Dist upgrade from kubuntu to plucky beta removes kubuntu-desktop packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I upgraded my system from kubuntu 24.10 to plucky beta. The process went smooth until the step "Searching for obsolote software. This took like 2h on my devent developer machine (100% CPU from a python process called "plucky").
After that, it says that it will
"418 packages are going to be removed. 1 new package is going to be
installed."
It went through, I rebooted and after that, all plasma packages were missing. I had to reinstall the kubuntu-desktop metapackage. Other packages that I installed manually where there.
I tried this 2 times already, same result. I have a log file of the dist upgrade if it helps (16MB of logs).
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.32.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CrashDB: ubuntu
CrashReports:
640:0:
664:0:
600:116:
CurrentDesktop: KDE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 25.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-02-14 (777 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 22.10 "Kinetic Kudu" - Release amd64 (20221020)
Package: ubuntu-
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
Tags: plucky wayland-session dist-upgrade
Uname: Linux 6.14.0-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to plucky on 2025-04-01 (0 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip docker kvm libvirt lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
VarLogDistupgra
INFO:root:
INFO:root:No xorg.conf, exiting
_MarkForUpload: True
affects: | ubuntu → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
tags: | added: 3rd-party-packages |
tags: |
added: third-party-packages removed: 3rd-party-packages |
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