[EN] Dist Upgrade seems to have killed KDE

[bad_aptitude]

First dist upgrade since November and I can't past the login splash screen. Login and password prompts appear to work but the system hangs after I press "enter" I tried older kernels(from grub) and they also won't let me get past the login splash screen. Running Lenovo IdeaPad 3 with Intel graphics.
Is there some way to recover from this or do I need a fresh install?

[uxman]

This did bite me too, but it was may own fault! Since yesterday the "Upgrade Warning Section" of this forum is the startpage of my browser

[hendrikL]

Maybe you can recover it.

Take a look to /var/log/apt/history.log to see what was removed and not replaced by a newer version.

That is what I would do first before installing new, there are other log files to check out too.

On the other hand, a fresh installation is kind of cleaning up, isn't it (-; ?

And one word, since Nov is a long time for a rolling distribution, especially debian sid/unstable.

[bad_aptitude]

Apt dist-upgrade showed “0” files too be removed, so I was looking forward to smooth sailing. I did resize my home partition a few months ago so maybe KDE has an arcane way of locating disk partitions.

[hendrikL]

Before the d-u there where no problems after rezising the /home partition?

[devil]

Not knowing what the problem is, there is one thing to try: Boot to a terminal and try to start with

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startx
or 

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kstart5 plasmashell