I have a dual boot desktop with Win 7 and Netrunner. I tried running the script to upgrade from 15 to 16. That seemed to run normally and I was prompted to reboot. When I did so, Grub still said 15 (no choice for 16). I selected 15 and boot up continued until my wallpaper showed for a few seconds, then I got a dialog box saying Plasma shell terminated unexpectedly (or something to that effect). When I closed the dialog box I was left with a black screen and my mouse cursor. I tried rebooting again (power off - power on) with the same result. I’m pretty much a Linux noob and not a programmer, so any instructions will have to be pretty detailed without assuming much knowledge on my part. Thanks in advance for any help.
Can you still call krunner by pressing ALT+F2?
If yes please try opening a terminal and enter plasmashell to get an error message.
Please use quotations then to paste the errors/warnings appearing.
Protip. Maybe just the configuration is broken. Can you try creating a new user with the tool kuser and login into its session.
I don’t think this is what you meant, but when I started typing “plasmashell” into the box at the top of the screen, I noticed a reference to this file which I attached: plasmashell-20150929-214836.kcrash.txt
I also was able to get a screenshot of the error dialog box which I also attached.
I will try this next.
Thanks,
Dave
Update - Had to load kuser. Ran it and created new user but I don’t get a login screen so it keeps logging in as the original user and generating the plasmashell error. I was able to run User Manager and it shows the “Automatic login” check box for the original user as unchecked. With my limited knowledge, I’m stuck.
Well I gave up and just loaded Netrunner 16 from a USB stick. Had all my personal files archived, but have to reload all my programs and settings . Oh well, such is life.
. Oh well, such is life.