can't start KDE after update

[reggler]

hi There,

I was recommended to add the ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports repos and update in order to get my Kontact as well as KDE updated.
That's what I did, ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade until there were no more packets to install, I rebooted and KDE isn't starting anymore. I get a lil dialog from kdm that says /usr/binstartkde could not be found. Fine shell login and do the update, upgrade stuff again, there's nothing left to be installed/updated now but kdm still won't starrt kde cause of the missing /usr/bin/startkde. A manual startx is telling me that the compatible NVIDIA x driver was not found even tho i ran the driver installer from NVIDIA again and it didn't return an error... how am i getting my system back into a running state?
Thanks!
Ron

[reggler]

Re: can't start KDE after update

hi There,

I was recommended to add the ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports repos and update in order to get my Kontact as well as KDE updated.
That's what I did, ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade until there were no more packets to install, I rebooted and KDE isn't starting anymore. I get a lil dialog from kdm that says /usr/binstartkde could not be found. Fine shell login and do the update, upgrade stuff again, there's nothing left to be installed/updated now but kdm still won't starrt kde cause of the missing /usr/bin/startkde. A manual startx is telling me that the compatible NVIDIA x driver was not found even tho i ran the driver installer from NVIDIA again and it didn't return an error... how am i getting my system back into a running state?
Thanks!
Ron

Uhm, can anyone help me here or am I just left to reinstall my whole system?

[dibl]

Re: can't start KDE after update

ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade until there were no more packets to install, I rebooted and KDE isn't starting anymore. I get a lil dialog from kdm that says /usr/binstartkde could not be found.

It's hard to know what all got pulled in during the process, and/or whether anything got pulled out. I would suggest commenting out/disabling the backports repo for the moment, then follow this series of steps:

- Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in to the CLI

sudo service kdm stop
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo service kdm start

This may result in starting KDM and bringing up the login greeter. If so, we can consider KDM fixed. But, depending on what you have with the Nvidia card and driver, the desktop may still not come up correctly. If not, we can deal with the video driver issue. Good luck -- post back if you get error messages.

[reggler]

Re: can't start KDE after update

ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade until there were no more packets to install, I rebooted and KDE isn't starting anymore. I get a lil dialog from kdm that says /usr/binstartkde could not be found.

It's hard to know what all got pulled in during the process, and/or whether anything got pulled out. I would suggest commenting out/disabling the backports repo for the moment, then follow this series of steps:

- Ctrl-Alt-F1 and log in to the CLI

sudo service kdm stop
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
sudo service kdm start

This may result in starting KDM and bringing up the login greeter. If so, we can consider KDM fixed. But, depending on what you have with the Nvidia card and driver, the desktop may still not come up correctly. If not, we can deal with the video driver issue. Good luck -- post back if you get error messages.

Ok, did that, had to reinstall the NVIDIA driver again before kdm would launch but now it's back up. Nice, thanks!