Bug 202730

Summary:	Desktop is corrupt and shifted to one side; Panel missing
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	William Kendrick <nbs>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, jetrull
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	Screenshot of the broken-looking desktop after upgrading to KDE 4.3 and moving ~/.kde out of the way

Description William Kendrick 2009-08-06 01:14:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

I followed the instructions to upgrade to KDE 4.3 on Kubuntu 9.04 and rebooted. Upon login, I was stuck at a screen with the KDM desktop background, a thin, shifted slice of a desktop, panel and Plasma 'cashew' at the top left, and a panel at the bottom.

The bottom panel's systray was empty. Clicking items in the panel (e.g., K menu, trash icon, etc.) caused pop-ups to appear at the upper left side, near the broken-looking view of a desktop.

Following the suggestion of folks in #kde on irc.freenode.net, I moved my ~/.kde out of the way and logged back in. It just hung with the KDM background.  I zapped (Ctrl+Alt+Bksp) X and logged in again.

This time, I got the default KDE background, but also shifted to one side, wrapping around.  A thin checkerboard appears down most of the left-of-middle of the screen. (I will attach a screenshot.)

I see no panel.  At this point, I'm going to try and downgrade back to KDE 4.2.x, since it was working sufficiently well.  Thanks and good luck!

Comment 1 William Kendrick 2009-08-06 01:17:18 UTC

Created attachment 35890 [details]
Screenshot of the broken-looking desktop after upgrading to KDE 4.3 and moving ~/.kde out of the way

Comment 2 Jeff Trull 2010-01-03 19:36:31 UTC

Have you tried upgrading to Kubuntu Karmic 9.10?  It uses KDE 4.3.2, and I don't observe this problem there.  Also, can you specify (link) which directions you followed to do the upgrade - perhaps they were faulty.

Comment 3 William Kendrick 2010-01-03 19:57:48 UTC

Apologies. I forget precisely what I did, but I got it working soon after reporting the bug, and apparently forgot to add a comment here and close it.

Checking logs of my own conversation on #kde on irc.freenode.net from back in August, it looks like I simply needed to do a number of apt-get update/upgrade cycles and it eventually 'caught up' and began working right.

Closing this as resolved/invalid.
Thanks!