KDE SC 4.5.3 Nightmares

[sblass]

I got burned with the KDE SC 4.5.3 packaging SNAFU last night, leaving me with a non-functional system.

Today, I have TWICE reloaded 10.10 from the install CD, and then updated to 4.5.3 and whatever else was new. Because there was a new Linux kernel installed, I did system restarts. In both cases, after the KDE login, it jumps to a totally black screen with just my mouse pointer. Unrecoverable.

And my Dell 1501 system is one that never got a fix for the bootup problem with the advent of 10.04. Every day I have to wait 10 minutes for the screen to go dark after the boot process reaches the login screen. Thereafter, I can press the shift key and everything would be normal.

I really didn't look at KDE SC 4.5.3 very much before doing the system restarts, but I did spend some time in Dolphin. The visual aesthetics are shocking. It looks like I time-warped back to the Win 95/98 days!

[skunk]

Try some of the workarounds listed here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788

[NoWorries]

Try some of the workarounds listed here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788


I unfortunately did the updates for all my systems and therefore had no working computer for which my wife was most annoyed. By trial and error I found out how to get the grub menu on startup (F11) so that I could take the repair option. Unfortunately all the latest updates did not fix the system, so I still had no boot-able computer. I ended up using the installation CD to connect to the Internet and found a number of solutions. The one which retained all the latest KDE 4.5.3 updates involved the steps listed below.


@rklz

I had the same problem with kpackagekit.

But with aptitude I had no problems. I did the following:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
sudo rm -rf /tmp/kde*
sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache*

Then reboot.


Hope this helps get to the solution quickly for all concerned without having to trawl through all the solutions given.

[molostoff]

Try some of the workarounds listed here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788


I unfortunately did the updates for all my systems and therefore had no working computer for which my wife was most annoyed. To have the latest KDE 4.5.3, I followed the steps which I have listed below.


@rklz

I had the same problem with kpackagekit.

But with aptitude I had no problems. I did the following:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
sudo rm -rf /tmp/kde*
sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache*

Then reboot.


Hope this helps get to the solution quickly for all concerned without having to trawl through all the solutions given.


btw, I have updated successfully - first update was incomplete, so I had to wait (for two/three hours), until aptitude said that all updates ok (nothing to delete except libwheatherion4).
There is a tiny advice I can say after success 9.04...10.10 update procedures - newer do them quickly, just wait for a day or two.

[Teunis]

Thanks for the tips.

But so far everything worked fine on the two systems I upgraded, one with Intel and one with nVidia.

The/A difference might be I still don't use KPackageKit but Adept.

[molostoff]

Thanks for the tips.

But so far everything worked fine on the two systems I upgraded, one with Intel and one with nVidia.

The/A difference might be I still don't use KPackageKit but Adept.


For a serious update (when a massive package set is going to upgrade and where are variants can be presented by aptitude in case of incomplete parts are still building) I prefer to run aptitude in a console.

[dubish]

I have the same problem. Unfortunately I still have been struggling with it for 3 days. I gave the the suggested commands:

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude full-upgrade
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
sudo rm -rf /tmp/kde*
sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache*

First of all I have to mention that, I added the next two lines in /etc/apt/sources.list filel:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu maverick main

In the console I gave the next commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

After the kde update (kfe4.5.3) I have recognised that kde is missing from the session button, thus I always get in a black screen. Just tell me what commands you gave. I am sure that there is a serious problem when people try to upgrade their kde-based (kubuntu) official linux system to a higher version (may be the method of solving this problem is wrong) !!!

The Kubuntu dev. Team do not offer us an adequate help or say a light clue regarding kde-upgrade related issues. Hopefully this would be under-consideration in the future. Thanks a lot.

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[Teunis]

I do not see any evidence your problem is common.

But it's quite nasty for you. :(

Have you tried getting to a command line, log in and do a sudo startx?

[claydoh]

DO NOT run 'sudo startx', the 'sudo' is not needed and could mess with permissions in your home directory. If you just run 'startx', you will get either a KDE desktop, or error messages if it does not.

[fifth]

I had the same issue ... sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop ... fixed it for me.