report this, and their database server was down because of too many connections :)