upgrading to ibex, get "must kill kdesktop_lock manually"

[Nickotym]

I started upgrading to Ibex from Hardy last night before bed. When I went to bed it was downloading files still. This morning when I went to check on it I get the dreaded "must kill kdesktop_lock manually" message. I have no way of knowing where it is in the upgrade process as I can't get out of the screensaver.

How can I get around this? Will it be safe to do a hard shutdown? Is there a way to get to a terminal and do xkill?

[Nickotym]

Re: upgrading to ibex, get "must kill kdesktop_lock manually"

Did a hard shutdown, was not happy, i get an error that it can't get beyond when starting up Kubuntu now, will have to put more info down later.

[Nickotym]

Re: upgrading to ibex, get "must kill kdesktop_lock manually"

had to use recovery from the older version of kernel to access, did dpkg repair and that solved it. Running 8.10 w/o trouble.