Upgrade Kubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 - lost desktop
I upgraded Kubuntu to 14.04 today and it is a disaster!
The system booted to a usable desktop, but lost some settings related to the external monitor I'm using. I got that fixed and shut down for a complete backup of the root partition (/home is separate). When I restarted the system, I got a screen with the default wallpaper but *nothing* else. No icons, no panel, nothing. Reboot - same thing. Correction: there was an Activities button in the upper right corner. I renamed ~/.kde to start over and have a usable desktop, but I cannot add anything to the panel. I get frequent crashes, but the crash reporter always says not enough information to submit a report. Virtal Desktops are unusable. Any attempt to configure them in the System Settings menu results in nothing happening. The window hangs and only comes back to life after I shift focus away and back. How do I recover my desktop? Besides restoring from backup? Thanks Jim |
I'd try and create a test user, log on as test user and see if everything is normal. If it is then the trouble is somewhere in your home directory, not necessarily in ~/.kde. My 2¢.
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By hiding .kde and letting the system create a new directory, I'm effectively a new user and it works. The problem appeared to be that the upgraded KDE did not handle the previous version's configuration very well.
I restored .kde and ran Code:
dpkg-reconfigure -a |
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