problems upgrading to kubuntu 20.04 (jammy)

[David Lang]

sorry, I didn't specify, but I am upgrading from 21.10.

David Lang

On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, Bob wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 23:33:41 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Bob <accessys at smart.net>
> Reply-To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: problems upgrading to kubuntu 20.04 (jammy)
> 
>
> 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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