<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><div>If I recall correctly, zypper is the package manager for OpenSUSE, so those commands won't work on Kubuntu.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It's still possible that something went wrong with an upgrade, so it's worth trying the equivalent Ubuntu commands:<br></div><div><br></div><div>sudo apt update<br></div><div>sudo apt upgrade<br></div><div><br></div><div>(Older guides may say apt-get instead of apt - they're the same in newer versions of Ubuntu)<br></div><div><br></div><div>If KDE isn't working, you may need to get into a terminal first - this used to be possible by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1, but it's some time since I had to use it, so maybe it's changed on newer systems.<br></div><div><br></div><div>If it's not possible to fix it with the updates, I think I'm out of my depth again. If you can make it to Techmeetup next Wednesday, someone can probably have a look.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,<br></div><div>Thomas<br></div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, at 2:05 PM, azmodie wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt"><div dir="ltr"><div>This thread suggest its a package issue. <br></div><div><br></div><div>try : <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size"> zypper up</span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size"> zypper dup</span></span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="color:#2e3436" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size"></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="color:#2e3436" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size">and reboot. </span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="color:#2e3436" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size"></span></span></span><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" class="font"><span style="color:#2e3436" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13.3px" class="size">Kris<br clear="all"></span></span></span></div><div><div class="qt-gmail_signature" dir="ltr"><div>--<br></div><div><a href="http://gplus.to/azmodie">http://gplus.to/azmodie</a><br></div><div>"Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak." -- some bright spark<br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><div class="qt-gmail_quote"><div class="qt-gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 09:31, emailontheweb <<a href="mailto:emailontheweb@protonmail.ch">emailontheweb@protonmail.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left-color:rgb(204, 204, 204);border-left-style:solid;border-left-width:1px;padding-left:1ex;" class="qt-gmail_quote"><div>Good morning,<br></div><div>Installed Kubuntu updates that wanted to restart the PC so restarted then Firefox wanted to restart also and then I came back to this delightful black screen error (see attached ).There's nothing more relaxing than seeing the word "broken" in an error message.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Ctrl + Alt +F2 doesn't do anything.<br></div><div>From what I could see online KDE and Mint do not like each other <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1597719">https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1597719</a><br></div><div>That forum diacussion is from 2016-2017 btw.<br></div><div><br></div><div>PC went to sleep I moved the mouse and get : "Could not start ksnserver.Check your installation." It's also 15mins behind the correct time for some reason.<br></div><div>Anybody know if this can be fixed at all? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Marion<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sent from ProtonMail mobile<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div> EdLUG mailing list<br></div><div> <a href="mailto:EdLUG@lists.edlug.org.uk">EdLUG@lists.edlug.org.uk</a><br></div><div> <a rel="noreferrer" href="https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug">https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug</a><br></div></blockquote></div><div>-- <br></div><div>EdLUG mailing list<br></div><div>EdLUG@lists.edlug.org.uk<br></div><div>https://lists.edlug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/edlug<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>