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 KDE-related packages upgraded today
(others not related to KDE/Qt/KF5/etc were removed to the best of my ability):
kde-cli-tools kde-cli-tools-data kde-config-cron kde-config-sddm
kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kded5 kdenetwork-filesharing kdesdk-scripts
kdesdk-thumbnailers kdevelop kdevelop-data kdevplatform8-libs libreoffice-kde
python-kde4 qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop qml-module-org-kde-extensionplugin
qml-module-org-kde-games-core qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons
qml-module-org-kde-kio qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols
qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem
baloo-kf5 kdegames-card-data-kf5 libkf5activities5 libkf5baloo5
libkf5balooengine5 libkf5baloowidgets-bin libkf5baloowidgets5
libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5
libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5
libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5declarative-data
libkf5declarative5 libkf5emoticons-bin libkf5emoticons-data libkf5emoticons5
libkf5globalaccel-bin libkf5globalaccel-data libkf5globalaccel5
libkf5globalaccelprivate5 libkf5iconthemes-bin libkf5iconthemes-data
libkf5iconthemes5 libkf5kcmutils-data libkf5kcmutils5 libkf5kdegamesprivate1
libkf5kdelibs4support-data libkf5kdelibs4support5 libkf5khtml-bin
libkf5khtml-data libkf5khtml5 libkf5kiocore5 libkf5kiofilewidgets5
libkf5kiontlm5 libkf5kiowidgets5 libkf5krosscore5 libkf5krossui5
libkf5newstuff-data libkf5newstuff5 libkf5notifications-data
libkf5notifications5 libkf5notifyconfig-data libkf5notifyconfig5
libkf5package-data libkf5package5 libkf5parts-data libkf5parts-plugins
libkf5parts5 libkf5people-data libkf5people5 libkf5peoplebackend5
libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5quickaddons5 libkf5service-bin libkf5service-data
libkf5service5 libkf5style5 libkf5su-bin libkf5su-data libkf5su5
libkf5sysguard-bin libkf5sysguard-data libkf5texteditor5 libkf5textwidgets-data
libkf5textwidgets5 libkf5wallet-bin libkf5wallet-data libkf5wallet5
libkf5webkit5 libkf5xmlgui-bin libkf5xmlgui-data libkf5xmlgui5
libkf5xmlrpcclient-data libkf5xmlrpcclient5 qtdeclarative5-kf5declarative
plasma-pa libpoppler-qt4-4 libpoppler-qt5-1 libqt4-dbus libqt4-declarative
libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support
libqt4-script libqt4-scripttools libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite
libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtdbus4
libqtgui4 python-qt4 python-qt4-dbus python-qt4-sql python3-pyqt4 qtcore4-l10n
frameworkintegration
After the dist-upgrade I ran apt-get autoremove as I usually do. The following
packages were listed. It seemed strange but I went ahead anyway:
The following packages will be REMOVED:
accountsservice bluedevil breeze breeze-cursor-theme breeze-icon-theme
fonts-oxygen ieee-data kde-config-sddm kde-style-breeze kde-style-breeze-qt4
kde-style-oxygen-qt5 kde-style-qtcurve-qt4 kde-style-qtcurve-qt5 khotkeys
khotkeys-data kinfocenter kmenuedit kscreen ksysguard ksysguard-data ksysguardd
kwin-style-breeze kwin-wayland kwin-wayland-backend-drm kwrited
libaccountsservice0 libanalitza5abi1 libanalitzagui5abi1 libanalitzaplot5abi1
libappstreamqt1 libavcodec-ffmpeg56 libavformat-ffmpeg56 libavresample-ffmpeg2
libavutil-ffmpeg54 libcolamd2.9.1 libgif4 libkf5activitiesexperimentalstats1
libkf5bluezqt-data libkf5bluezqt6 libkf5emoticons-bin libkf5emoticons-data
libkf5emoticons5 libkf5kdegames6 libkf5people-data libkf5people5
libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkf5style5 libkf5sysguard-bin
libkfontinst5 libkfontinstui5 libksignalplotter7 libokularcore6
liboxygenstyle5-5 liboxygenstyleconfig5-5 libpackagekitqt5-0 libpoppler57
libpostproc-ffmpeg53 libpowerdevilcore2 libpowerdevilui5 libqtcurve-utils2
libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libsuitesparseconfig4.4.6 libswresample-ffmpeg1
libswscale-ffmpeg3 libxcb-record0 muon-discover muon-notifier muon-updater
oxygen-sounds plasma-desktop-data plasma-discover plasma-discover-common
plasma-discover-private plasma-discover-updater powerdevil powerdevil-data
python3-pycurl python3-pyqt5 python3-software-properties
qml-module-org-kde-bluezqt qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel
qml-module-qt-labs-settings qml-module-qtquick-controls-styles-breeze
qtdeclarative5-kf5declarative sni-qt software-properties-common
software-properties-kde systemsettings unattended-upgrades user-manager
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 92 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 198 MB disk space will be freed.
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
on Debian Testing using KDE for almost 3 years without any major issue. Is there
a way to restore what I previously had, or is there any advice regarding this?
Thank you.
Allen J
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