problems upgrading to kubuntu 20.04 (jammy)

[David Lang]

what is the ETA for this?

Is there a repo I can point to for the jemmy proposed packages (I would rather 
point at a repo than download all the packages and make a local one for a temp 
problem like this)

I was able to install a different desktop, so I have a working system again, but 
would much rather get back to what I'm used to, especially if it manages to 
retain the configs.

David Lang

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, Rik Mills wrote:

> This is a temporary problem, due to the fact that the ubuntu2 jammy 
> versions required for the upgrade got stuck in the jammy proposed pocket 
> because the Ubuntu test infra became seriously backlogged, and then the 
> beta freeze came into place.
>
> This should resolve shortly after the beta is released and the freeze 
> block removed.
>
> On 30/03/2022 02:36, 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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