Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

4.4.2 on both machines.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Hmm. With the repository added, you should be good to go for upgrade to KDE 4.5.1. Open K > System > Software Sources and look at the Updates tab. Is Unsupported updates checked? On my system, I have all of them checked.

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Okay, now currently upgrading. I didn't know if unsupported updates were a good idea to enable or not. I play things a little bit conservatively since my business runs on these machines. I might let the desktop run on the new release for awhile before I upgrade the laptop, which has been working flawlessly.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

When the download and upgrade finishes, assuming no errors are reported (possible, but not likely), you will want to run, from the console:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Repeat the above until no errors are reported. Again, these steps are likely not to be needed.

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Upgrade finished without errors. I ran the other commands and no other packages downloaded. Restarted and now the desktop is totally gone. Boots to the usual login GUI, I enter password and the desktop crashes immediately to black screen and text login prompt as before. Sudo service kdm restart does not help. Repeated re-booting gives the same result. A good friend told me that the situation is never so bad that you can't make it worse. Words to live by.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

At the command line, type:

sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

Are you told "kubuntu-desktop is already the newest version." or does it indicate that it will be installed? If the latter, accept and install.

[dibl]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Coming at the situation from another angle ....

Does a Kubuntu Live CD boot and run OK on that desktop box?

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

It says that it is the newest version. The live CD did run fine on the machine before I did the install.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

How much space is available on the root partition? Type:

sudo df -h

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

The root partition is 9.7 G, with 5.4 G available according to the results of the command you specified.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Okay, so space isn't an issue. From the command line, what happens with:

startx

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Sorry I can't cut/past here. I see in part:

Error setting to CPU domain 3: Input/output error

Fatal server error:
Failed to submit batchbuffer: Input/output error

ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log giving up.
xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to x server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Man, I don't know what to say. At this point, I'd be thinking of reinstalling, but that's me. Something has obviously messed with your system, but what is the question, and to what extent, another question. I'm sorry that I couldn't help you identify a solution.

[spyder79]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

Thanks for your help, I appreciate your willingness even if things went from a little messed up to completely screwed. Just glad I have my files backed up. Unfortunately my monthly web access has a cap and I won't be able to reinstall until next month, so it's a dead dog. Don't know if I should bother anyway because I might end up with the same problem.

At least I know better than to use the unsupported repository again.

[Snowhog]

Re: Lucid crashes intermittently, no pattern

One last thing to try, assuming you haven't already tried, is to remove/delete your .kde directory and reboot. IF it's something messed up in user configuration files, removing the .kde hidden directory will force it to be rebuilt with default values.

sudo rm -r /home/username/.kde

(where username is your login user name)
Then reboot. It's worth a shot.