Widget corrupts account
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Hello, guys.
I just installed kde 4.2 RC1 on my PC running kubuntu 8.10 and as I was trying out the new widgets - the LCD weather crashed the plasma and I had to restart the xserv. Since then my user account cannot load KDE. However I can login as root. Kubuntu starts, logs my user account, and on the splash screen when it comes to kde, it disappears without loading the kde icon, it just stops. I tried to move(and delete) the .kde home folder, in order to force it to load the defaults, but it did not work. My guess is, the widget that crashed the system is somehow saved into the default setup of my account and it crashes every time it tries to boot. Is there a solution? Thanks, bned
Last edited by bned on Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:44 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Try removing ~/.kde4 or ~/.kde4-nightly as well
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As I stated above - unfortunately this trick doesn't work for me. When I reboot after I delete ./kde folder I get for a part of a second some kind of error dialog which is quickly overlayed by the background of the splash screen and I have no clue what it is about.
I forgot to mention that i have access to the Alt+F2 start widget but it cannot actually start anything. |
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If KRunner works, could you open Konsole, and perform a
Last edited by bcooksley on Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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It returns:
I was quite surprised that the Konsole worked 
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Lets try cleaning the configuration of Plasma.
First remove any instances of Plasma:
Now we remove the configuration
Now start Plasma up again:
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Also, try a plasma reinstall:
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Um, maybe try a simple reinstall first before purging:
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Just tried both the solutions given above, but none of them worked for me.
bcooksley, after I delete those files and start the plasma again, it prints this in the konsole :
and LinuxIsInnovation, when I reinstall(purge+install) the plasma nothing changes, it is still stuck and prints out those messages in the konsole:
Any other ideas? =( Also I want to ask if there is any other way to disable/reset/control the plasma outside the user account. If not, is it possible to transfer some part (all?) of the personal application settings within this account into an other, new one ? Please, guys any help is appreciated.
Last edited by bned on Fri Jan 16, 2009 6:18 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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If the task manager plasmoid is packaged seperately, please reinstall it, it appears to be damaged.
Also, after removing ~/.kde you couldn't have any recent documents.... If these also fail, try destroying the content of ~/.local as well
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