dist-upgrade borks my fresh install of 13 Maya KDE - help
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:39 pm
I'd really like to use 13 Maya KDE because I was impressed with the live USB session, but am having major difficulties.
After a fresh install, with everything going well, I log in and launch MintUpdate. The first thing I notice is how buggy MintUpdate is, sometimes disappearing and having to be re-opened (this happened many times), and sometimes hanging indefinitely. The first update is an update to MintUpdate itself, which hangs indefinitely, forcing me to xkill it after several minutes.
So in terminal I did apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade which involves like 450+ updates and takes longer than the initial install itself. I don't mind that but the big problem is that after being prompted to restart my computer, I restart and am quickly greeted with a black screen on boot. No text whatsoever, no anything at all, just total 100% borked, and I have no idea how to fix that or what even went wrong, since I was just doing a dist-upgrade on a fresh install. I replicated this failing twice but I rather not try this a third time and risk wasting several hours of time again unless I know for sure what's causing this. It's really a shame because this version of Mint KDE is really terrific and I'd love to use it. Thanks for any help.
After a fresh install, with everything going well, I log in and launch MintUpdate. The first thing I notice is how buggy MintUpdate is, sometimes disappearing and having to be re-opened (this happened many times), and sometimes hanging indefinitely. The first update is an update to MintUpdate itself, which hangs indefinitely, forcing me to xkill it after several minutes.
So in terminal I did apt-get update, then apt-get dist-upgrade which involves like 450+ updates and takes longer than the initial install itself. I don't mind that but the big problem is that after being prompted to restart my computer, I restart and am quickly greeted with a black screen on boot. No text whatsoever, no anything at all, just total 100% borked, and I have no idea how to fix that or what even went wrong, since I was just doing a dist-upgrade on a fresh install. I replicated this failing twice but I rather not try this a third time and risk wasting several hours of time again unless I know for sure what's causing this. It's really a shame because this version of Mint KDE is really terrific and I'd love to use it. Thanks for any help.