8.10 Updates?

[Clay Weber]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:59:08 am D. R. Evans wrote:
>
> Basically, no, although your symptoms seem to be particularly severe.
>
> My system started updating to 4.2 on Saturday. After several attempts
> spread over most of the day on Saturday it purported to have completed 
the
> job, but it seems half-baked at best. I have lost most of my plasmoids, 
and
> have had to stop KDE and log back in several times in the past couple of
> days because the system would become unusable.

have you tried removing the broken plasmoids and tried  re-adding them 
back?

If that does not work, delete your ~/.kde/share/config/plasmarc and 
~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc, then log out/log in (this will set your 
desktop  to the defaults, however) There were changes in plasma that make 
4.1 plasmoids/palsmoid configurations incompatible with 4.2, and usually 
removing/re-adding the offending ones does the trick.

Another thing to do is to make sure you disable the ppa 4.2 repo if you  have 
the backports repo (unsupported updates) enabled, there may be a few 
packages that didn't update/upgrade.(it doesn't sound like you do, though)

4.2 recently made it into intrepid-backports
 
>
> I don't know of a way to roll back, otherwise I would have done so.
>
> I filed a bug report against the specific plasmoid problem that I am seeing
> (which seems to be due to a packaging error; see e-mail
> 49A2C85D.9010101 at gmail.com), but was told that it was "invalid", 
although
> repeated requests for an explanation as to why it's invalid have gone
> unanswered.

probably because backports are unsupported, I would guess, without seeing 
the actual bug report on launchpad


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