Bug 256025

Summary: System broken after KDE 4.5.3 November update
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Charles Opondo <charlesopondo>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM    
Severity: major    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 10:05:04 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.2) 
OS:                Linux

My system is hopelessly broken after applying the November updates this morning. A number of packages were upgraded but quite a number of important ones (kdm, kdebase-*, kdebase-* plasma-* e.t.c.) were removed during the upgrade. When I attempt to manually reinstall the removed packages I get an error "Depends: [package] (>= 4:4.5.3) but 4:4.5.2[*] is to be installed" for several packages. I have not changes my software sources. I believe this is a severe problem!

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 10:13:01 UTC 
More information: the packages in the "Depends: [package] (>= 4:4.5.3) but 4:4.5.2[*] is to be installed" error are:

libkio5
libwineffects1a
libworkspace4
libplasma3
kfind
konsole
libkonq5
plasma-widget-folderview
konqueror-nsplugins
libkfile4
libplasmagenericshell4
libweather-ion5
Comment 2 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 10:40:08 UTC 
Reproducibility: I am experiencing this bug in both my desktop and laptop.
Comment 3 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 10:42:50 UTC 
By "hopelessly broken" I mean kdm/kde is unable to start; the splash screen runs perpetually.
Comment 4 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 11:54:15 UTC 
Another source https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/+bug/670788 says this is a packaging error and not truly a KDE bug.
Comment 5 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 12:02:34 UTC 
Their suggested solution is to downgrade to 4.5.1:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa (you may need to 'sudo apt-get install ppa-purge' first)
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
Comment 6 Charles Opondo 2010-11-04 12:39:18 UTC 
I can confirm that:

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge (if you didn't already have it installed)
sudo ppa-purge ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa
sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop
sudo rm -rf /tmp/kde*
sudo rm -rf /var/tmp/kdecache*

results in a working KDE 4.5.1.