HELP-Kubuntu-Whacked screen after update

[Wayne Davis]

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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