On Wednesday 26 August 2009 21:58:35 Ismael Bejarano wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:19 AM, David Baron<[email protected]> wrote: > >>Rebooted this morning and kde came up with a blank screen. I can run > >> anything I want using yakuake. If I restart kmail, I have that visible > >> and I can us that as well. No plasma, no panel. > >> > >>Trying to start up in a terminal session from another desktoop (oh, yes, > >>there are such animals!), I get an interminable list of nepomuk/akonadi > >>notices. I tried removing akonadi but that did not help. > >> > >>I actually have kicker up right now so I have menus. > >> > >>Now, I had restarted X and kdm after upgrading some packages yesterday > >> and it worked fine. Also, my wife's desktop comes up immediately without > >> a hitch. So ... what gives? Wait for next upgrade? Help :-) > > > > Maybe relevant: Conspicuous by it absence in the configuration dialogs-- > > background colors/patterns/wallpapers! Plasma if getting to the point > > where it would display a mis-sized version of the wallpaper (including > > some of the icons!) and then stops, displaying nothing. > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > [email protected] > > When plasma don't load I try the following steps > > * killall plasma-desktop and restart it (sometimes a previous instance > didn't close cleanly and dbus is trying to contact it and obviouly > fail) > * restart dbus/hal (after an update and they were restarted some > features from plasma stopped working) > * finally once no matter what I've done plasma didn't want to come up, > in the end I've to remove all plasma settings > ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* (make a backup first!) it seems that > somehow they were corrupt and/or a plasmoid didn't load correctly. >
Thanks for the suggestions. I had to remove the config files and start over (this is only the second time since 4.0.1 so I should not complain, but ...) I think the reason is that a lot of the plasmoids of changed. This should be more painless, however and should just "happen." My phone plasmoid is hanging which might have been the cause but I think this is a modem problem so will retry next time I do a hard reboot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
