Upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04 LTS had issues

[Leroy Tennison]

On 08/07/2016 03:31 PM, Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Sunday, 7 August 2016 20:28:12 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
>> Aaron Honeycutt wrote:
>>> Any upgrade can be bumpy, ideal it would have no issues. Ubuntu and
>>> the other flavors also made the move to systemd from upstart so they
>>> could have similar issues but we also moved from KDM to SDDM as well
>>> so it's not getting enabled as a service in systemd.
>> KDM was replaced by lightdm during the upgrade 12.04 -> 14.04 IIRC, so
>> your use of KDM was not a standard situation. OTOH KDM was still
>> available for 14.04, so the upgrade script should have handled it
>> gracefully IMHO.
>>
>> But to me it looks a bit strange that sddm isn't enabled automatically.
>> I haven't seen that with the two upgrades I made in December. Maybe that
>> is a new bug?
> I did a similar upgrade today from 14.04 to 16.04 and the first question asked
> after it downloaded the packages was what DM did I want to use lightdm or
> sddm. I replied sddm, but it was never installed and I therefore had a blank
> screen instead of a DM.
>
OK, so it's not just me, I'll have to find time to bug it if it isn't 
already.