mellow2
April 27th, 2015, 02:25 PM
I tried to register to kubuntu forums, but for some reason cannot create an account, so maybe someone here can help. I upgraded my Kubuntu to 15.04. Everything went fine until I tried to reboot. Grub starts alright, I choose Ubuntu 15.04, then there's a flash, the screen turns black and back on and I get a message "Starting version 219" and a blinking cursor and it just freezes there. Well, I snoop around and find out that i should hit ctrl+alt+f2, then run "sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f" then reboot. Ok sounds easy, but ctrl+alt+F2 doesn't do anything. I reboot to recovery mode and run the terminal as root, then try to run
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f As I already guessed, it sounds too easy. I get "Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)". Ok, I search for more information and find some other people with the same problem. Apparently the solution is to first run
sudo dpkg --configure -a then
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f This has worked for everyone so surely this will work for me too? Well, after "sudo dpkg --configure -a" I get "dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system". Are you kidding me? I try to google the meaning of this error message and apparently it should be fixed after removing /var/lib/dpkg/lock and then running
dpkg --reconfigure -a Sounds good but after "rm lock" I get "rm: cannot remove lock: Read-only file system". On top of that "dpkg --reconfigure -a" gives "dpkg: error: unknown option --reconfigure".
Turns out I am able to start Kubuntu by first going to recovery mode then choosing resume and then plasma. If I choose openbox, all I get is a grey background and cursor, nothing more. I am at a loss here. Can someone please help?
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f As I already guessed, it sounds too easy. I get "Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)". Ok, I search for more information and find some other people with the same problem. Apparently the solution is to first run
sudo dpkg --configure -a then
sudo systemctl enable sddm.service -f This has worked for everyone so surely this will work for me too? Well, after "sudo dpkg --configure -a" I get "dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system". Are you kidding me? I try to google the meaning of this error message and apparently it should be fixed after removing /var/lib/dpkg/lock and then running
dpkg --reconfigure -a Sounds good but after "rm lock" I get "rm: cannot remove lock: Read-only file system". On top of that "dpkg --reconfigure -a" gives "dpkg: error: unknown option --reconfigure".
Turns out I am able to start Kubuntu by first going to recovery mode then choosing resume and then plasma. If I choose openbox, all I get is a grey background and cursor, nothing more. I am at a loss here. Can someone please help?