Setting up wi-fi, missing system tray

[krodrig2]

Hey, im running kde neon on my macbook pro 2009 with this nic BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller so reinstall did the trick for me, the desktop showed for me but the doc icons did not show and a few others after running the upgrade in the terminal and rebooting everything works perfectly now.

[schlurb]

Try running this to get your wifi up and running: sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source after that run nmtui-connect to activate the card...hope this helps...i had the problem with a lot of things not showing up on the desktop or dock, i ran this to fix that problem: sudo apt full-upgrade, or apt dist-upgrade. Hope this helps.

Unfortunately neither of those helped the system tray problem, thanks for the input though. The wifi issue was solved earlier in the thread!

[krodrig2]

Try running this to get your wifi up and running: sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source after that run nmtui-connect to activate the card...hope this helps...i had the problem with a lot of things not showing up on the desktop or dock, i ran this to fix that problem: sudo apt full-upgrade, or apt dist-upgrade. Hope this helps.

[schlurb]

It's entirely possible I messed something up when trying to set the initial partitions as this is my first time trying something like this. On the macOS side, before kubuntu install, I created a 6gb swap partition and (I think) a 50gb partition for the kubuntu install.

Here's that output:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
UUID=67E3-17ED /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 2
UUID=2bcf461d-17f8-468f-9aeb-25aca65d85c6 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0​

(I'm not 100% sure how the tag formatting works, if I messed this up, my apologies!)

[Schwarzer Kater]

I really wonder what this is:

├─sda3 vfat FAT32 SWAP 4F9B-1AEE

It seems to be not mounted and is the wrong file system type for a swap partition. And macOS uses swap files…

Could you post cat /etc/fstab before I tell you how to reinstall the whole system?


PS: Please post terminal output in CODE or QUOTE tags, thank you. Also use "paste without formatting" when using CODE tags.

[schlurb]

btw, just reinstalled plasma-desktop with the correct syntax, and after a reboot, it didn't bring back the system tray unfortunately.

[schlurb]

No worries hornswaggled & claydoh! All input here has helped me learn!

If we can take the non-full-wipe possibility at this point I'd love that, as I've started a fresh save in Cataclysm I'm a little attached to already. But if we have to go the nuclear route that's okay too. Here's lsblk -f -e7:

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
  sda
  ├─sda1
  │ vfat FAT32 EFI 67E3-17ED 166.1M 16% /boot/efi
  ├─sda2
  │ apfs 00241c48-0163-419b-a91a-9aa2ec82dd05
  ├─sda3
  │ vfat FAT32 SWAP 4F9B-1AEE
  └─sda4
  ext4 1.0 kubuntu_2404 2bcf461d-17f8-468f-9aeb-25aca65d85c6 31.3G 26% /var/snap/firefox/common/host-hunspell
  /
  sr0​

I'm fairly certain I did the "Normal" installation when prompted.

[Schwarzer Kater]

[…] You are correct (and I stand corrected). I've just always used sudo apt install --reinstall packagename. Old dog ya know.

No, you are also correct - I use apt-get install --reinstall in scripts (to avoid directly using apt), but apt install --reinstall also works in CLI. As does apt reinstall.

[claydoh]

No, it's sudo apt install --reinstall packagename [Added: The 'old' way of doing it, and while no longer documented in the current apt man file, it still works this way.]

I definitely missed a word there. Oops, and sorry to all.

[Snowhog]

… or nowadays simply sudo apt reinstall packagename

Well, I'll be hornswaggled. You are correct (and I stand corrected). I've just always used sudo apt install --reinstall packagename. Old dog ya know.

[Schwarzer Kater]

… or nowadays simply sudo apt reinstall packagename . claydoh just had too many "-" to spare…

I am afraid this won't reinstall the dependencies, though, will it?


PS: You can nearly always use the additional --dry-run flag for apt to test things first if you want to.

There is the possibility to reinstall the whole system with the Calamares installer and still keep your /home including all user settings and data if you are not able to solve it this way.
For safety I would have to know your set-up first, e.g. the installation method you used ("Minimal", "Normal" or "Full") and the information from lsblk -f -e7 and possibly more…
Then I could write up a step-by-step "how to" for you.

[Snowhog]

The syntax is incorrect -- use apt --reinstall packagename

No, it's sudo apt install --reinstall packagename [Added: The 'old' way of doing it, and while no longer documented in the current apt man file, it still works this way.]

[claydoh]

Alright! Love that attitude. Packages updated. I tried running

sudo apt install reinstall kde-plasma-desktop

and

sudo apt install reinstall plasma-desktop

but got hit with "E: Unable to locate package reinstall" both times, it looks like I've got the name wrong

The syntax is incorrect -- use Audi apt install --reinstall packagename . <----Oops! Fixed it.

Without the double dash, apt thinks you want to install two packages, one named 'reinstall'

[schlurb]

Alright! Love that attitude. Packages updated. I tried running

sudo apt install reinstall kde-plasma-desktop

and

sudo apt install reinstall plasma-desktop

but got hit with "E: Unable to locate package reinstall" both times, it looks like I've got the name wrong

[Snowhog]

If this is the end of the line for where you're able to help, I just want to say I really appreciate all the time you've put into guiding me through this and the progress you have helped me make. As this is my first foray into this community, you've really left a glowing impression, thank you for everything!

No one here will tell you (or anyone) "We're done. You're on your own." That's not how we roll.