June 08 2008
Argh … Total Disaster.
Recently Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) pushed some updates which contained a kernel update . I believe the kernel number was 2.26.24-18. Anyway it was at the same time that I thought of installing KDE 4.1 Beta 1 out on my system. Somehow while installing the updates I managed to screw up my system in more than one way.
The updates went through but on reboot once I entered the new kernel option in the grub Menu I was missing Sound, Desktop Effects and my systems seemed to way slower. now comes the funny part. I opened up synaptic and found that the KDE 4.1 packages didn’t seem like it got installed since it was still in the menu along with the Linux kernel files. For some odd reason I couldn’t select them either. There was a Partial Upgrade option but clicking it actually did not change anything. it just gave another error message that said “The packages could not be authenticated.”
Its at this point I tried downloading again, again ….and again. The funny thing is when I closed Gnome out and opened KDE 4.1 it did actually open albeit the sound and desktop effects of course. Anyway at the end of this adventure I decided to just reinstall the whole thing and see if I get the same problem.
I don’t know what I did to screw up my install very badly but the install and 400 MBs of updates including the kernel went on without event. Maybe tomorrow Ill give KDE 4.1 a try again 
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PS: Always remember to make backups of those deb files you downloaded in case something does go wrong. It would saev you the trouble of having to redownload everything of course.
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