10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

[johny5]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

I upgraded over the net. I'm pretty sure it's important to mention that my desktop completely froze during near the end of the upgrade. I hit reset after waiting for about half an hour.

[The Liquidator]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Yep, that is important. I suspect some packages didn't get properly installed.

You need to get to a command line. Immediately after the BIOS post you need to hit the shift key. That should reveal your grub menu including a rescue mode. Select that and when you come to the options select command line with networking. (you will need a wired connection).

Then type

sudo dpkg --configure -a

That should finish the installation of all downloaded packages. Then when that is done type

startx

Do you get anywhere? If so, reboot the machine (as you will be root) and try starting as normal.

HTH

[johny5]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

I had already tried this with no success.

I finaly was able to get it to work. It was a problem with libGL.so.1 which isn't supposed to exist in lucid. Some older driver put it there, but the upgrade did not clean it correctly. I did a simple unlink and everything is fine now.

I had to start kde directly using 'xinit startkde' from console (once kdm was stopped). It generated a .xession-errors containing "Could not open library ksmserver: Cannot load library /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_ksmserver.so: (/usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv000135gl)
ksmserver: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libGL.so.1: undefined symbol: _nv000135gl
startkde: Shutting down..."

[The Liquidator]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Glad you got it working again

[Guest]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

I used the Distribution upgrade function on kubuntu 9.10. Everything went OK up to the login after reboot, but then no graphical interface was started, just a black screen with the pointer. I found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9229435, that suggested to install plasma-desktop. I did so and the graphical user interface started after reboot.
To do the install I used Alt+F2 to start the "command prompt" and then started system settings by enterring systemsettings.

[The Liquidator]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Yes, on upgrading from KDE 4.3.x to 4.4 there is a slight change in structure, and as a result when upgrading KDE (I assume with karmic you were not using 4.4) that package is not picked up by the upgrade and needs installing separately. It has caused a lot of head-scratching in the recent past that one

[CyborgAlpha]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

I had a similar problem

After a successful upgrade over the internet, I rebooted (as the request popped up in the notification box). The update was for Ubuntu 10.04 not Kubuntu 10.04, which I did not think there was a problem - because kubuntu is kde ubuntu, instead of gnome.

However, on reboot two errors were listed, after the bios post, 1) error: no suitable mode found and 2) error: terminal not found - then it hangs (blank screen). To reboot, the computer must be unplugged.

I tried reinstalling from a usb key (a usb bootable form of the liveCD) but the problem prevented the standard installation.

[ghendric]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Since I upgraded to 10, at boot up when GUI starts, I get an error message "Cannot open theme file /usr/share/kde4/apps/themes/oxygen-air. Then when I click the Ok button, it takes me tty1 login. I can log in and then run "startx" and the KDE will start. I'm not sure what I need to edit so that the system will boot up into the KDE. I'm new to linux so I'm not sure what to do. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[The Liquidator]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

ghendric - I'm a little confused, you say you are new but you have upgraded.

Were you running 9.10 before, without issue? If so, what version of KDE were you running before the upgrade? I case you are not sure about this, did you enable any of the repositories to upgrade KDE whilst you were running 9.10?

[Guest]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Similar problem here after updating (last time even formatting /):

kdm fails to login: After entering username and password, it sends me back to login screen. After the second try it just freezes showing kdm background picture.

I can get into kde after login from terminal and doing startx /usr/bin/startkde but then I get no audio at all (in System Settings > Multimedia I get an error "Sound device HDA... desn't work) and there is something weird with permissions: running KPackageKit doesn't ask for password and, of course, get an error when trying to install anything. Apt-get from a Konsole shows no errors.

If I boot in Recovery Mode and run startx /usr/bin/startkde from a root terminal, then audio works without problems.

I've tryed removing .kde folder and even removing .Xautorithy, with no result. Any idea?

[ghendric]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

ghendric - I'm a little confused, you say you are new but you have upgraded.

Were you running 9.10 before, without issue? If so, what version of KDE were you running before the upgrade? I case you are not sure about this, did you enable any of the repositories to upgrade KDE whilst you were running 9.10?

I had been running 9.1 for about a month and then it wanted to upgrade to 10. I'm a newbie so I'm still learning the system. I think I had it set to upgrade. I recall seeing something like that..

[The Liquidator]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

@ghendric

Actually, a solution to your problem would appear to be already on the forum

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3109987.0

[gudwin]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

Hi,
I had the exact same problem ... the kdm started ok, but after loggin in, during the second icon blinking, something failed and kdm asked again for my password. After looking for a solution in many forums, I found what, in my case totally solved the problem. I use an nvidia card, and the nvidia driver. In the past I have installed the nvidia driver directly from the nvidia executable. After many upgrades, and starting using nvidia drivers from the ubuntu repository, I didn´t realized it still had some libraries installed in my system, which were incompatible with the newer nvidia driver. The solution in my case: I had to download the newest nvidia driver:

wget http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree8...36.24-pkg1.run
chmod ugo+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run
sudo ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.36.24-pkg1.run

The driver de-installed the old libraries and installed the newer ones, which were compatible to the ubuntu packages. After that, my Kubuntu went back to normal. I hope this can be useful for some of you too.
Regards,
Ricardo

[zender]

Re: 10.04 broke my kubuntu, how to fix?

As the OP of this thread I was relieved (but not happy) to learn that others
suffered the same fate when upgrading to lucid. The previous post describes
my situation pretty well. After re-downloading and installing the NVidia
drivers, however, my kdm (and gdm) still cannot transition to the desktop.
I must have tried fifty purges/reinstalls/upgrades and clearly some X or
GL or NVidia libraries were and are unhappy.
However, the suggestion to directly start X myself with

startx /usr/bin/startkde

does work, so I can finally log into my own desktop.
(This is a relief after three weeks of being forced to run Vista/Cygwin).
But I miss session management and fear I will have to do a fresh install
of Kubuntu in order to recover that. Also I learned that my broken sound
(in Kubuntu) is not broken in GNOME desktop, so I may switch from
Kubuntu to Ubuntu for ~5 months until the next release.
Does anyone know how to start GNOME from a terminal session
analogous to starting KDE above, e.g., is there a

startx /usr/bin/start_gnome_from_terminal

command?

Wishing all the Kubuntu people good luck.
Charlie