On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, Installing 14.10 beta was easy, although my son did the > install on my big test laptop because he set up the SSD/HD system in > the first place. However, upon doing the first update && dist-upgrade, > then restarting, I notice that there were a few dead icons, and > unresponsive application windows. > > But I figured I'd probably kill it with Plasma 5 anyway, so what the > heck. Added the PPA: `sudo apt-add-repository > ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next-staging` then `sudo apt-get update && sudo > apt-get dist-upgrade`, and restarted. However, even though there were > no error messages in yakuake, there was no Plasma 5 desktop to log > into. Instead, there was a Plasma 4 desktop in even worse shape: no > networking. > > Hopefully I can purge the PPA in a console, but I doubt that will > bring back network-manager. The reason I think it's gone is that there > is no applet in the systray.
I got networking working again, but can't seem to get the applet re-installed. So I was able to fix the desktop again, back to 14.10 pristine, I hope. I'll test plasma5 as a liveUSB, I guess, as soon as I find some bigger USB drives! Valorie PS: If there are logs I can consult to help interested folks figure out what's wrong, just tell me what you want. -v -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
