Version: (using Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: GCC 4.24 OS: Linux There are some plasmoids on my desktop that I can only describe as "dead plasmoids" because they are just ugly black boxes that doesn't show which widgets they really are and that crash the entire desktop when I try to close them so I can't get rid of them. The most plasmoids also show up as black boxes when added to the desktop and cause the same problem. The add widget dialogue doesn't show the widgets that are presently running. The present KDE 4.0.73 that I am using seems to be a lot more unstable and unusable than the version that i tried many weeks ago, which was just a snapshot.
Please always attach a backtrace for crashes otherwise we cannot do anything with your bug report. Also list the offending plasmoids that stay black, list the ones that crash, tell us the kdebase revision number. If you can update also please do so, we did an amazing amount of work on those applets the last 2 days.
Thanks very much for your reply. My request may be a bit stupid but could you please assist me on how to properly generate a backtrace. I have filed a few bugs but I always wrote what I experienced without a backtrace. I am not really sure which Plasmoids are hanging around as black boxes since I can only see the boxes and not what widgets they should be. However, Bball, Picture Frame and notes are a few of the plasmoids that end up as black boxes when I add then to the desktop. Actually, the only ones that are working are the clocks, device notifier, lock/logout, Kget and and the application launchers. Could it be that my installation got messed up? I am using KDE 4.0.74-1.3 on openSuse 10.3. What I havealso noticed is that almost all KDE packages appear up to 5 times in the Yast installation list. I am considering doing a fresh install just to see if this problem will still be there after an update. Am Dienstag, 20. Mai 2008 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
For the crashes, see http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports It looks like the only applets that work are the ones from kdebase. It seems the ones from extragear/plasma (ask your distribution for the name of the package) are black so I suggest you reinstall those. For the Yast installation list, please also refer to your distribution.
Thanks for the reply. I am using openSuse 10.3 and i installed the packages from here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/UNSTABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_10.3/ I also did a fresh install of my systen since I thought that something got messed up but I am still having the same problem. Below is a report that I got after the most recent crash while trying to add the system tray plasmoid to the panel. Am Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2008 schrieb Anne-Marie Mahfouf: > For the Yast installation list, please also refer to your distribution. Created an attachment (id=24940) Add Plasmoid.kcrash
Hi Bobby, the backtrace is still not useful since it contains not the needed informations. Please use the debug-packages like explained at the link provided at comment #3 - thanks in advance :)
probably a duplicate of bug #162018
Am Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008 schrieb Sebastian Sauer: > t contains not the needed informations. Please use the debug-packages like > explained at the link provided at comment #3 - thanks in advance :) Hi Sebastian, Thanks for the reply. I will install the necessary packages so that I can make a useful backtrace in the future. I am now using the latest KDE beta version and it seems to be quite stable apart from the missing Thumbnail preview (compositing) and a few other things. I have had only one crash thus far while trying to drag and drop the trashcan from the desktop to the taskbar. Thanks once again Bobby
seems addressed; looks like the user got bit by an unstable snapshot .. it happens =/