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,
> 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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