Upgrade to Kubuntu 16.04 LTS had issues

[Mark Fraser]

On Sunday, 7 August 2016 20:28:12 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
> Aaron Honeycutt wrote:
> > Any upgrade can be bumpy, ideal it would have no issues. Ubuntu and
> > the other flavors also made the move to systemd from upstart so they
> > could have similar issues but we also moved from KDM to SDDM as well
> > so it's not getting enabled as a service in systemd.
> 
> KDM was replaced by lightdm during the upgrade 12.04 -> 14.04 IIRC, so
> your use of KDM was not a standard situation. OTOH KDM was still
> available for 14.04, so the upgrade script should have handled it
> gracefully IMHO.
> 
> But to me it looks a bit strange that sddm isn't enabled automatically.
> I haven't seen that with the two upgrades I made in December. Maybe that
> is a new bug?

I did a similar upgrade today from 14.04 to 16.04 and the first question asked 
after it downloaded the packages was what DM did I want to use lightdm or 
sddm. I replied sddm, but it was never installed and I therefore had a blank 
screen instead of a DM.

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