Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

[timek718]

From what I can tell, here is my problem. I installed Beta 2 along with Kontact & the PIM packages.

I can get to the command line. I can run non-kde pacakages like synaptic & firefox but only one at a time. So it's not particularly easy to provide the 100% exact package names for this post. But I think what follows provides enough information to understand the problem.

This morning I upgraded the various packages KDE 4.1 packages. It appears that most of the base packages & a few more have been upgraded to RC1. HOWEVER, the Kontact/PIM packages have not.

The result is that I can boot into neither the KDE 3.5.9 nor the KDE 4.1 desktop. Running various commands from the command line, I find out that kde-icons-oxygen-something-something tries to overwrite some PNG file that is part of a package called "libkdepim4-kde4 (or something similar). Then apt-get dies with an error. If I try to remove the offending libkdepim4-kde4 (or something similar), it would appear that all of KDE 4 would be removed.

I would like to know if there is someway to launch KDE 4? Is there a some minimal solution like uninstalling specific packages? And if so which ones? Or do I pretty much have to wait for the upgraded packages for Kontact to become available?

All suggestions are welcome

[Guest]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I'm seeing a similar problem. I'm unable to get 'kdebase-runtime' to upgrade due to a dependency on 'kde-icons-oxygen':

root@striatum ~ # apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done     
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done   
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 kdebase-runtime: Depends: kde-icons-oxygen (>= 4:4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1) but 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa5 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

If I try with the force option, then I get the same issue as timek718:

root@striatum ~ # apt-get -f dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
 kde-icons-oxygen
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
25 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/49.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 971kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
 kde-icons-oxygen
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 138524 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace kde-icons-oxygen 4:4.0.83-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa5 (using .../kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement kde-icons-oxygen ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde4/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/appointment-new.png', which is also in package libkdepim4-kde4
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Note the authentication warning. I've tried just moving the PNG file out of the way, but that didn't help.

[Guest]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I found the following on a French forum that helped:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb

That at least fixed the upgrade problem, but Kontact isn't working. The Mail part fails to load, and the Calendar isn't working either.

[blackpaw]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I found the following on a French forum that helped:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb

That at least fixed the upgrade problem, but Kontact isn't working. The Mail part fails to load, and the Calendar isn't working either.

Same problem and the work around worked for me - thanks nobbie.

Haven't tested KDE4 Pim yet, but imagine I'll have the same problem. Kontact seems to the poor cousin in KDE, as I recall it was broken in the last major update (RC1) as well.

[Zerix01]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I had the same issue. The fix worked, Thanks!

[timek718]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I found the following on a French forum that helped:

dpkg -i --force-overwrite /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-icons-oxygen_4%3a4.0.98-0ubuntu1~hardy1~ppa1_all.deb

That at least fixed the upgrade problem, but Kontact isn't working. The Mail part fails to load, and the Calendar isn't working either.

Thanks. It's not a perfect fix, but at least I can load my KDE4 desktop now.

[rbetzen]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

Hmmm.....

On my system, the fix at least allowed me to log in to kde4, however plasma crashes as soon as it loads. I'll have to look at the error messages and see what I can post here later.

........

Ok here's what I'm getting. Anyone else seeing this?

<unknown program name>(25021)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x8061788 65011713
<unknown program name>(25021)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x805a9e0
Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
plasma(25021): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasma path = <unknown> pid = 25022
sock_file=/home/ron/.kde4/socket-sisko/kdeinit4__0
ron@sisko:~$ <unknown program name>(25060)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x8061788 65011713
<unknown program name>(25060)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x805a9e0
plasma(25060): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)"

[mfabry]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

I had similar problem like rbetzen . After login I got some message about plasma crash then the screen turned black (I could still see a cursor though). Removing .kde4 directory helped.

[partha]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

Hmmm.....

On my system, the fix at least allowed me to log in to kde4, however plasma crashes as soon as it loads. I'll have to look at the error messages and see what I can post here later.

........

Ok here's what I'm getting. Anyone else seeing this?

<unknown program name>(25021)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x8061788 65011713
<unknown program name>(25021)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x805a9e0
Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
plasma(25021): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasma path = <unknown> pid = 25022
sock_file=/home/ron/.kde4/socket-sisko/kdeinit4__0
ron@sisko:~$ <unknown program name>(25060)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x8061788 65011713
<unknown program name>(25060)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x805a9e0
plasma(25060): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)"

I had the same problem. Had to remove plasmarc and plasma-appletrc from ~/.kde4/share/config. However, as you reckon, this would remove all plasma related configuration.

And also, the note plasmoid seems to crash plasma in my system.

[blackpaw]

Re: Conflicted Upgrade from KDE 4.1 beta 2 to RC1

And we're back - upgrade & update, and kdepim is fixed.