Is deleting  ̃/.kde4 an option? Be careful if you have many KDE applications settings, i.e. KTorrent. It will restore all KDE settings, maybe that works... Filling reports for KDE bugs under arch is kind of useless... traces are not useful for kde debuggers because the lack of debug packages. Does anybody know which packages are necessary to make good bug reports for KDE ? 2011/11/5 Lorenzo Bandieri

Hello archers,

Last massive KDE upgrade broke my KDE desktop. In particular, after the reboot, the panel was gone. I tried to "Add Panel": Default Panel crashes Plasma Shell;  Empty panel works. Then I added one by one the widget I had in my original panel (which was pretty standard). I determined that the "culprit" is task manager: when I try to add this widget, KDE crashes.

Any workaround?

Thanks,

Lorenzo

Hi Lorenzo, I updated today my KDE desktop and transparency in the panel is gone. Less troubles than you but... :P Tomorrow I should try to move my settings directory to a backup location and try in a clean environment. -- Bl@ster / dottorblaster

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Bjoern Franke wrote:

Hi,

Am Samstag, 5. November 2011, 18:06:41 schrieb Lorenzo Bandieri:

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Any workaround?

Do you see in .xsession-errors why the panel is crashing?

regards Bjoern

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I didn't have any problems with my upgrade, but I switch to smoothtasks as my task manager. You guys should give that a try. -- "Breathe Deeply and Dream"

This also means the issue is with the configs somewhere.

Yes, it's likely a config problems. Removing my ~/.kde4 prevents the crash.

Tomorrow I should try to move my settings directory to a backup location and try in a clean environment.

Hi Alessio! As I stated, I removed my ~/.kde4 and everything now seems normal. Probably in a clean environment your transparency will come back... at least, I hope so!

Do you see in .xsession-errors why the panel is crashing?

Hi Bjoern. I posted a mail with attached my .xsession-errors, but I guess my mail has to be approved yet (the attachment made the message body > 40 Kb, which means that I need moderator approval)... The errors that seem connected to the crash are: plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" plasma-desktop(968): ""geometry" - conversion of "62,0,0,0" to QRectF failed" Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed() link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected! link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected! However, I don't know how to interpret these. It seems a problem in resizing...

I didn't have any problems with my upgrade, but I switch to smoothtasks as my task manager. You guys should give that a try.

I'll give it a try, thanks :) Thanks to everyone for the reply. Best regards, Lorenzo

One or both of the following are confirmed to be affected:

plasma-desktoprc plasma-desktop-appletsrc

We don't need to remove/edit anything else. It's probably something about resized panels. Anyway this is just an FYI-update for anyone else facing this.

Thank you Ray.