Yesterday I started to do my usual evening Buster apt full-upgrade but
couldn't get it to work. I was getting messages about ldconfig not being
in the path.
I did another apt update this evening but ran into the same problem with
apt full-upgrade.
I rebooted to recovery mode and ran the upgrade there. It went OK.
However when I restarted, after logging in with sddm, Plasma 5 locked up
hard before bringing up the desktop. The computer wouldn't respond to
SysRq or Ctl-Alt-Del. It took a reset to reboot it.
The second time I managed to get into Plasma 5 but quickly was locked
into on virtual desktop. The applications on that desktop responded but
the task bar & pager were dead. Stopping and restarting Plasma left me
even worse off, as the running applications were overlapped on the
taskbar, which was still non-responsive.
I was able to log out using Ctl-Alt-Del and restarted in Gnome Fallback
(Metacity), which seemed to be running OK except that my monitor was
running in 1600x1200, which it doesn't actually support. It's usually in
1920x1080 and I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so I figured I'd just
install Gnome.
After I started Konsole I ran into the same full-upgrade issue as
before. So I rebooted into recovery mode again to complete the install.
Along the way, I tried Plasma again but it just does the hard lock now.
Gnome runs OK, once I adjusted the screen resolution (at least the
current Gnome makes that easy).
However it's still Gnome and I don't really think I want to spend the
time to figure out how to be productive in it. To me it just looks like
all flash and no substance. I want to get back to Plasma desperately.
Is it just my computer or are others having problems with Plasma too?
