<div dir="ltr">Hi Alistar, <div><br></div><div>I'd try the usual recovery commands. </div><div><br></div><div><pre style="margin-top:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent;white-space:inherit;border-radius:0px">sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
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azmodie</pre><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div>--</div><a href="http://gplus.to/azmodie" target="_blank">http://gplus.to/azmodie</a><div>"Since light travels faster than sound, people appear bright until you hear them speak."  -- some bright spark</div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 14:23, Alistair <<a href="mailto:alistair@archerry.plus.com">alistair@archerry.plus.com</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">Last week I updated my Thinkpad T480 (running Kubuntu 22.04) using the command line. During the process the laptop crashed, and I am no longer able to access the desktop.<br>
I can login to console after boot up, but when I try to start the desktop with 'startx' I get a black screen. To get there it asks for a Kwallet password - (never previously used) and a wireless network password. The mouse pointer is a black arrow  with a white outline, which does follow movements of the trackpad but does not respond to right or left buttons.<br>
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I tried  'apt-get dist-upgrade' with the '-f' option to no avail.<br>
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I think it stated that several packages would be held back before the update. I booted into recovery mode, ran 'fsck', 'clean', enabled network, then ran 'dpkg' which updated 41 packages, but still no proper desktop.<br>
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How do I confirm the current state of the system, and then recover / repair the Kubuntu desktop?<br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Alistair<br>
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