KDE does not work after upgrade + hang to 9.1

[Jochen Wurster]

Hi Alan,

thanks for the tip. It didn't fix the problem, but it brought me to the 
solution.
I typed 'apt-get install kde*4'.
After  downloading  of about  1.5GB  of kde packages  i  was  able to  
log into kde  again.

Bye Jochen
> On Thursday 05 November 2009 02:22:15 pm Jochen Wurster wrote:
>   
>> > Hi all,
>> > 
>> > i have upgraded my machine from Kubuntu 9.04 to 9.1. The update ran
>> > without any error. After the update the reboot dialog appeared.
>> > Unfortunately my machine hanged at this moment. So i had to do a hard
>> > reboot. After the reboot it is no longer possible to login into kde. The
>> > login dialog appears. After the login only the background image is shown.
>> > 
>> > I think the update is not complete (because of the hard reboot). Do you
>> > have an ideas on how to complete the update.
>> > 
>> > 
>> > Bye Jochen
>> > 
>>     
>
> Reboot your machine and log in to a recovery session.  I would use the one 
> from your older kernel, not the 2.6.31-14-generic kernel, just to be safe.
> When a box comes up, pick something like 'root shell with networking', I don't 
> remember the exact wording.  You will drop to a terminal as root, be careful.  
> Then type 
> 	apt-get update
> let that finish and type
> 	apt-get dist-upgrade
> When done, type
> 	shutdown -r
> That will reboot your system nicely.  Hopefully that fixes the problem.
> -- 
> Alan