https://www.kubuntuforums.net/ Post Kubuntu 26.10 specific questions here. This Kubuntu release will reach EOL (End of Life) for its 9 months of flavor support July 2027. Unless you have a specific need to keep this release, be sure you upgrade prior to this date. en Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:46:03 GMT vBulletin 60 images/misc/rss.png https://www.kubuntuforums.net/ https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694966-hardware-or-media-issue-trying-to-install-26-10 Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:24:54 GMT tried installing 26.10 five times today, and every time the installer would start to a full screen (not a fan at all of that full screen installer...
tried with multiple drives, thinking maybe the formatting was an issues, so brand new drive didn't work, ssd didn't work, ssd with windows didn't work. every time the system would hang without error at the full screen black screen.

after 26.10 i tried installing 26.04, and that installer started correctly, but the first install failed, but the second install seemed to finish without issue. the failures don't seem sporadic enough to be a random hardware issue, and 24.04 works on that machine, as does windows. ]]> Kubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray suplero https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694966-hardware-or-media-issue-trying-to-install-26-10 https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694925-upgrade-no-new-release-found Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:10:54 GMT ​]]> Kubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray hallergard https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694925-upgrade-no-new-release-found https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694848-lock-screen-time-format-edits-not-changing Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:08:09 GMT Doing my normal settings changes... and getting correct 24H time, I change the QML in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/qml/org/kde/breeze/components...
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/qml/org/kde/breeze/components

Clock.qml

Basically following, the below, but updating the path, as above,... since.. oh don't get me started... any way...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/7831...24-hour-format

No joy..

Edited, save , hit keyboard short to lock, no joy, still idiot time, log out, still no joy, idiot time, reboot, ditto..

Any ideas

If it matters, this is a test in KVM, don't think that should matter, but...
]]> Kubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray rec9140 https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694848-lock-screen-time-format-edits-not-changing https://www.kubuntuforums.net/forum/current-supported-releases/kubuntu-26-10-stonking-stingray/694792-best-practice-for-blocking-kde-6-8-and-borqing-x11-setups-and-fixing-synaptic Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:34:05 GMT First, lets just get the ground rules everyone here is already familiar with my hatred and disdain of wayturkey. So Thanks, lets just leave that out...
Soo.. leave the security drama theatre and wayturkey cheerleading behind.. Thanks!

So I decided to a test of 26.10 just to see what last hurray will be there since KDE 6.7 is the default... which led to the idea that hmmmm... any updates to KDE 6.8 via backports etc. would need to be BLOCKED. Probably a good idea for the 26.04 ESR's too!

So whats the best method of this, I do NOT WISH to hammer this with disabling backports repo, but just nuking KDE being updated beyond 6.7.x

I don't do auto upgrades and updating, period. But since I need to reeducate my brain to not just do this and then get a KDE 6.8 which will break X11....when I do the normal updates in the CLI...

I am looking at something along the lines of:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/quest...-not-available

But I am not an apt pinning guru, and I want to be sure I being granular enough that the 6.7 branch of KDE is fine to update, but anything beyond that is NOT acceptable. Now possibly others have figured this out and if kde-session-x11 is installed, that blocks things? Don't know... but I don't want to rely on that as in most cases people make choices which are opposite of my choices/desires in this space ala auto updates, upgrades and notifications of updates/upgrades available.. don't care thanks.

Basically which package(s) do I need to pin to the 6.7 KDE branch to prevent any changes to KDE desktop and thus X11.

So thoughts, ideas? Suggestions? on blocking KDE updates that would break X11

Next would be still synaptic is not allowing the search/filter bar as per the link as I've always done.. again, I though this was fixed in Debian and thus should filter down Ummm?? Bueller??

https://askubuntu.com/questions/7638...6-04-and-later

Or things are going to need to be hard purged, and reinstall a proper synaptic from:
https://launchpad.net/~nrbrtx/+archive/ubuntu/synaptic , at lest for 26.04 ESR...

This thing too is falling to one of those areas of people should leave things alone! I don't care what issue there is with libept or whatever.. urrhghghghghhhhhh. Just YOU don't use something, or use your system remotely etc.. doesn't meant there are not others doing so who have done so for longer than most of you likely have been alive too! urghghghghghg... ommmmmmmmmm....

Just for edification for other X11 refugees X11 was SUCCESSFULLY RESTORED in 26.10 for my KVM testing setup, and LightDM was installed to permit XDMCP along with Xephyr for that setup.

Well I am off to get some drinks, as this just pushed my buttons too much... ommmmmmmmm... clink... sllooosh..
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