Hello its me...

My KDE box has been working well for a month now but today I
start it up...
login...
Goes though the splash screen....
Then I loads the desktop...
and then it crashes...

No icons menus sidebars, or anything plasma related works...

I can move the mouse, control alt delete to get the logoff menu (which does work), control alt f1 to get to command, and a simple colck program I have start up automatically on login loads, but I cant interact with it...

Everything was working just fine yesterday, I don't know what is wrong..

btw.. gnome still works flawlessly... (that is how I am posting)

thanks for any help

If you press "Alt + F2" after having logged in, does a small window pop down at the top of the screen? If it does, try running "Konsole" using it. Once Konsole opens, try running "plasma-desktop &" and see if it crashes somewhere.

In particular, try running "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" to fix any crashes. Have you recently performed any updates or installed any themes/applets? Has your system been shutdown incorrectly?

alt f2 works

typing plasma-desktop in konsol does nothing in kde

in gnome it starts up the kde destop with all the same problems


havn't tryed kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental yet

kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

does not change anything

Under KDE were any messages given after running "plasma-desktop" your Plasma configuration may be corrupted.

Try moving ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop* elsewhere.

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killall -9 plasma-desktop
mkdir ~/old-config/
mv $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma-desktop*  ~/old-config/
plasma-desktop &

It worked! Thanks!

(kinda serves me right for the ridiculous config I had earlier)