On Wednesday 24 June 2015 13:45:53 Weaver wrote: > On 2015-06-24 21:21, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 June 2015 10:23:41 Gary Dale wrote: > >> I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly > >> until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong. > >> > >> The first thing I noticed was that it complained when trying to start > >> up > >> KDE. It said the kde-plasma-desktop was invalid (or similar) and > >> switched me into the default Gnome desktop. > >> > >> Interestingly, I still had konsole so I used that to try to install > >> task-kde-desktop. That failed with dependency errors so I tried > >> lower-level kde packages and eventually got only a half-dozen packages > >> that needed installing for kde-standard. Once I installed them and > >> kde-standard, I was able to install the full task. > >> > >> Except I couldn't start konsole or icedove when I rebooted and > >> selected > >> kde as the desktop. Iceweasel started OK as did gkrellm (two other > >> things on my desktop session). > >> > >> Trying the same tactic as before, I eventually got to trying to > >> install > >> libgnutls-deb0-28. When I ask apt-get to install it however, it > >> decides > >> it needs to remove pretty much everything kde and libreoffice - 390 > >> packages in all. > >> > >> Any advice on how I should proceed other than abandoning kde? > > > > The usual Stretch advice? Wait a few days, then try again? And then > > another > > few days, and then try again? > > > > If necessary, wait a few weeks, really zap everything KDE, and install > > KDE > > afresh? > > > > Lisi > > I'm running Stretch on an Acer Travelmate 6593 with a full KDE desktop, > and Gnome desktop on a Dell Optiplex 980. No trouble with either. I > don't run 'dist-upgrade' any longer. It's always 'safe-upgrade'. I have > no problems with that. I haven't had any problems with an unstable > install for years, but perhaps I'm lucky.
AND you only run safe-upgrade!! Lisi > Cheers! > > Weaver. > > -- > "It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its > government." > -- Thomas Paine > > Registered Linux User: 554515 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
