author=dibl link=topic=5719.msg47205#msg47205 date=1441464152]
I guess I will have to do the experiment on another hardware platform to sort that out.
OK, a second d-u experience to report, on my main desktop rig. This one was longer and considerably more difficult, but in the end it is fully upgraded and running a Plasma 5 desktop with no apparent problems. Here are the highlights:
- at a point very early in the process the configuration of an updated new udev package hung with a "connection timed out" error. I lost a lot of time trying different apt and dpkg commands to make it proceed before I discovered that systemctl could not tell me anything about my system, nor could it shut my system down. So there was a major systemd malfunction and there was no way to proceed except to press the reset button, boot a live USB stick and run gparted to check my filesystems, and try a reboot. It came up all the way to a Plasma 5 desktop which was fairly amazing. I went back to tty1 and continued the d-u.
- later in the d-u after the big removals, kde-standard, dolphin, and plasma-desktop refused to install or update. It took a lot dependency chasing and comparisons to my updated Dell laptop to figure out that phonon4qt5 was at the heart of the problem. I installed phonon4qt5-backend-gstreamer and then the others installed including libreoffice. phonon4qt5-backend-vlc appears to be uninstallable at this moment. Also don't forget to install systemsettings -- it disappeared during the process and had to be reinstalled.
- the final reboot brought me to a clean default Plasma 5 breeze desktop. At first I thought was a different behavior than I had on the laptop, but then I realized I had never customized the desktop on the laptop. Probably it overwrote the old desktop and I did not notice a difference. But my big rig was highly customized with a slideshow that used webcam images and a desktop cube and login music, so all that has to be redone.
Here are the system specs for this one:
System: Host: Hibiscus Kernel: 4.1.6-towo.1-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.2.1)
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5 (Qt 5.4.2)
Distro: siduction 14.1.0 Indian Summer - kde - (201411230337)
Machine: System: ASUS product: All Series
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z87-WS v: Rev 1.xx
Bios: American Megatrends v: 2004 date: 06/05/2014
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7-4770 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 28022
clock speeds: max: 3900 MHz 1: 3360 MHz 2: 3399 MHz 3: 3362 MHz 4: 3601 MHz
5: 3402 MHz 6: 3401 MHz 7: 3400 MHz 8: 3476 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] bus-ID: 05:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.17.2 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1200@59.88hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 346.82 Direct Rendering: Yes
Network: Card-1: Intel I210 Gigabit Network Connection
driver: igb v: 5.2.15-k port: d000 bus-ID: 07:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Card-2: Intel I210 Gigabit Network Connection
driver: igb v: 5.2.15-k port: a000 bus-ID: 0a:00.0
IF: eth1 state: down mac: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Drives: HDD Total Size: 3120.7GB (25.4% used) ID-1: model: OCZ
ID-2: model: OCZ ID-3: model: WDC_WD1001FALS
ID-4: model: WDC_WD1000DHTZ ID-5: model: WDC_WD1000DHTZ
Info: Processes: 267 Uptime: 1:02 Memory: 2257.6/7927.6MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.2.1
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421) inxi: 2.2.28 Note that the libstdc++6 transition is only showing 30% complete, so further breakages are likely.
