after du (12.10.) plasma-desktop won´t start

[delta9]

Any news about this issue. I still have a black screen

[dibl]

I have not seen anything about a recent issue with plasma-desktop.  Here it works fine:

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root@imerabox:/# apt-cache policy plasma-desktop
plasma-desktop:
  Installed: 4:4.11.3-90r3
  Candidate: 4:4.11.3-90r3
  Version table:
*** 4:4.11.3-90r3 0
        500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://packages.siduction.org/kdenext/ experimental-snapshots/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.11.3-2 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://http.debian.net/debian/ unstable/main amd64 Packages



Do you get a KDM login?  What happens after you log in?  Can you open a user terminal, and try to start plasma-desktop from there?

[delta9]

Hello dibl,

after today's d-u i have a working kde desktop again.

Thanks a lot for your time,

Cheers

[vayu]

Any other ideas?  I just did a du today and now have a plasma crash dialog and a black screen.  I've tried renaming plasma-desktop-appletsrc but that did not help. (Edit) Renaming .kde/share/config brings back kde, I haven't found which files have the problem but it was not any of the plasmarc files.

After copying some files over bit by bit and trying to keep track of them, I have some instability with plasma crashing periodically but recovering. I can't tell which files were the ones that introduced the instability.

[piper]

Any other ideas?  I just did a du today and now have a plasma crash dialog and a black screen.  I've tried renaming plasma-desktop-appletsrc but that did not help. (Edit) Renaming .kde/share/config brings back kde, I haven't found which files have the problem but it was not any of the plasmarc files.

After copying some files over bit by bit and trying to keep track of them, I have some instability with plasma crashing periodically but recovering. I can't tell which files were the ones that introduced the instability.

You could try in a terminal

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
 
then delete .kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc (make sure you back it up first)

then in a terminal, execute plasma-desktop

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kshell4 plasma-desktop

[vayu]

Seems to be some combination in systemsettings and kwinrc.  I haven't isolated it yet.  But even with everything working, systemsettings crashes when going to workspace appearance.

[Dieter-MZ]

Hi vayu, that's, what I was facing after a DU a last friday. Workspace appearance crashed. But after a DU last sunday everything is working fine now. Without changing or deleting any *rc-files. So I think there was a temporary missmatch between some files and repositories as mentioned in an other thread here.