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Offline vayu

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Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« on: 2013/08/21, 20:21:27 »
I can't get to my desktop after DU yesterday.  I get to the normal KDM screen. After login my desktop flashes and the plasma desktop looks like no video effects are available, then I'm left with just my background image and a dialog box with "Kwin is unstable. It seems to have crashed several times in a row."  There was no error (EE) in Xorg.0.log.

From within init 3 I tried to reinstall nvidia drivers.  Then I tried to uninstall them.  The only difference is now xorg log has the error "failed to load module nv".  It didn't have that before I uninstalled nvidia.  I deleted the 20-nvidia.conf. Same thing. Now I'm lost.

What should be my next steps to figure this out?

Offline devil

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Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« Reply #1 on: 2013/08/21, 22:35:34 »
you might want to come to IRC to solve this quickly.
Other than that you should run:
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apt-get -f install to see if there is anything more to install. Also
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apt-get install kde-standard might indicate if you have missing kde packages.

greetz
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Offline musca

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Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« Reply #2 on: 2013/08/22, 00:03:13 »
Hello vayu,
no problems here on amd64 with towo`s kernel 3.10.4 and his patched nvidia-driver 325.08-0.siduction.1.

greetings
musca
β€žEs irrt der Mensch, solang er strebt.β€œ  (Goethe, Faust)

ghettoblaster

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Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« Reply #3 on: 2013/08/23, 16:50:16 »
also can't confirm any problems, same system specs as musca.
greetings
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Offline vayu

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RE: Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« Reply #4 on: 2013/08/23, 17:24:39 »
Turns out it was something in my .kde directory.  After tedious hours of copying files bit by bit, then relogging in, over and over, I never discovered exactly what file(s) it was, but I managed to copy enough over to have most of my system back the way it was.  Thanks much to the folks over in IRC, I would still be thinking it's video drivers.  (How do I mark this solved?)

Offline devil

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RE: Dist upgrade broke KDE for me
« Reply #5 on: 2013/08/23, 19:09:25 »
You would edit the first post of this theread, which I will do now.

greetz
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