Bug 378341

Summary: Missing desktop icons and taskbar after update
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: jgforbes <jgf>
Component: ContainmentAssignee: Sebastian Kügler <sebas>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major CC: kde, nate, rdieter
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.8.6   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Fedora RPMs   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: console output of running plasmashell after quiting it

Description jgforbes 2017-04-01 13:38:33 UTC 
Recent updates to Fedora 25 resulted in a blank desktop. The wallpaper is there; however, no other graphics are displayed on login.

Right clicking opens the menu; however, configure desktop tab opens a window titled Floder View Setting -- Plasma, but the window is empty or shows window that is behind it.

The mouse buttons work at the locations of the desktop icons and the taskbar.

More information:
]$ sudo kquitapp5 plasmashell 
"Application plasmashell could not be found using service org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication."

]$ sudo kquitapp plasmashell 
kquitapp(5118): "Application plasmashell could not be found using service org.kde.plasmashell and path /MainApplication."
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-04-01 14:55:53 UTC 
Can you run plasmashell from console and paste its output here?

(btw don't run kquitapp with sudo, it needs to be run as your user to find the dbus service on your session bus)
Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2017-04-01 22:19:03 UTC 
and fyi, don't use 'sudo' with kquitapp
Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2017-04-01 22:19:25 UTC 
(sorry, I missed the mention of that already)
Comment 4 jgforbes 2017-04-02 02:43:11 UTC 
Created attachment 104845 [details]
console output of running plasmashell after quiting it
Comment 5 jgforbes 2017-04-02 02:45:47 UTC 
I attached the output of running plasmashell after using kquitapp to stop it.
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2020-01-13 05:29:46 UTC 
I don't suppose this happened again on subsequent upgrades?
Comment 7 Bug Janitor Service 2020-01-28 04:33:13 UTC 
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Comment 8 Bug Janitor Service 2020-02-12 04:33:15 UTC 
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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