Version: unspecified (using KDE 4.4.4) OS: Linux This happens to me consinstently after some hours of use plasma: * plasma is not showing icons any more on the panel or in the desktop folder but they are there, I can click them * I get "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly" on every attempt to open File dialogue or tab in Dolphin * the .xsession-errors is *full* of these lines: plasma-desktop(2833): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-dusty/kpc/kde-icon-cache.lock" , last result = 1 plasma-desktop(2833): Failed to lock file "/var/tmp/kdecache-dusty/kpc/plasma_theme_default.lock" , last result = 2 plasma-desktop(2833) KIO::SlavePrivate::SlavePrivate: Connection server not listening, could not connect kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/kio_file.so kio_file(29752)/kio (KIOConnection) KIO::Connection::connectToRemote: Unknown requested KIO::Connection protocol=' "" ' ( "" ) Another consequence of that problem is that the watch/calendar applet on the panel shows me the GMT time instead of the local time Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: On my deskstop: - login - use the desktop for some hours (sometime days) Actual Results: half broken panel
I found this bug that can be related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde4libs/+bug/580131
perhaps this has been fixed with kde 4.5
Let's hope it's how you say... It's a very painful problem
Is it still valid in a recent kde version?
I'm running KDE 4.7.3 and those issues are gone for me, I thus would close this bug report.