Testing Kubuntu 12.04.1

[samigina]

Hi.

In my laptop I have Kubuntu 12.04. x64 up to date, everything is OK. Today I downloaded the Kubuntu 12.04.1 x64 iso (for my future installs) and tested it within Virtualbox, installed fine, but if I update to the kubuntu backports it crash after KDM. I get some messages (plasma-desktop, kwin) and an empty desktop (krunner works).

If I run in a terminal plasma-desktop it ends with "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply".

Anyone having similar issues?

[woodsmoke]

Hi
you may be in the same situation to which I posted in another thread. Sometimes MUON updates bork things if there is a huge update. Most of the time MUON does fine.

Since you have a terminal, somebody may pop by to give you the correct command to either finish the update or to get the destkop back.

Otherwise, it may be that you will have to do what i did because I could not invoke a terminal.

That was to re-install and then use sudo apt-get upgrade and it will update just fine.

I had the same problem in a previous release, some folks blame Muon, others do not, but using sudo always works.

woodsmoke

[samigina]

Hi
you may be in the same situation to which I posted in another thread. Sometimes MUON updates bork things if there is a huge update. Most of the time MUON does fine.

Since you have a terminal, somebody may pop by to give you the correct command to either finish the update or to get the destkop back.

Otherwise, it may be that you will have to do what i did because I could not invoke a terminal.

That was to re-install and then use sudo apt-get upgrade and it will update just fine.

I had the same problem in a previous release, some folks blame Muon, others do not, but using sudo always works.

woodsmoke

I forget to say that I updated with "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade", not with Muon.

[vinnywright]

from in a terminal install kubuntu-desktop and see if that fixes things .....if not try just kde-window-manager .

VINNY

[samigina]

from in a terminal install kubuntu-desktop and see if that fixes things .....if not try just kde-window-manager .

VINNY

It doesnt work.

Im a little worry about this, I dont want to install iy in a system and get the same problem. Could be a problem just with virtualbox?

[BigAl-sa]

There seems to be something very fishy with 12.04.1 upgrade which may also be in the 12.04.1 installation. I tried to upgrade my missus's PC and it broke with this bug, which Canonical have decided is invalid. So I now have a Kubuntu PC which is in limbo - it boots into 10.04 and works fine, but apt is completely trashed

[vw72]

If the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't fix the problem with the broken upgrade, you should look at what it lists at being held back. Sometimes, installing something from a 3rd party ppa will set a requirement that keeps something in KDE from being allowed to upgrade. From the list that is shown as being held back, you should be able to install those manually and the one that is creating the conflict will tell you it needs to uninstall the conflicting application.. Then after everything is upgraded and working, go back and install the problematic app and it should use the new libraries.

My process has always been to purge third party ppas before doing an upgrade, just to be safe. (at least ones that supply kde libs and components)

[BigAl-sa]

If the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade doesn't fix the problem with the broken upgrade, you should look at what it lists at being held back. Sometimes, installing something from a 3rd party ppa will set a requirement that keeps something in KDE from being allowed to upgrade. From the list that is shown as being held back, you should be able to install those manually and the one that is creating the conflict will tell you it needs to uninstall the conflicting application.. Then after everything is upgraded and working, go back and install the problematic app and it should use the new libraries.

My process has always been to purge third party ppas before doing an upgrade, just to be safe. (at least ones that supply kde libs and components)

Remember what I said, apt is broken, you can't use it to fix anything...

[NickStone]

If APT is "broken" like you said then you'll have to download the source code for APT and compile it yourself. That should solve that problem.