[opensuse-kde] broken desktop after upgrade to KDE 4.3.5 from KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2
Hi all This morning I did the usual weekly "zypper up" to bring my desktop up to date. I am subscribed to KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2 repos, and until today I was a very happy user of KDE 4.3.4. However, it appears that KDE 4.3.5 packages had been pushed into KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2 without matching updates to playground and community repositories (in fact, there are no KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop and KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop repositories). As a result, after zypper up, I am left with an unusable desktop. After login, all I see is white background with a transparent container for each plasmoid. Each container contains a big red error button and the following error text "This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find requested component: folderview" (or "comic", or "calculator" or "nowplaying" or "weather".). There is no taskbar. Interestingly, some of the autostart programs have been started, in particular konsole (because I can switch to them via Alt-tab. When I try to restart plasma from konsole using "kquitapp plasma; plasma", it prints out the following message: <unknown program name>(32456)/: "application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication" plasma: command not found Does anyone have any ideas as to how to recover from this? Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Onsdag den 27. januar 2010 12:12:53 skrev Vadym Krevs:
This morning I did the usual weekly "zypper up" to bring my desktop up to date. I am subscribed to KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2 repos, and until today I was a very happy user of KDE 4.3.4.
However, it appears that KDE 4.3.5 packages had been pushed into KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2 without matching updates to playground and community repositories (in fact, there are no KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop and KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop repositories).
As a result, after zypper up, I am left with an unusable desktop. After login, all I see is white background with a transparent container for each plasmoid. Each container contains a big red error button and the following error text "This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find requested component: folderview" (or "comic", or "calculator" or "nowplaying" or "weather".). There is no taskbar.
Interestingly, some of the autostart programs have been started, in particular konsole (because I can switch to them via Alt-tab. When I try to restart plasma from konsole using "kquitapp plasma; plasma", it prints out the following message:
<unknown program name>(32456)/: "application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication" plasma: command not found
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to recover from this?
The usual... Try if it happens to a new user too - to find out if you have systemwide breakage, or just your user settings. If it's your user settings then you may want to issue a "resetplasma": 'kquitapp plasma-desktop && rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop* && plasma- desktop &' You also may want to use 'zypper dup -r <kde4-stable-repo-alias>' or use yast for these kinds of updates - since 'zypper up' doesn't handle "red packages", vendor changes or other funny stuff that comes with using OBS repos. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
2010/1/27 Martin Schlander
Onsdag den 27. januar 2010 12:12:53 skrev Vadym Krevs:
This morning I did the usual weekly "zypper up" to bring my desktop up to date. I am subscribed to KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2, KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2 repos, and until today I was a very happy user of KDE 4.3.4.
However, it appears that KDE 4.3.5 packages had been pushed into KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2 without matching updates to playground and community repositories (in fact, there are no KDE:/KDE4:/Community/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop and KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_11.2_KDE4_STABLE_Desktop repositories).
As a result, after zypper up, I am left with an unusable desktop. After login, all I see is white background with a transparent container for each plasmoid. Each container contains a big red error button and the following error text "This object could not be created for the following reason: Could not find requested component: folderview" (or "comic", or "calculator" or "nowplaying" or "weather".). There is no taskbar.
Interestingly, some of the autostart programs have been started, in particular konsole (because I can switch to them via Alt-tab. When I try to restart plasma from konsole using "kquitapp plasma; plasma", it prints out the following message:
<unknown program name>(32456)/: "application plasma could not be found using service org.kde.plasma and path /MainApplication" plasma: command not found
Does anyone have any ideas as to how to recover from this?
The usual...
Try if it happens to a new user too - to find out if you have systemwide breakage, or just your user settings.
If it's your user settings then you may want to issue a "resetplasma": 'kquitapp plasma-desktop && rm ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop* && plasma- desktop &'
You also may want to use 'zypper dup -r <kde4-stable-repo-alias>' or use yast for these kinds of updates - since 'zypper up' doesn't handle "red packages", vendor changes or other funny stuff that comes with using OBS repos.
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Hi Martin Thank you for your advice. You're right - I managed to resolve the problem by starting yast and selecting All Packages ->Update if new version is available. That selected a dozen packages from KDE:/KDE4:/STABLE:/Desktop/openSUSE_11.2 which had been missed by zypper up (kdebase4-runtime, kdelibs4, kdelibs4-core,kdelib4-doc,kdepimlibs4,libaconadi,libkde4,libkde4-devel,libkdecore4,libkdecore4-devel,libkdepimlibs4,python-kde4). I forced the upgrade and restarted KDE and that fixed it. Strangely enough though, there did not seem anything special about those packages or their version numbers. Yast showed them as "blue packages", all "Installed" package versions were of the "4.3.4-x.y" format while all "(Available)" packages versions were of the "4.3.5-x.y" format. Perhaps I am missing something, but shouldn't "zypper up" be equivalent to what Yast does when "Update if new version is available" is selected? Regards, Vadym -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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