I think that this is my 5th or 6th upgrade of kubuntu...and no, I don't want to do a fresh install.
I am running xfce on top of kubuntu with an Nvidia video card.
So I downloaded the DVD image to upgrade locally, because last upgrade I did the day after the release came out... and it took F O R E V E R. But I couldn't figure out how to a local upgrade (grumble)... for some reason the liveCD woulnd't launch right, an issue with the noveau driver.
So I bit the bullet and spent the day letting it download the updates, and everything went pretty smoothly. But upon reboot and login (to try KDE) all I got was the background image and the X mouse cursor and couldn't do anything at all. So I restarted and tried to log into XFCE and got the same exact thing. In the console I noticed that the only thing that was running for xfce was /bin/sh /usr/sbin/lightdm-session startxfce4. I was able to manually launch xfce4-session. After that, I logged out and tried again, thinking it needed a saved session to start up... but same thing.
So now I am up and running, but not fully and something isn't right. Why wouldn't lightdm be able to launch KDE, xfce, etc? I didn't see any obvious errors in logs. I did get a "system error" dialog around apport-gtk and gsettings. But I did an update and installed the packages that came up. Any help is appreciated.
I am running xfce on top of kubuntu with an Nvidia video card.
So I downloaded the DVD image to upgrade locally, because last upgrade I did the day after the release came out... and it took F O R E V E R. But I couldn't figure out how to a local upgrade (grumble)... for some reason the liveCD woulnd't launch right, an issue with the noveau driver.
So I bit the bullet and spent the day letting it download the updates, and everything went pretty smoothly. But upon reboot and login (to try KDE) all I got was the background image and the X mouse cursor and couldn't do anything at all. So I restarted and tried to log into XFCE and got the same exact thing. In the console I noticed that the only thing that was running for xfce was /bin/sh /usr/sbin/lightdm-session startxfce4. I was able to manually launch xfce4-session. After that, I logged out and tried again, thinking it needed a saved session to start up... but same thing.
So now I am up and running, but not fully and something isn't right. Why wouldn't lightdm be able to launch KDE, xfce, etc? I didn't see any obvious errors in logs. I did get a "system error" dialog around apport-gtk and gsettings. But I did an update and installed the packages that came up. Any help is appreciated.
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