I’m getting the message
Your saved session type ‘kde4’ is not valid any more. Please select a new one, otherwise ‘default’ will be used.
when I try to log in. I can’t even log in as failsafe. I think my packages may not be installed correctly. Can anyone help me? Thanks.
In the login screen, look for the Session types, select the KDE Plasma Workspace option, login. That should work.
BTW How did you upgade? Upgrading is only supported from one version to the next
That doesn’t work with either the regular KDE Plasma Workspace option or its failsafe version. I upgraded with zypper by disabling the old repositories and adding the new ones then doing a “zypper ref” then a “zypper dup”.
On 11/16/2012 06:16 PM, simps05192 wrote:
> I upgraded with zypper by disabling the old
> repositories and adding the new ones then doing a “zypper ref” then a
> “zypper dup”.
some folks get real lucky and that works kind’a (after chasing around
cleaning up lots of little problems–like it won’t boot, or X wont start
or or or or)…but, it so often fails to bring a smile because there is
a lot more to than just change repos and zupper magic…
as mentioned already the only supported upgrade to 12.2 would be from a
fully updated, propery setup and smoothly running 12.1, everything else
is a pure roll of the dice…here are the supported/recommended paths:
http://tinyurl.com/35p966c
http://tinyurl.com/93uemsr
http://tinyurl.com/7l4m2td
but to get to a working 12.2 you probably (i say probably because there
is no way to actually know the state of your system now) is to either
reinstate (restore from full system backup) whatever you had prior to
the failed upgrade attempt, and do it over following one of the
recommended ways above…or do a fresh install and then join in
the data you saved off before you began the upgrade…
if you don’t have a secure backup of all data, then now is probably the
time to boot from a live CD and save what you can to an off machine
location…
by the way, you say you went from “11”, i wonder which 11?
I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do that. Well I guess I have something to do over the Thanksgiving holiday!
On 2012-11-16 18:46, simps05192 wrote:
> I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do that. Well I guess I have something
> to do over the Thanksgiving holiday!
You have to review all rpmsave, rpmorig, rpmnew files.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Maybe just getting rid of the .kde4 directory ie rename or delete it. (Note that some data may be stored there like emails if you use Kmail)
However there could be other things that might be a problem. But try that first you will have to re setup you KDE desktop.
On 2012-11-16 23:26, gogalthorp wrote:
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> Maybe just getting rid of the .kde4 directory ie rename or delete it.
> (Note that some data may be stored there like emails if you use Kmail)
Before deleting anything, better create a new user and try it. If that
works, it is the user config that is bad and you can start making
backups and deleting files.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))