Bug 158820

the problem is here:

plasma(8325) Plasma::Corona::addContainment: loading of containment "" failed. 

can you attach your ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc file to this report? thanks.

Created attachment 23797 [details]
backtrace file

similar crash on openSUSE 10.3, tried to add file you suggested, but file manager reported it was empty 

Created attachment 23832 [details]
crash report

my thread is nor cathegorised correctly. I use an opensuse 10.3 OSS - not
ubuntu

Gerry: openSUSE stores KDE 4 configs in $HOME/.kde4/.... so add a '4' to the path Aaron gave you.

Pilus: please can you install the kdelibs4-debuginfo and kdebase4-debuginfo packages from the KDE:KDE4:STABLE:Desktop openSUSE repo and update that crash report?

All: are you using 4.0.2?

hi Gerry and Pilus,

I fear the backtraces are not useful cause they don't contain any informations.

@Gerry
That your plasma-appletsrc may a reason. Does the crash go away if you just remove that file?

@Pilus
probably try to install the debug-packages, so e.g. kdebase-dbg rather then kdebase, since with them the backtrace is useful since then more detailed informations are provided. Thanks in advance and for the feedback :)

oh, seems I was to slow. So, thanks Will :)

funny- I updated the system and installed the debug and now KDE is starting (nearly) well. The KDE menu (superkaramba?) down with the program items does not appear any more. What happend? there was no error message. How can I get it back?

Pilus:
nope, not SuperKaramba, that's pure C++ Plasma power :)
Well, right-click on the panel and "Add Widget" and then choose there the "Application Launcher". This should add a new "big blue K" box that should bring up Kickoff aka the application menu if you click on it.
Though that it isn't there any longer isn't logical and shouldn't happen :-(

Pilus:
Just for the case such an "Add Widget" menuitem isn't there, since I am not sure if that got backported as well, you are also able to right-click on the desktop and choose there the "Add Widget" item and then just drag and drop the "Application Launcher" item to the Panel at the position you like to have it.

tx, that's it! Now I got the menu and all programs I tested were working fine. And how do I get the grey/brown menubar at the bottom? You know, where I get a symbol of each running program. You know, the classic view of the toolbar

So how do I get the "Kontrollleiste" - the Taskbar? Since update from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2 it is gone now. How do I get it back?

Pilus:
The same way as with the menu but choose "Taskbar" rather then "Application Launcher" and, before that question arrives too, same with the clock or other elements ;)

There is no choice for Taskbar! I Already added the clock ;-) And I also tested other programs. There is a Task-Manager but this is not quite the taskbar

I got this crash today on 4.0.2. I was able to recover by removing plasma-appletsrc.

I will attach the offending file.

Created attachment 24123 [details]
plasma-applectsrc which causes plasma crash on startup

I got this again today. The plasma-appletsrc is exactly the same as before (I had made the exact same changes to the bar).

Both times when I had this, plasma crashed, and then when I went to re-start it plasma would not start.

I have the same problem

I am experiencing what I believe is a similar problem.  On an ubuntu hardy system plasma initially crashed while I was using it to switch virtual desktops.  Major applications running at the time included firefox, amarok, eclipse, and pidgin, along with the post-it note widget available in ubuntu's extragear-plasma package.  I had not modified the plasma configuration or added/removed/altered widgets in roughly 24 hours.  After that plasma was not able to launch successfully, and if run from konsole (in X) produced the following output:

<unknown program name>(5732)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x805b968 65011713
<unknown program name>(5732)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x805b228
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Extension:    155 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Resource id:  0x5a
plasma(5733) PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 7747 kilobytes
plasma(5733) Plasma::Corona::addContainment: loading of containment "" failed.
findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found
Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasma path = <unknown> pid = 5733
sock_file=/home/stefan/.kde4/socket-stefan-kubuntu-clean/kdeinit4__0
plasma(5732): 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 noticed the similar "loading of containment" message, and removed my plasma-appletsrc file, which alleviated the problem, at least for the moment.  I am attaching the contents of my plasma-appletsrc file for comparison, since it appears to be fairly different from the currently attached one.

Created attachment 24189 [details]
A different plasma-appletsrc which appears to cause a related problem

these are all BIC issues from tracking packages with such issues =/ should be resolved as we move to 4.1 based desktops.