KDE does not work after upgrade + hang to 9.1

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Thursday 05 November 2009 02:22:15 pm Jochen Wurster wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> i have upgraded my machine from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.1. The update ran
> without any error. After the update the reboot dialog appeared.
> Unfortunately my machine hanged at this moment. So i had to do a hard
> reboot. After the reboot it is no longer possible to login into kde. The
> login dialog appears. After the login only the background image is shown.
> 
> I think the update is not complete (because of the hard reboot). Do you
> have an ideas on how to complete the update.
> 
> 
> Bye Jochen
> 

Reboot your machine and log in to a recovery session.  I would use the one 
from your older kernel, not the 2.6.31-14-generic kernel, just to be safe.
When a box comes up, pick something like 'root shell with networking', I don't 
remember the exact wording.  You will drop to a terminal as root, be careful.  
Then type 
	apt-get update
let that finish and type
	apt-get dist-upgrade
When done, type
	shutdown -r
That will reboot your system nicely.  Hopefully that fixes the problem.

-- 
Alan

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