Latest updates for 12.10

[Paul Kaplan]

I had some problems on upgrading and wound up with a defective GUI. I went to a console and did an update and was told to apt-get --configure -a, which made a number of changes, and then did another update and upgrade which made some more changes. Things seem to be fine now. 
Paul 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Ridley" <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> 
To: "Kubuntu user technical support" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 6:18:08 PM 
Subject: Re: Latest updates for 12.10 

On 10/26/2012 11:54 PM, Nigel Ridley wrote: 
> I just did an apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. There was a whole bunch of KDE 
> stuff and after the upgrade, and logging out and back in again, all my desktop settings vanished! 
> I was left with a brand new desktop as if I had just done a clean install (or renamed my .kde 
> directory). 
> 
> WARNING: Make a backup of your .kde directory before doing the update/upgrade. 
> I now have to rebuild my desktop back to the way I had it before :-( 
> 
> Nigel 
> 

Something else weird: before I logged out after the upgrade, I had several apps running. After 
logging back in and getting a brand new desktop :-( all my previous running apps were still 
running but not on the desktop - I mean could see them as running processes under 'System 
Activity' (Ctrl + Esc) but not accessible on the desktop. I had to 'kill' them in the end as I 
was getting window titles with the app name plus a number 2 (meaning it was the second instance 
of said running app). 

I'm not sure what is going on but maybe better to wait a while before doing any updates/upgrades. 

Nigel 


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