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Desktop disappeared

Fri Sep 18, 2015 11:59 am
Hello ;=)

After an update i had a slow motion behaviour of the desktop, clicking on apps was slower than usual.
Now that i rebooted the machine i have no more desktop available, i can only see "green waves" picture which is the default screen but nothing else.
How can i solve this ?
Thank you ;)

I'm using the following :
plasma5-desktop 5.4.1-104.4 (1)
mesa 11.0.0-500.1
Graphics card is Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Curacao PRO [Radeon R9 270] with radeon driver.

(1) from http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... nSUSE_13.2
and http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... nSUSE_13.2 repositories.


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Re: Desktop disappeared

Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:15 pm
manchette wrote:Now that i rebooted the machine i have no more desktop available, i can only see "green waves" picture which is the default screen but nothing else.

So Plasma seems to be running (and not crashing).

Try a fresh user account, or rename/remove the file ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc to get back the default widgets.

I'm using the following :
plasma5-desktop 5.4.1-104.4 (1)
mesa 11.0.0-500.1

Where did you install Mesa 11.0.0 from, and when?
13.2 only has 10.3.0.
Maybe that's the reason for your problem?
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Re: Desktop disappeared

Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:26 pm
i forgot to say i'm using kernel 4.2 from kernel stable repository ( http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... e/standard )
i rebooted the machine and plasma was still ko, went in i3 tiling window manager, and then back in kde plasma and then desktop booted as usual.
It's still slow motion though.

zypper info mesa says it comes from obs://build.opensuse.org/X11


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Re: Desktop disappeared

Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:28 am
Can you see if in ~/.xsession-errors there are reference to "kbuildsycoca"? What is the version of "kservice" that you have installed?


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Re: Desktop disappeared

Sat Sep 19, 2015 7:38 am
and please check "ps ax | grep plasmashell"
a ""green waves" picture" indicates absolutely nothing, could just be a copy to the root window from sddm/kdm.
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Re: Desktop disappeared

Sat Sep 19, 2015 6:47 pm
Hello ;=)

Behaviour is still strange today :
1st boot i had a black screen, mouse only was available
went to i3 tiling manager : working ok,
back in Plasma session for 2d session boot i had the green waves, mouse only also
3d boot i had my usual desktop

here's what i have :

.xsession-errors is empty see below

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> cat /home/fabrice/.xsession-errors

fabrice@openSUSE132:~> zypper info kservice
...

Informations sur paquet kservice :
----------------------------------
Dépôt : kde_frameworks5_132
Nom : kservice
Version : 5.14.1-79.1
Arch : x86_64
Fabricant : obs://build.opensuse.org/KDE
Installé : Oui
État : A jour
Taille une fois installé : 762,4 KiB
Résumé : Plugin framework for desktop services
Description :
  Provides a plugin framework for handling desktop services. Services can
  be applications or libraries. They can be bound to MIME types or handled by
  application specific code.
fabrice@openSUSE132:~>



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Re: Desktop disappeared  Topic is solved

Sun Sep 20, 2015 10:47 am
You have a version of KService which has a known bug. If you are using the KDE:Frameworks5 a new version should be available soon with a possible fix for the poblem.


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Re: Desktop disappeared

Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:48 am
Thank you, this is a possible solution to be then :)


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