SOLVED No login after updates

[quarkslot]

Applied some updates through Synaptic this morning after which I no longer see the GUI login screen but only get as far as the Kubuntu 10.10 splash screen cycling through 4 dots.

No problem with TTY login so I tried re-applying the updates from the CLI but no joy.

I tried running the plasma-desktop (not sure if that's a good idea or not) but it reports that this is not installed. Is this the cause of the problem, perhaps it was uninstalled during the update?

Should I try re-installing the plasma desktop or does anyone have other advice on next steps?

Thanks

Nick

[jalmargyyk]

I presume you are using the kubuntu updates ppa.

This is a packaging bug and there's a bug report already in.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788

If you're in a hurry, you can use ppa-purge to revert back to KDE SC 4.5.1.

[Jonas]

I noticed this before I applied the upgrade. What maybe annoy me the most is that with KpackageKit it's much easier to do this mistake - with moun there is the safe-upgrade option, I really hope they implement Muon instead of KpackageKit (I know there's always synaptic - I don't like it cause it reminds me of Gnome)

Anyway - not sure but it looks like it has been fixed(?)


sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libweather-ion4a
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libweather-ion5
The following packages will be upgraded:
dolphin kde-window-manager kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-dbg kdebase-workspace kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data
kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdelibs5-dbg kdelibs5-dev kdelibs5-plugins kdepasswd kdm kdoctools kfind khelpcenter4
kinfocenter konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konsole ksysguard ksysguardd ksystemlog libkatepartinterfaces4 libkde3support4 libkdecorations4 libkdecore5 libkdesu5
libkdeui5 libkdewebkit5 libkdnssd4 libkephal4 libkfile4 libkhtml5 libkimproxy4 libkio5 libkjsapi4 libkjsembed4 libkmediaplayer4 libknewstuff2-4 libknewstuff3-4
libknotifyconfig4 libkntlm4 libkonq5 libkonqsidebarplugin4a libkparts4 libkpty4 libkrosscore4 libkrossui4 libkscreensaver5 libksgrd4 libksignalplotter4
libktexteditor4 libkunitconversion4 libkutils4 libkwineffects1a libkworkspace4 libnepomuk4 libnepomukquery4a libplasma-geolocation-interface4 libplasma3
libplasmaclock4b libplasmagenericshell4 libprocesscore4a libprocessui4a libsolid4 libsolidcontrol4a libsolidcontrolifaces4 libtaskmanager4a libthreadweaver4
plasma-dataengines-workspace plasma-desktop plasma-netbook plasma-scriptengine-javascript plasma-widget-folderview plasma-widgets-workspace systemsettings
82 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[jalmargyyk]

Yeah, it should be ok now.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788/comments/34

[quarkslot]

Thanks for the updates.

This worked for me:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

The reboot.

Nick