** Description changed: 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? + + Problem resolved. + + Issue was that I had the sources file: + + deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-members-kde4/ppa/ubuntu intrepid + main + + enabled but not the backports. This ended up attempting an upgrade to + kde 4.2, which failed and summarily axed my system. I added the backport + repositories by uncommenting them in sources.list and also added: + + deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-experimental/ppa/ubuntu intrepid + main + + as well as it's gpg key. This allowed me to run a sudo apt-get update, + and install kubuntu-desktop, thereby completing the upgrade to kde 4.2 + (didn't want to go there, but I may as well get something out of this + mess.) + + I followed the instructions from this site to do so: + + http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/archive/index.php/t-2279078.html + + I don't believe all the steps there are necessary, but it doesn't hurt + to follow them. At worst you're uninstalling some packages and then just + reinstalling them. + + I've found a lot of people online who are having this problem, I'll see + if I can point them to the solution.
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