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Offline Nathan_S

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[SOLVED]Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« on: November 09, 2012, 04:59:02 PM »
Tried upgrading the kde desktop as suggested in one of the threads. after reboot instead of entering the desktop displays, a black screen and 2 terminal screens appear :'( - what to do ???
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Re: Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2012, 05:04:55 PM »

The GUI runs ontop of a program called X.
What you are seeing usually happens when X starts but a desktop environment,KDE in your case, failed to start.

A broken KDE installation from a broken update is probably a cause.

On one of the terminals,type "synaptic" and start up synaptic and then search for and reinstall "task-kde-minimal" or a package that sounds like that, i cant remember its exact name at the moment.
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Re: Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2012, 05:25:01 PM »
Will try, as currently write from live cd, Thanks :)
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Re: Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2012, 05:54:12 PM »
 :) Thanks. Worked partially, Meaning System is not dead, but need to resolve widget and desktop appearance issues.
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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2012, 06:04:53 PM »

glad you got it solved.

This kind of things usually does not happen and its surprising it happen to you,you must be special  ;D

its hard to get an idea of where you are in linux knowledge.

Where do you put yourself on general knowledge in anything linux? a newbie,intermediate or expect?
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Re: Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2012, 12:58:55 AM »
intermediate. Because PCLos is so stable have some issues with terminal, as I almost never use it. Installed PCLos to several people including my 6 year old son. Mainly an Hardware freak (Record of several Hundreds of computers over a period of 5 years).
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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2012, 07:47:52 AM »
Also installed login screen manager which was missing. Final issues regarding the fact that glassified theme does not work are minor.
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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2012, 11:02:52 PM »
i've just had the same problem on my Vaio laptop.  Will try this as well.  Will check the correct syntax in Synaptic from my base computer before trying it on the laptop.

Have a great evening!  :)
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Re: [SOLVED]Upgrade couses terminal load and kills system
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2012, 08:57:06 AM »
It seems the syntax includes "kde4" instead of "kde".  i tried that and got dependency problems, so, as a last resort (i was already downloading 2012-08 on my big box), i tried Reload, Mark All, Apply and got about another 10 Meg. of updates - very strange.  i wonder why Synaptic hadn't pulled them down the first time.

That, however seemed to fix the problem.

Have a great morning!  :)
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