[Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-04 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Seveas: I expect that the kubuntu people do want to support and give clean upgrades for kde 3.5.4 on kubuntu.org -- edgy. After all, we do the sources for them too. -- Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present https://launchpad.net/bugs/63694 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-04 Thread Mitch Golden
I am retrying this now and will do it with apt-get as requested. Further research has indicated that it appears that I had not installed easyubuntu yet before I did the upgrade. If I am unable to reproduce I will try it with easyubuntu. One point is that I am not suggesting support for

[Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-04 Thread Mitch Golden
OK, I have tried this again and have been able to pinpoint a bit better what happened. First of all, I installed from the Dapper CD. Then, I added KDE3.5.4 as described in the link above. (I needed to edit xorg.conf as well, but that's a separate bug.) I rebooted, and then used adept to get

Re: [Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-04 Thread Mitch Golden
Yep, the machine is toast. When I shut down, I see what I guess is a test screen (with cirles and boxes, colors look wrong). When it tries to reboot, I get nothing. I can't switch to the text consoles using Ctl-Alt-F1 etc. -- Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

[Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-03 Thread Sarah Hobbs
we'd really need the output from sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get dist-upgrade to help. or by running update-manager -d, if you still have gnome installed. -- Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present https://launchpad.net/bugs/63694 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 63694] Re: Upgrading from dapper to edgy fails if KDE 3.5.4 is present

2006-10-03 Thread Mitch Golden
I will try this again. I am not 100% sure I had easyubuntu on the machine (95% sure). However, I would recommend not rejecting this bug because aside from the easyubuntu part, what I did was in every case precisely what was recommended on the ubuntu/kubuntu sites. The package manager was unable