Bug 345103

Summary:	KDE Freeze's When the Default Splash Screen Is Loaded
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Jordyn Carattini <jordyncarattini>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	crash	CC:	bshah, mail, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Jordyn Carattini 2015-03-12 23:48:24 UTC

When I Install Kubuntu And I Reboot From The Hard Drive,
It Will Boot Up And I Will Enter My Password And Then The Spash Sceen Freeze's At The Desktop Icon On The Spash Screen

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot My PC
2. Login
3. Then It Freeze's

Actual Results:  
It Still Froze

Expected Results:  
The Spash Screen Should Have Loaded Fully And Then KDE Should Boot Up

Comment 1 Jordyn Carattini 2015-03-13 00:53:32 UTC

System Info:
Dell Latitude D820
Intel Core Duo 2 2.66 Ghz (With VT-X SSE 1,2 And 3 With NX Bit And PAE)
4024MB (4GB) DDR2 Dual Channel Mode 
nVidia G72M (GeForce Go 7400)
7400 RPM Seagate HDD (Not SSD)

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2015-03-13 08:14:06 UTC

This is from a clean installation?
What version?

Comment 3 Jordyn Carattini 2015-03-13 21:52:40 UTC

This Is From A Clean Installation
And Kubuntu 14.10 x86

Comment 4 mail 2015-03-28 22:29:49 UTC

I have the same error here. The first login after a clean installation of Kubuntu beta 2 is no problem. After rebooting I can't get plasmashell to start properly. The Splash-Screen takes really long to vanish and afterwards only the Programms, assigned to Autostart are showing up, but no panel or anything else shows up. I can start the Starter (Alt-F2) but it doesn't respond to any command written into. 
Deleting ~/.local, ~/.kde, ~/.cache and ~/.config makes it possible to login again, but obiously all the data and settings are defaulted.

Comment 5 David Edmundson 2015-03-28 23:57:18 UTC

look for a .cache/something.lock file

Comment 6 mail 2015-03-29 09:13:23 UTC

Theres no such file. Deleting the config folder bringe plasmashell back to Start so it must be a file inside .config vor am I wrong Herr?

Comment 7 mail 2015-03-30 21:24:22 UTC

Update: As the bug continued to bother me I did a deeper investigation and found out that i can login without freezing plasmashell after deleting ~/ .local/share/kscreen . there is only one file in there called abc3ad359db5651344cef45b894ddb4a . 
Maybe this helps to solve the Problem?

Comment 8 Jordyn Carattini 2015-04-02 05:13:12 UTC

I Found A Fix After Instalation I Have To Boot It The Flag nomodeset
And Install The Package nvidia-304 (My Graphics Driver From nVidia)
Then Reboot Without The nomodeset Flag
And Thank's For All Y'all Help

Comment 9 mail 2015-04-02 06:30:22 UTC

Good to know that you found a solution. I'm struggling with it the whole time. All my trys from up above are useless, it's still freezing.
I use xfce right now which works for me...