<div dir="ltr"><div>.... tried holding down the power button to force turn it off, then turn it on again.....?</div><div><br></div><div>It could be that the running system did not like the underlying changes brought in by the updates. Does not usually happen, not seen that in many years, but not impossible....?<br></div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><br><br>===<br>Tai Kedzierski<br></div><div>Linux Operations and Deployments Engineer<br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><span></span><font size="1"><br>I use <a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/" target="_blank">LibreOffice</a> , a free, Freedom-respecting replacement for MS Office<br><br><i>Open Source Free Software is a matter of liberty, not price.</i><br>
<a href="https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software" target="_blank">https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software</a><br></font><font size="2"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 14:21, Thomas Kluyver <<a href="mailto:thomas@kluyver.me.uk">thomas@kluyver.me.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u><div><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="gmail-m_-7766402417611967746qt"><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"><span style="font-size:13.3px"> zypper up</span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.3px"> zypper dup</span></span><br></div></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54)"><span style="font-size:13.3px"></span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54)"><span style="font-size:13.3px">and reboot. </span></span></span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54)"><span style="font-size:13.3px"></span></span></span><br></div><div><div><span style="font-family:Open Sans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(46,52,54)"><span style="font-size:13.3px">Kris<br clear="all"></span></span></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br></div><div><a href="http://gplus.to/azmodie" target="_blank">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><div dir="ltr">On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 at 09:31, emailontheweb <<a href="mailto:emailontheweb@protonmail.ch" target="_blank">emailontheweb@protonmail.ch</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><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" target="_blank">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." 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