bugs.debian.bug=851175

[Jimmy Johnson]

"Debian Bug report logs - #851175
plasma-workspace - All shell packages missing. This is an installation 
issue, please contact your distribution - missing dependency on 
plasma-desktop-data" I got hit with this one "All shell packages 
missing." while updating a Buster install today, it started with dpkg 
not being able to overwrite package "desktop-profiles" so instead of 
doing a force install I chose to purge the package and completed the 
update then reinstalled desktop-profiles, on reboot, after login is when 
I got hit with "All shell packages missing." and plasma would not start 
and it seems to be ambiguous from what I get searching the net, in my 
case the problem was package "desktop-profiles" being installed and 
purging desktop-profiles solved the problem and Plasma starts fine now.


Why would "desktop-profiles" being installed keep plasma from starting? 
Upgrade-system said the system was completely updated and clean with no 
orphaned packages before I rebooted.

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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7
Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Plasma 5.10 in Testing?

[Jimmy Johnson]

On 10/12/2017 04:26 AM, Libor Klepáč wrote:

Hi,
I see those sometimes, starting few minutes after resume.
It's fixable by `kquitapp plasmashell` & run it again from krunner.

I don't know when it started, i have to candidates:
1) after upgrading to Plasma 5.10
2) after enabling GPU accel in firefox

My GPU is
VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics
Controller (rev 0b)

BTW: is it safe to upgrade to latest MESA, pulling in libegl1? Last time i
tried, it broke GPU acceleration and also video acceleration. There are still
some bug reports opened againts MESA.


I have two Buster systems on my Haswell fully upgraded, I did have a 
update problem with dpkg not over writing package desktop-profiles so I 
purged desktop-profiles, completed the update and then reinstalled 
desktop-profiles.  After reboot I could not start plasma with Error (All 
shell packages missing.), I could not repair the problem and then got 
the idea that maybe re-purging desktop-profiles may fix the problem and 
it did, so now I have two buster systems completely updated working 
fine. So I do have the latest mesa in buster and all is well, but I 
never have had a problem with this Haswell.


Good luck,
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Jimmy Johnson

Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7
Registered Linux User #380263