problems upgrading to kubuntu 20.04 (jammy)

[Bob]

I am still using 18.04 because I had so many problems with 20.04 that I 
just gave up and hope that 22.04LTS is better.

Bob


On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, David Lang wrote:

> As I frequently do about this time before a release, I attempted to upgrade 
> my system to the latest release (do-release-upgrad -d) but this time I ran 
> into some grief, some of which I've worked though, but kde/X is still not 
> happy.
>
> I kicked off the upgrade, confirmed that I wanted it to download all the 
> packages, and it started the download. Some (significant) time later I came 
> back to the machine and the screen was blan (in power saving mode, normally 
> disabled on this desktop). I rebooted the machine and got an error that 
> something went wrong, press the button to logout and contact the 
> administrator (me). I rebooted again (as the system was unresponsive, 
> including alt fn and contrl-alt fn, control-al-del and control-alt-backspace. 
> I then did alt f2 and logged in at the command line and went though manual 
> apt commands to get the packages installed (including --fix-broken). I got 
> htings to where it is no longer complaining about any broken packages.
>
> But when I boot, I only get the command line login, if I login and run startx 
> I get the error that something has gone wrong and the system is unresponsive.
>
> I have attempted to do apt install kubuntu-desktop, but get the following:
>
>
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> 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:
> plasma-workspace : Depends: libkworkspace5-5 (= 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu1) but 
> 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu2~ubuntu21.10~ppa1 is to be installed
>                    Depends: libtaskmanager6 (= 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu1) but 
> 4:5.24.3-0ubuntu2~ubuntu21.10~ppa1 is to be installed
>                    Recommends: appmenu-gtk3-module but it is not going to be 
> installed
>
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> I don't really want to tell apt to ignore dependencies, but that would be my 
> next step. But I figured I'd ask for help first.
>
> David Lang
>
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