Bug 189559

Summary:	black or white kde desktop after starting the system
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	cyberschorschl <cyberschorschl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aseigo, cyberschorschl, finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description cyberschorschl 2009-04-13 20:28:38 UTC

Version:           kde (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Hi, 

I have installed OpenSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.1 and updated to 4.2.2
My hardware is an IBM Thinkpad T43 Notebook with 2.0 GHz and 1 GB RAM and 160 GB HDD.

After installing the system and first start, the kde Desktop works fine, but after this, it works not any more.

After the system start, there is a black or white kde screen and i can't see anything on the desktop no icons or applications for example, i can only hear the sount of startup and shut down. Only i can see is the mouse and i can move it around the screen, also it is possible to shut down the system by pressing control + delete.

Now for short help by my selfe, i work with the GNU desktop, this works very well, but i wish to work with the KDE desktop after bug fixies.

Got some one a idea how i can fix this problem?

Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-04-13 23:34:19 UTC

It seems like plasma has not been started... did kde work before update to 4.2.2?

Can you try a new clean user account too?

Comment 2 cyberschorschl 2009-04-14 20:40:22 UTC

Hello FiNeX,

thanks for your answer, you are right, i tried to logon the first time under the root account and the KDE-desktop started very well. I retry it a second time under the root account and it works still. After this i tried with my old account and the KDE-desktop didn't start again same failure as bevore under my account.

I had the same problem before with the 4.2.1 i thought i can fix the bug  by updating to 4.2.2 

Did you have any idea to fix it?

Best regards from germany

Cyberschorschl

Comment 3 FiNeX 2009-04-15 14:18:43 UTC

The plasma config files probably are corrupted. One drastical fix is to delete plasma configuration files on your home directory, but maybe someone else could suggest a better solution.

Comment 4 Aaron J. Seigo 2009-05-27 01:35:12 UTC

yes, almost certainly something like a binary incompatible widget that is still around. we don't have this problem anymore as libplasma is now maintaining binary compatibility between releases.

removing ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc  should resolve the issue in this particular case.