Re: Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

Hi Holger, Sorry this reply is a bit late but I wanted to thank you for taking the time to write all that out for me. I found it to be very useful. I have saved your advice on my disk and will refer to it in the future. Thanks again, Allen

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

No need to Cc me. Thanks. On Donnerstag, 9. Juni 2016 17:41:39 CEST you wrote: > Martin, Hi Allen, > Because I had simply dist-upgrade and auto-remove without intending to > uninstall any major components, I thought this might be an issue to address > with the maintainers, but I understand your

Re: Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

Martin, Because I had simply dist-upgrade and auto-remove without intending to uninstall any major components, I thought this might be an issue to address with the maintainers, but I understand your points. Thank you very much for the advice. I did what you suggested and everything seems to

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

This morning I could upgrade testing to plasma-5.6 without apt wanting to uninstall essential parts. Thanks to all involved! Regards, Sander On Sunday 05 June 2016 19:51:08 Allen James wrote: > Dear maintainers, > > I use Debian Testing. Before today, my previous dist-upgrade was on May 28, >

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

On 06/05/2016 08:00 PM, Allen James wrote: Dear maintainers, I use Debian Testing. Before today, my previous dist-upgrade was on May 28, at which points all packages were up to date and KDE 5.4 was running smoothly. Today (June 5) I again dist-upgrade my laptop and now KDE is very broken. The

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

On 06/05/2016 08:00 PM, Allen James wrote: Dear maintainers, I use Debian Testing. Before today, my previous dist-upgrade was on May 28, at which points all packages were up to date and KDE 5.4 was running smoothly. Today (June 5) I again dist-upgrade my laptop and now KDE is very broken. The

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

On Sonntag, 5. Juni 2016 19:51:08 CEST Allen James wrote: > Dear maintainers, Allen, this is mostly a user support issue, maintainers can not prevent you from breaking the system. Also it is no KDE catastrophe. It is a "I remove a ton of packages and expect things still to work" catastrophe.

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 09:01:12AM +0200, Holger Schramm wrote: > First i would reinstall all autoremoved packages especially the libkf5* > ones and the sddm as mentioned before. I don't think one should ever install library packages manually, otherwise there are wrong dependencies listed

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

Am 06.06.2016 um 04:51 schrieb Allen James: > > Now, after reboot, Plasma does not start ("Plasma Cannot Start. All shell > packages missing."), I cannot connect to the internet, there is no krunner, > etc, > basically huge problems. Concerned about this because I had maintained my > laptop >

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

In your list I spotted sddm package to be removed. You better install this first, as this provides the login manager. Luc Op 6 jun. 2016 07:15 schreef "Luc Castermans" : > I did safe-upgrade yesterday, from sid. All works nicely. Many others > reported such also here. I

Re: KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

I did safe-upgrade yesterday, from sid. All works nicely. Many others reported such also here. I suggest you carefully check if required packages are installed. Luc Op 6 jun. 2016 04:59 schreef "Allen James" : > Dear maintainers, > > I use Debian Testing. Before today, my

KDE catastrophe after June 5 dist-upgrade

Dear maintainers, I use Debian Testing. Before today, my previous dist-upgrade was on May 28, at which points all packages were up to date and KDE 5.4 was running smoothly. Today (June 5) I again dist-upgrade my laptop and now KDE is very broken. The following is a list of many of the