On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Valorie Zimmerman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Jonathan Riddell <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:01:35AM -0700, Valorie Zimmerman wrote: >>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 1:21 AM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > sudo apt install kubuntu-plasma5-desktop >>> > >>> > maybe we should put a kubuntu-desktop into the ppa to force migrate to >>> > kubuntu-plasma5-desktop. alas, that only helps if one had >>> > kubuntu-desktop installed anyway. >>> >>> So you are saying I should have done this rather than adding the >>> staging PPA? If so, entirely my mistake. If we want people testing >>> kubuntu-plasma5-desktop rather than installing Plasma5 from the ISO, >>> we should say so in our messaging, such as >>> http://www.kubuntu.org/news/1410-beta-2 >> >> We do say so on the announce page >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/Beta2/Kubuntu >> but this which isn't too well aligned to the kubuntu.org news item in terms >> of content, >> I was hoping the new website would fix that but I've not heard any status on >> that in a >> while :( >> >> Jonathan > > Odd thing - even once I added the ppa, kubuntu-plasma5-desktop was > reported as non-existant. However, once I did update & dist-upgrade, > it did sort of install. > > But then apt when into a spin, telling me some stuff needed to be > removed, and more updates needed installing, but it couldn't seem to > upgrade them or remove the old files; just kept repeating itself. > > So I shut down (which didn't work in plasma; did `sudo shutdown now` > in console and still had to use the power button....) and started up > again, and was never logged into KDE after I put in my password. > > In the console, when I tried to login, I got: > [ 171.171303] systemd-logind[976]: Failed to start unit > user@1000-service: Unknown unit: user@1000 > [ 171.171303] systemd-logind[976]: Failed to start user service: > Unknown unit: [email protected] > > Interesting? > > The atom netbook is running 14.10 with no problem, but I hesitate to > try Plasma 5 on it now. > > Valorie
Final update on this: I was able to log in via console tonight, and attempt one more fix. Rather than update && dist-upgrade, I did `sudo apt full-upgrade` which did the trick. I found this here: https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Packages Probably would have saved me some time. I still got the systemd warnings but ignored them. I also was able to get autoclean to work. However, the laptop never loads plasma. In fact, what I see is the old wallpaper. I tried `kquitapp5 plasmashell && plasmashell` in a console: "Application plasmashell could not be found using service org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication." kubuntu-plasma5-desktop is installed; apt-get install -f reports nothing to be installed. I was out of ideas, when kbroulik suggested: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get install plasma-workspace plasma-desktop after all that, I did a `full-upgrade` again, and this time it reported nothing held back. So perhaps we have a packaging problem? Because plasma-workspace and plasma-desktop did the trick; I now have Plasma 5. When I tried to load Konversation, which is in the default menu, it crashed (plasma did). Now I've installed it via the console, weeeeee! Time for sleep, but at least I can now test! Valorie -- http://about.me/valoriez -- kubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
