Bug 203241

Summary:	Dashboard unavailable after reboot
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surleau>
Component:	dashboard	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, asraniel, ComputerDruid, richih-kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	4.6.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Emmanuel Surleau 2009-08-10 00:45:40 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

See also bug #203240, which happened at the same time.

Upon reboot, when using "Separate activities for each desktop", on one of my desktops:
- the dashboard was unavailable
- the cashew was gone

Comment 1 ComputerDruid 2010-01-03 22:45:27 UTC

What does dashboard unavailable mean?

What do you mean by "cashew"?

Is there any way you could try to reproduce it (with a new user account) or give instructions on how to reproduce it? Or try to give some more information as to what happened?

As it is, you've basically said "it all broke" without giving any leads as to where, why or how. Still helpful to report, i guess, but not easy to do anything about.

Side note: how did you reboot the computer? Is it possible that plasma died while the machine was shutting down and lost your settings?

Comment 2 Dario Andres 2010-01-12 18:03:51 UTC

Small note: the "cashew" is the Plasma Toolbox: http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Plasma_at_a_glance

Waiting for feedback from the reporter.

Comment 3 Emmanuel Surleau 2010-01-13 07:28:16 UTC

Sorry for not replying earlier, the automatic notification mail must have gotten lost in a flurry of KDE-related mails.

To clarify:

> What does dashboard unavailable mean?

Press plasma dashboard shortcut, nothing happens. I don't think "Add widgets" did much, but AFAIK, the widgets were still displaying on the desktop.

> What do you mean by "cashew"?

It is indeed the plasma toolbox.

> Is there any way you could try to reproduce it (with a new user account) or
> give instructions on how to reproduce it? Or try to give some more information
> as to what happened?

I'm afraid this was a once-in-a-very-rare while bug. Never happened again (on the other hand, bug #203240 reappeared a few times since).

> As it is, you've basically said "it all broke" without giving any leads as to
> where, why or how. Still helpful to report, i guess, but not easy to do
> anything about.

I completely understand your frustration, but I have no clue how to reproduce it either :(

> Side note: how did you reboot the computer? Is it possible that plasma died
> while the machine was shutting down and lost your settings?

AFAIK, normal shutdown. At a guess, there is some kind of race condition somewhere which gets triggered once in a blue moon.

Comment 4 Tommi Tervo 2011-05-14 08:56:59 UTC

*** Bug 273247 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-06-03 18:45:53 UTC

Is this still valid for KDE 4.8.3 or trunk?

Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 19:09:06 UTC

Hello! Plasma 4 was replaced by Plasma 5 four years ago by the KDE community. In that time we have made great strides in stability and functionality. We are closing all Plasma 4 bugs as most of them are no longer applicable to the new frameworks Plasma 5 is built upon. If you could, please re-test with the latest version of Plasma 5, and submit a new bug to "plasmashell" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!