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    How to Fix a broken upgrade? <SOLVED>

    This weekend I upgraded the desktop to KDE 4.5.4. Once all the updates were downloaded and installed, it wanted to reboot. I simply shut the computer down and left it for a few days.

    Today I come back to it and power back on. Once I type in my user/pass, I get the blue plasma screen, and that's it. No hard drive icon, nothing.

    I let it sit for a bit, then do a ALT-PRT SCRN REISUB, and reboot.

    I log back in again, and still same plasma screen and nothing else.

    ALT-PRT SCRN REISUB, reboot, then enter recovery mode.

    First I select normal boot, thinking the recovery process might fix it. Negative.

    ALT-PRT SCRN REISUB, reboot, recovery mode, select "Fix broken packages".

    A good 30+ packages are selected for download, so I apt-get it all, and system informs me it needs a restart.

    sudo INIT 6, user/pass and still same screen and nothing else.

    go back to recovery mode, try to see if any packages were missed, 0 found.

    now I still get the same screen, with nothing else, and I'm out of ideas.

    Suggestions??



    #2
    Re: How to Fix a broken upgrade?

    Does a reboot into the previous kernel result in success?
    Windows no longer obstructs my view.
    Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
    "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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      #3
      Re: How to Fix a broken upgrade?


      Try this:
      Go to a console login and type
      Code:
      sudo apt-get install plasma-desktop
      Then reboot

      Any help?

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        #4
        Re: How to Fix a broken upgrade?

        @Snowhog - I only have one kernel to boot into.

        @The Liquidator - I'll try that tonight and report back.

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          #5
          Re: How to Fix a broken upgrade?

          You can also use the 2nd menu option (recovery) and boot into a root Console with a network connection. Then issue
          apt-get -f install
          dpkg --configure -a
          repeatedly until both come back with no errors or actions.
          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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            #6
            Re: How to Fix a broken upgrade?

            The Liquidator's suggestion worked, I'm back in! Thanks to all for the advice.

            And thanks to greygeek also, I now remember you making you suggestion a while back when another update went haywire.

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