On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 14:34:12 +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > It happened to me upgrading my first kde desktop today, which resulted > in a completely not working KDE enviroment: after logging in, a scrambled > desktop background appeared and nothing else. Of course, I did > a whole upgrading, because that (multi-user) desktop > had many different desktop environments installed and I did not > put on hold kde 3.5 packages, because it was pointless for me. > > I would add a big WARNING for users at upgrading time about that. > I got a working environment by installing 'kde-full' after completing the whole > dist upgrade. Maybe, this is not evidenti enough by current release notes, I > would stress the following concepts: > > - The KDE env will be *ruined and unusable* just after a plain > dist-upgrade. > - Installing kde-full or kde-standard is *mandatory* and > it should happen just after upgrading. > I'm afraid I'm a bit concerned about this metapackage stuff. Why weren't the metapackages from lenny kept around to help upgrades, with kde and kde-core depending e.g. on the new kde-standard metapackage? Francesco, care to share details of your upgrade? What packages were installed pre-upgrade, log from apt, …? Cheers, Julien
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