Public bug reported:
Unfortunately my information on the issue is sparse due to the nature of
the bug. I'm running Kubuntu 8.10 and was on KDE4.1. I do believe (but
am not sure) that offending package was an upgrade to kde4.2. I used
adept to handle the update.
During the update I received a popup stating that kdm needs to shutdown
to update it, otherwise the changes would take effect next time kdm was
restarted. It did warn that all graphical processes would be shut down,
but it didn't click in my head that adept was a graphical process. :-)
So I chose to shutdown kdm for the update. This killed adept and broke
my kde install. It would boot to my graphical login, but kde was no
longer operational and would loop back to the login rather than load.
I went into recovery mode, ran dpkg and xfix. Unfortunately this had the
effect of totally uninstalling kde. I attempted to install kubuntu-
desktop but this also failed due to broken depends.
I understand this is entirely my fault (except for the broken depends)
but perhaps a good fix for this is a note in the popup for the upgrade
giving a warning explicitly about shutting down kdm while running adept
or synaptic?
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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kde hosed due to upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388066
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