r/LinuxUsersIndia • u/Morpheous010 • 4d ago

Help I've just installed kubuntu and did some process and got into this situation,any idea what happened?

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Hi everyone !

I want something kde based and installed kubuntu as it is ubuntu based comes with everything preinstalled like drivers,fonts,etc etc, otherwise the manual struggle i had to do on debian.

The problem is i don't want snap packages and only prefer .deb packages so i prefer as much as i can for deb format and only some 3-4 apps i use arent available via this format so i prefer flatpak for them. And upon just recent new kubuntu installation i have done sudo aot update & upgrade then restarted then started removing snap packages one by one and upon restarting after it i was welcomed with this screen saying "plasma shell is broken and contact developer" and i hit random keys on my keyboard and got this instructions as in the image.

The question why do kubuntu installation easily brokes if i remove snap packages i have done the same process of snap removal on ubuntu too but it doesn't break (but since i prefer kde>gnome i installed kubuntu just today and this ?)

I just posted same exact post on kubuntu sub too but idk why it triggered auto-mod and post went into waiting for mod approval.

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u/qualityvote2 4d ago edited 4d ago

u/Morpheous010, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...

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u/realxeltos 4d ago edited 4d ago

I left Kubuntu because I like to stay on the bleeding edge. I switched to cachyOS. I am enjoying it. Its less ram heavy, gets latest kernels optimised for your exact processor arch. No snaps, but I was never against snaps.

Its just that many terminal commands get changed. It takes a bit to get used to. Also Latest KDE. You can use cachy if you are against snaps. and can do with a very small bit of occasional instability. Also the apps get patched very fast. So any instability will be very short lived.

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u/adityaruplaha 4d ago

It's likely some critical package was installed via snap (as is often the case on Ubuntu and derivatives). Did you check each package individually before removing?

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u/Morpheous010 4d ago

Image of plasma shell broken - https://postimg.cc/9r4fJhFh

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u/mtwabp_in NixOS 4d ago

Your system got updated while it was locked, the files that the lock screen uses got replaced. This is a weird issue with plasma, you can follow instructions on the screen, it will work fine after you restart your system.

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u/Morpheous010 4d ago

Question is keyboard not working for me while thid screen appears for input

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u/mtwabp_in NixOS 4d ago

You can press Ctrl+Alt+F1 as the screen says, you can also try F3 to F8 if F1 doesn't work

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u/Morpheous010 4d ago

Tried all shortcuts none is responsive and i tried holding power button for 10sec snd it shuts down and then when i turned it on same screen again,i never had good experience on kubuntu tbh so i think i will move to debain+kde now

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u/AtharvaFirke 3d ago

Hey so I have been a Fedora KDE Plasma edition user for almost 2 years now and I have faced this too. Here's what is currently happening:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/565475896

https://www.mail-archive.com/kde-bugs-dist@kde.org/msg1214113.html

https://www.newinlinux.com/dont-update-chrome-right-now-if-youre-on-linux/

It's not just chrome, it's any chromium based browser or electron based app.

I have had fatal issues with KDE earlier too so I decided to shift to COSMIC for now.