Hi there!

I have found an annoying problem after I updated my KDE version in fedora 9 to 4.1.2. A new kde-workspace version was detected by YUM and I applied the update. The dependencies were resolved and everything was Ok... until I exited the session and started a new one. The whole desktop is gone! No wallpaper, no panels, no context menus, no nothing... Just a grid of grey and white squares...

From a gnome session I have removed all kde files, and have installed the basic rpm packages from YUM. Still no success. The desktop is gone.

Anyone else has experienced something similar ?
Can you tell me how to fix this ?

Thanks!

This looks like plasme didn't start. Are you able to bring up KRunner by hitting Alt+F2? If so, try to launch plasma manually. You may want to report that issue to Fedoras bug tracker as well.

dtritscher wrote:This looks like plasme didn't start. Are you able to bring up KRunner by hitting Alt+F2? If so, try to launch plasma manually. You may want to report that issue to Fedoras bug tracker as well.

Well, according to the system activity (Alt-F2) plasma is running, as well as the rest of apps that should be running in a normal kde session. BTW, Alt-F2 doesn't allow to launch any app.

We've seen this reported a few times to fedora, and in every case, it was a kernel/video-driver update that was installed near or at the same time that was the culprit. In particular, our favorite friend, nvidia. How about you?

I had that happen to me once when I was foolish enough to only update a small portion of kde workspace. Make sure you update the entire thing at one time, otherwise it rejects the plugins which provide virtually all functionality, until of course you update fully, and they all come back in sync. I am running OpenSuSE 11.0, but am running trunk at the moment.