Bug 179228

Were you using custom (non-default) widgets ? Are you using KDE 4.1.3 (stable)
or KDE 4.2(unstable/beta) . If you're using 4.2unstable can you point what
version ? . Thanks

Sorry. I meant version 4.2. I was confused because the latest version on the list of applications was 4.1.3. Thanks.

What widgets did you "lost" in the upgrade ?

(In reply to comment #3)
> What widgets did you "lost" in the upgrade ?
> I lost the "Now playing" widget and the clock widget.

The "Now Playing" plasmoid is inside the "kdeplasma-addons" package. Did you have it installed?
And about the "clock" there are a lot of clocks :) . The fuzzy and the binary clock are inside the "kdeplasma-addons" package too.
The digital and analog clock are part of the base install.

(In reply to comment #5)
> The "Now Playing" plasmoid is inside the "kdeplasma-addons" package. Did you
> have it installed?
> And about the "clock" there are a lot of clocks :) . The fuzzy and the binary
> clock are inside the "kdeplasma-addons" package too.
> The digital and analog clock are part of the base install.
> 

I was using the "Analog clock". I did have the kdeplasma-addons package installed and it is still registered as installed. 

And, can't you re-add the widgets you lost ? Does they appear in the "Add Widget" dialog?

May be they were lost in the transition because some config change between 4.1 and 4.2.

(In reply to comment #7)
> And, can't you re-add the widgets you lost ? Does they appear in the "Add
> Widget" dialog?
> 
> May be they were lost in the transition because some config change between 4.1
> and 4.2.
> 

It appears in the dialog. When I add it, it says "This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find the requested component:null". 

What version are you using? 4.1.85 ? 4.1.86 ? (you can find it, running "dolphin --version" in Konsole). May be a packaging bug (Debian) too.

(In reply to comment #9)
> What version are you using? 4.1.85 ? 4.1.86 ? (you can find it, running
> "dolphin --version" in Konsole). May be a packaging bug (Debian) too.
> 

Qt: 4.4.3
KDE: 4.1.85 (KDE 4.1.85 (KDE 4.2 Beta2))
Dolphin: 1.1.80

I'm downloading the latest alpha release of Kubuntu. That might be more compatible with this beta.

I was unable to upgrade the system to the latest release of Kubuntu. I would have to completely reinstall the system to upgrade. Any suggestions besides upgrading?

Hello this should a problem coming from the packages you are using. Are you sure that your kde plasma-addons is updated too ? Which version the package say for it ?
Which version you have for the kubunu-default-settings too ? it's adding some non officiel plasmoid to the default conf of plasma and perhaps they are not present anymore in 4.2 or not compatible

u can try :
plasma && rm ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* && plasma (or replace .kde by .kde4) and say us if you have still a problem.

Cheers

(In reply to comment #13)
> Hello this should a problem coming from the packages you are using. Are you
> sure that your kde plasma-addons is updated too ? Which version the package say
> for it ?
> Which version you have for the kubunu-default-settings too ? it's adding some
> non officiel plasmoid to the default conf of plasma and perhaps they are not
> present anymore in 4.2 or not compatible
> 
> u can try :
> plasma && rm ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* && plasma (or replace .kde by .kde4)
> and say us if you have still a problem.
> 
> Cheers
> 

This didn't resolve the problem. I still get the same errors.

""This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find the requested component:null"."

this is obviously a downstream packaging issue.

note that binary compat was not kept between 4.1 and 4.2, so all applets need to be built against the new version.