upgrade to kde4.2, after login the screen stays blank

[drnde]

Jesterday i upgraded my system to kde 4.2, following the instructions on kubuntu.org.
After logout i restarted X, and since then my screen stays blank after the login screen,
I mean it's not black, the login screen wallpaper, background or whatever is still visible
just the desktop does not appear...

Before the update i had to remove the package kde-workspace-data and another
called something like plasmoid plugins i think, because some of their files couldn't
been overwritten ( thats what synaptic told me ). I checked from the console and
kde-workspace-data 4.1.2 is installed, so i suppose that the plasmoid package is installed too.


Does someone have a clue ?

[Teunis]

Re: upgrade to kde4.2, after login the screen stays blank

You could try to open a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 and run:

apt-get install -f

Or try to start up in the recovery mode and run the same.

This should check problems in the install and repair them.

Edit:
I was just looking at this page:
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/kde-4.2

And noticed No. 4: Old Plasma packages are not compatible with KDE 4.2, you should uninstall any plasmoids.

You might have to uninstall these from the command line.

[drnde]

Re: upgrade to kde4.2, after login the screen stays blank

apt-get install -f

was the first thing i tried, everything looks fine
there are no broken dependencies also...
the upgrade went smooth, after i removed the above
mentioned packages...

I'm pretty new to kde4, just installed 8.10 a couple of days ago...
Could you tell me where to find a list of the plasmoids i have to
remove, i didn't add any new ones, atleast i think so...

edit: just checked for the old plasmoid packages and all
plasmoid-* packages are already removed, the problem has to
be something else...

[gotaug]

Re: upgrade to kde4.2, after login the screen stays blank


This happened to me.

I chose recovery mode in the GRUB boot menu.

Then I chose the DPKG option in the next menu.

Then I said Y to everything it asked me.

When it was done I rebooted and everything was fine and I had KDE 4.2!

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