Occasional Thoughts

As last time I wanted to perform a hot upgrade, so I launched adept_manager --dist-upgrade just like described on the Kubuntu pages and let my computer downloading and installing the updated packages during night (I just have a DSL 768k connection). This morning I wanted to see who far it got and as expected KDE 4 had locked the computer so I tried to logon. However the login screen hung up, when hitting enter.

My assumption is that the upgrade has replaced several KDE 4 files, which is the cause for being unable to unlock the screen.

So I had no choice but to reboot the computer hoping that the installer had proceeding far enough to have a bootable system at least. But I got disappointed. When the system tried to initialize the kernel logging daemon it failed to update some files as the file system was mounted read-only. I performed a file system check on the partitions, but all were reported to be clean.

Probably with some additional effort I would have been able to recover my system. But I decided to refrain from that as I never could be sure that I get a clean system again after such an unsuccessful upgrade. So I downloaded the Kubuntu installation CD and did a clean re-install, which is not a bad thing after all. I have much more space on my root partition now.

So in case you already upgraded to KDE 4 on Hardy Heron and want to upgrade from the Internet make sure to disable the automatic desktop locking.