Re: HELP-Kubuntu-Whacked screen after update

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Author: Wayne Davis
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: HELP-Kubuntu-Whacked screen after update
I cannot rename the directory from the Recovery/Root prompt, says it is
a read-only file system.

What now?


On 07/04/2012 12:43 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> I've had ill effects occur in kde and gnome like this forcing me to
> basically rename the ~/.gnome2* directors as well as ~/.kde to
> rebuild/fix odd desktop issues. The profiles were sometimes glitchy
> due to laptop hard shutdowns forcing me to recreate new, but haven't
> had that issue in a long while with ext4 (always suspected it was a
> weird reiserfs artifact).
>
> Upgrades in ubuntu more often then not hose my systems desktop-wise as
> they extend/change dbus and gconf schemas, and upgrades don't seem to
> always catch usage throughout the desktop config files. I'm sure kde
> is similar. Try a new user profile and work back from there, renaming
> it from a root shell and/or create a new user.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On 07/03/2012 11:57 AM, Wayne Davis wrote:
>> A friends system had an update yesterday. Today, when you boot it up,
>> the is a blue screen with a couple of folders that WERE on the desktop
>> before. BUT,it says its unable to load the system tray now.
>>
>> I did have him boot into recovery mode run DPKG's fix mode, which only
>> removed 1 obsolete file. Still the same results.
>>
>> Any Ideas?
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