Qt 5.9.1 Transition started

[towo]

Maybe it is the udisks2 problem?


systemctl status udisks2.service


is saying what?

[devil]

Since the problem started 3 days ago, that is not likely to be the cause.

[zash1958]

It was not the problem with udisks2 :-(

All I tried does not work. System remains unusable. ATM I am installing a fresh sid-patience on another HD and will restore my backup of the home Directory.

[finotti]

FWIW, in my aptosid box (I haven't updated my siduction laptop yet), after today's DU my KDE session did not have a panel and would hang.  It was the udisks2 problem posted here: https://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=6818.0

towo's solution (in that thread) fixed my problem.  (Thanks towo!)

(I'm posting it here because at first I thought it was a problem with the plasma/qt update.)

Just as a FYI.

[samoht]

I am in the same boat with zash1958. Installing the new udisks2 and libblockdev... packages did not repair the Plasma start. sddm-helper exited with 6.     Starting sddm-helper from command line gives no message. Any further hints?

PS
Moving these postings into a new thread ist recommended.

[finotti]

I cannot really offer any help, but maybe some logs might help out, like dmesg (after failing to start sddm or X) or "/var/log/Xorg.0.log". 

Also, to find it is a particular hardware/driver, maybe some output of inxi (maybe "inxi -v7" or something) might help identify a common device/driver for those having problems.

(BTW, my updated aptosid system, as well as my updated siducion running in qemu/kvm VM, do not have that problem.)

[piper]

Try

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apt install --reinstall sddm kde-config-sddm libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-mdraid2

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systemctl restart udisks2

Reboot

[piper]

There is another upgrade today

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The following packages will be upgraded:
  adwaita-icon-theme cups-filters cups-filters-core-drivers e2fslibs e2fsprogs ethtool libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2
  libblockdev-mdraid2 libblockdev-part-err2 libblockdev-swap2 libblockdev-utils2 libblockdev2 libcomerr2 libcupsfilters1 libdlrestrictions1
  libfontembed1 libmpfr4 libss2
20 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,697 kB/15.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 2,555 kB disk space will be freed.


[samoht]

Thank you so much for paying attention, @piper.
Obviously there is much upgrade activity at this moment.
Therefore I will not show you why your suggestion did not work on my machine but wait for some hours/days and inform you then on my results.
Your help is appreciated, @piper.
So long and greetings,
Tom

[piper]

Obviously there is much upgrade activity at this moment.

hmm ... not seeing it

0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

[samoht]

Ok, here are my results:

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# LANG=C apt --reinstall install sddm kde-config-sddm libblockdev-crypto2 libblockdev-part2 libblockdev-fs2 libblockdev-loop2 libblockdev-swap2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of kde-config-sddm is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:


The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libblockdev-part2 : Depends: sgdisk (>= 0.8.6) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


# LANG=C apt policy sgdisk
sgdisk:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:


# LANG=C apt --reinstall install kde-config-sddm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reinstallation of kde-config-sddm is not possible, it cannot be downloaded.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.


# LANG=C apt policy kde-config-sddm
kde-config-sddm:
  Installed: 4:5.8.5-1
  Candidate: 4:5.8.5-1
  Version table:
     4:5.10.5-1 1
          1 https://deb.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages
*** 4:5.8.5-1 100
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:5.8.4-1 500
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        500 https://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages        500 http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20170801 stretch/main amd64 Packages

[finotti]

OK, on my aptosid system, the latest update (which I am not sure is exactly the same as the one piper posted above) fixed the icon problems (with Chromium and Firefox) that I've posted above in this thread.  (There was a "plasma-integration" update...  Maybe that was it...)

There is also a new udisks2 (version 2.7.2-2) for me, which might fix the problem with the previous version, but I cannot confirm, since I had already applied towo's fix.

Just FYI.

[piper]

sgdisk is a shared library that is found  at    /sbin/sgdisk

You may have to wait a few hours or a day

https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1544602.html

[piper]

samoht

Interesting, you have

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kde-config-sddm:
  Installed: 4:5.8.5-1

Where did you get this ? 

Should be (sid)

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apt policy kde-config-sddm
kde-config-sddm:
  Installed: 4:5.8.4-1
  Candidate: 4:5.8.4-1

Testing is 4:5.8.4-1

Experimental is  4:5.10.5-1 1

[samoht]

Experimental repo ist activated on my machine, but never installed KDE related packages from this repo. Will try installing from the unstable repo.