Hey, wondering if any of you guys can help me.

Since I upgraded Kubuntu, I can no longer bring up krunner with Alt-F2 on my netbook.

I checked the global shortcuts and it says ALT-F2 is associated with 'Run Command'

I brought up a konsole and typed

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krunner

and got this output:

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krunner(2189)/kio (KDirWatch) KDirWatchPrivate::removeEntry: doesn't know "/home/stewart/.kde/share/apps/kabc"
QSqlDatabasePrivate::removeDatabase: connection 'qt_sql_default_connection' is still in use, all queries will cease to work.
QSqlDatabasePrivate::addDatabase: duplicate connection name 'qt_sql_default_connection', old connection removed.
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/stewart/.qalculate/eurofxref-daily.xml"
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/stewart/.qalculate/eurofxref-daily.xml"
krunner(2189)/libplasma Plasma::Package::isValid: Could not find required file mainscript

Googling sections of this revealed little.

Any help anyone can provide would be most welcome.

rename ~/.kde/share/config/krunnerrc and try

can you create a new user and try as that user to determine if your config or the KDE upgrade

Hey,

Thanks for taking an interest.

I had previously misunderstood the problem. When I first boot up, I cannot access krunner. However AFTER running

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krunner

in konsole and getting the above error messages, I CAN access it through alt+f2. (Apologies, I never thought to try it after the command 1st time round because I just assumed that it hadnt worked with those errors).

Also, if I key

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krunner

a second time, it just pops up without the errors.

Keying Alt+f2 several times after initial boot up does nothing.

deleting the config file has no effect and similarly with a temp user account. I have also re-installed (including a format of the partition) Kubuntu recently but still have the issue.

Any ideas would be most welcome?

Maybe as a workaround I could have the system run the command

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krunner

on start-up?

Yeah, you could add it to the session, btw, it should be there by default. Check system settings → startup and shutdown → automatic start

I recently had a similar issue, as the OP, but here is what I did to fix it.

For some reason, I had duplicate startup entries for krunner.destop and plasma-desktop.desktop in my ~/.kde4/share/autostart folder. I call these "duplicates" because they are found under the global /usr/share/autostart/ folder.

Check and see if you have such .desktop files under the following folders:

~/.kde4/share/autostart/
~/.config/autostart/
~/.kde4/Autostart/

If you see krunner.destop, plasma-desktop.desktop, or plasma-netbook.desktop under the above listed folders, remove them. Ignore other .desktop files that you might have manually created or configured yourself.

To play it safe, make sure you see krunner.desktop under the /usr/share/autostart/ folder.

Now log out and log back in, and see if it fixes the issue you were having.

Keep in mind that any entries located under /usr/share/autostart/ will not show up in Settings > Startup and Shutdown > Autostart

As for the keyboard shortcuts not working, they depend on the krunner service, which is why, ironically, ALT + F2 did not work. It's the same reason my other keyboard shortcuts did not work either, until I did the above fix for myself.

This is a followup to my above post. I thought it would help to show the contents of my /usr/share/autostart/krunner.desktop file:

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[Desktop Entry]
X-SuSE-translate=true
Exec=krunner
X-DBUS-StartupType=none
Name=Command Runner
Type=Service
X-KDE-StartupNotify=false
OnlyShowIn=KDE;
X-KDE-autostart-phase=1


I removed the long list of translated names, since it would make this page too long to scroll down.

Krunner is just one of the things that broke on my system after I upgraded from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 - I think the upgrade script was not as robust as it could have been.

The fix was a clean install and re-build from backups, time consuming but my system is MUCH better for it and Kmail is working properly (the KDE migration tool to Kmail2 didn't work well either).

i have the same problem
plasma-netbook
mageia 1 kde 4.6.5

i went to autostart menu , and i see that there is an entry krunner:desactivated so i check it to switch it to activated
i did nt do a such setting, maybe when we have plasma-netbook shell it happens automatically