Hi!

I've got an Eee PC 900A. Yesterday I installed easypeasy 1.0 (the netbook version of ubuntu). Everything went well, but then I also wanted to install KDE. I installed the latest KDE (4.2.1). But I get a fatal error on startup:

Code: Select all

The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).

All apps are working fine (I can start them with Alt+F2) except plasma

Thats what I already tried:
* I removed ~/.kde/share/config
* I removed ~/.kde/
* I removed KDE and installed it again
* I created a new user
* I started KDE without composite effects
* I reinstalled kdebase-plasma
But everything without success.

One strange thing: There are no plasma files in ~/.kde/share/config !?!

Thats what I get when I try to start plasma in konsole:

Code: Select all

(8155)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x94fb880 71303169
(8155)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x94f4ea8
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout
plasma(8156) Solid::Control::ManagerBasePrivate::loadBackend: Backend loaded:  "HAL-Power"
Object::connect: Attempt to bind non-signal TaskManager::TaskGroup::editRequest()
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
KCrash: Application 'plasma' crashing...
sock_file=/home/chris/.kde/socket-chreees/kdeinit4__0
plasma(8155): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

x@y:~$ (8161)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x8764880 71303169
(8161)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x875dea8
QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout
plasma(8163) Solid::Control::ManagerBasePrivate::loadBackend: Backend loaded:  "HAL-Power"
Object::connect: Attempt to bind non-signal TaskManager::TaskGroup::editRequest()
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
plasma(8161): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "


I have the same problem. It's seem that comes from the use of grandr to make dual header. When i use it ican't resart plasma, i have to delete plasma-appletsrc, then i can restart but i lose all my settings in plasma...

if somebody can help ?

Thanks

Ghislain

But in my case plasma doesn't even create a plasma-appletsrc. There isn't a single plasma file in ~/.kde4/share/config

I don't know what else I could try

Please install backtrace packages for Qt, Plasma and KDE Libs then generate a backtrace and file a bugreport. Kephal should be able to handle grandr being present without issues.

Just to let you know: I just updated to KDE 4.2.1 and now its working.