Version: (using KDE 4.1.3) Compiler: gcc 4.3.2 OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Hello In my ~/Desktop I had the file "wifi-radar.desktop" which is a link to "/home/jonas/.local/share/applications/wifi-radar.desktop". The application wifi-radar is not installed in my computer, but I have the link to the application because I did some copy and paste from my laptop. When I enter my session I just have a white screen. Strangely, when I remove the link "wifi-radar.desktop" and copy (instead of linking) /home/jonas/.local/share/applications/wifi-radar.desktop to ~/Desktop, I don't have this problem Bye Jonas
Created attachment 29140 [details] Here is the wifi-radar.desktop file
Do you have the folderview plasmoid loaded pointing to ~/Destop ?
Yes, I forgot to say that. I installed also the wifi-radar package in my computer, but strangely it doesn't solve the problem. Of course there is no sense to have the wifi-radar program in my computer because it doesn't have wifi. I noticed that I was still able to switch between the different desktops because I can use the applications that were launched during the startup on the desktop they were launched, and if I have a konsole I can launch other programs. I don't know if this bug can be easily reproducible. Bye Jonas
I did download the wifi-radar.desktop into my ~/.local/share/applications/ directory and created a link to it in my ~/Desktop directory and even after a restart I can't reproduce it using trunk (upcoming 4.2 beta2) compiled today. So, either it was fixed meanwhile or it's just not so easy to reproduce the problem :-/
Jonas: when the offending file is in ~/Desktop, open a konsole (Alt+F2, konsole, enter) and run `ps aux | grep plasma` to see if plasma is running. if it is, note the PID and then do: gdb `which plasma`. once gdb starts do `attach <PID_NUMBER>`, press enter, hit ctrl-c when it comes back and then type `bt` and post the backtrace here. if plasma is not running, then start it from that konsole window and see what happens, both on the konsole debug output as well as any crash dialog that might appear. thanks.
Hello I updated my system and I can't reproduce this bug anymore. I didn't know that we can debug a running process. That's interesting. Happy Christmas Jonas