KDE 4.7

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Sonntag 31 Juli 2011, 22:50:17, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 30/07/11 17:16, O. Sinclair wrote:
> > On 28/07/2011 22:38, Clay Weber wrote:
> >> On Thursday, July 28, 2011 08:43:01 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> >>> As I guess most of us know KDE 4.7 has been released. Anyone knows
> >>> if/when it comes to Kubuntu Natty/Maverick?
> >>> 
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Sinclair
> >>> 
> >>   4.7 just made it into Oneiric, we may see it in natty as soon as
> >> 
> >> today. I
> >> can't get on irc here at work so I can't check in at #kubuntu-devel
> >> to see the
> >> progress. It will be announced at kubuntu.org of course :D
> >> 
> >> I doubt packages will be made for maverick
> > 
> > It has been published in the Backports repos for Natty today
> 
> After one of the other threads in this mail supplying the ppa to find
> kde 4.7, I have upgraded using the kde-full metapackage, but I now have
> a problem in that when I boot into kde I get the login music played but
> the screen stays black.
> I am using gdm as my display manager as I have found that unity is
> unbootable from kdm, plus I am also using the nvidia proprietary video
> driver, as nouveau has never been acceptable on my system.
> How do I find out what the problem is?

That suggests that plasma-desktop didn't start, either because it was 
uninstalled during the upgrade or because it crashed.
The easiest way to find out what is going on is to switch to a tty
(Ctrl-Alt-F2), executing the command "export DISPLAY=:0" and then "plasma-
desktop". If it complains about not finding the command, it got uninstalled 
(execute "apt-get install plasma-desktop). If it crashes, an update might work 
(there was a crash that was fixed yesterday).

  --Reinhold