Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
Hi Remco,
there are easier ways to determine that. For example you can run:
apt install $( dpkg -l | grep 5.21.5 | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' )
This command will try to update every installed package in version
5.21.5 (not totally bulletproof I admit).
If a package cannot be updated, e.g. because no newer version is
available, then this will be printed explicitly. So when you run this
command and it says that certain packages are already in the newest
version, then you know that the update is not complete.
It can happen though that it finds a package that does not belong to
Plasma, but this can be checked easily and happens only rarely.
Try to run the command with 5.23.0 and it should list a lot of packages
that are already in its newest version.
--
Med vänliga hälsningar
Patrick Franz
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:30:16 +0200 "F.W. Dekker" wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:47:18 +0200 Patrick Franz > wrote: > > When you upgrade Plasma packages, be sure to always upgrade the entire > > stack at once. > > That makes sense to me, but I'm not sure how I can check from `apt`'s > output whether the entire stack can be upgraded. Are there any packages > I should be looking out for? Or more specifically: What should I be > looking out for when I see that there's an update for > libkdecorations2-5v5 or a similar package in the future? > Today I found this page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=debian-qt-kde%40lists.debian.org I got there through clicking on the maintainer link in the top left on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/kdecoration That page has a huge table with all the things maintained by the QT/KDE maintainers. On there I searched for "5.21" and at the moment the only package still on that version is ksysguard. But it's being removed in favour of plasma-systemmonitor. I don't think you can see whether all KDE packages are being updated at the same time through apt. Which is really a shame because it's not the first time something broke because of a partial KDE update for me. To add to the bug report itself, there is nothing left on 5.21 according to that page, so I updated everything. First installed the "bad" version with dpkg from the apt cache so apt doesn't want me to fix the broken install, and then a normal (dist-)upgrade (after an update). Working fine for me and everything is in working condition again. -- Kind regards, Remco Lanting
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 10:30:16 +0200 "F.W. Dekker" wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:47:18 +0200 Patrick Franz > wrote: > > When you upgrade Plasma packages, be sure to always upgrade the entire > > stack at once. > > That makes sense to me, but I'm not sure how I can check from `apt`'s > output whether the entire stack can be upgraded. Are there any packages > I should be looking out for? Or more specifically: What should I be > looking out for when I see that there's an update for > libkdecorations2-5v5 or a similar package in the future? > > Kind regards, > > F.W. Dekker > What I do is look at what packages are being installed. In the meanwhile, apt continues to report a broken package, which it then wants fixed before it will allow a full-upgrade with the latest updates. After that I need to re-break the package by reinstalling the older libkdedecorations.
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
Hi Patrick, On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 21:47:18 +0200 Patrick Franz wrote: > When you upgrade Plasma packages, be sure to always upgrade the entire > stack at once. That makes sense to me, but I'm not sure how I can check from `apt`'s output whether the entire stack can be upgraded. Are there any packages I should be looking out for? Or more specifically: What should I be looking out for when I see that there's an update for libkdecorations2-5v5 or a similar package in the future? Kind regards, F.W. Dekker
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
Hello Bob, On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:33:47 +0800 Bob Wong wrote: Hello, I am unable to downgrade the kdecoration, if I try to downgrade kdecoration, the apt will remove the whole kde desktop. So the only choice for me is to upgrade. When will the new version of the kdecoration be available in bookworm? As for now I can only use other desktop environment. It's really inconvenient. Unfortunately Patrick's link got line wrapped. His link should read: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/kdecoration/4%3A5.21.5-2/ And the amd64 package would be: https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20210817T204926Z/pool/main/k/kdecoration/libkdecorations2-5v5_5.21.5-2_amd64.deb If you download this and install it by following command, it should just downgrade this single package: dpkg -i libkdecorations2-5v5_5.21.5-2_amd64.deb Kind regards, Bernhard
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
Hi Jeroen, if you are using Testing, you have an incomplete Plasma installation. When you upgrade Plasma packages, be sure to always upgrade the entire stack at once. We've uploaded a fix which should prevent this issue in the future. In the meantime, you can downgrade kdecoration to 5.21.5 by grabbing the debs from here: https://snapshot.debian.org/package/kdecoration/ 4%3A5.21.5-2/ -- Med vänliga hälsningar Patrick Franz
Bug#996726: libkdecorations2-5v5 freeze KDE on login, general protection fault
Package: libkdecorations2-5v5 Version: 4:5.23.0-2 After upgrade from version 4:5.21.5-2, after login the KDE session freezes completly. The mouse pointer still moves, but the spinning circle stops. From the journalctl: Oct 17 20:45:37 kernel: traps :kde5[4854] general protection fault ip:7f5eb66ed510 sp:7ffdef9478d0 error 0 in libkdecorations2.so.5.23.0[7f5eb66df000+f000] Debian/testing SMP Debian 5.14.9-2 Greetings, Jeroen
