On 05/31/2012 02:36 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have an openSUSE 11.2 system running KDE 4.6. For one user, the plasma desktop crashes when they log in, resulting in a useless desktop. A new user works fine. So, I thought it would be useful to delete
/tmp/kde-user*
/var/tmp/kdecache-user*
Nope. That did not solve it. What else might make plasma desktop fail for a single user?
I won't necessarily be able to give the best technical advice, but maybe we can get you started here on something. I had a technical guy, well versed in opensuse that used to often contribute to this list, tell me once that if KDE was unstable, he would delete not only the user and the cache directory, but also the files in the socket directory. I tried this once when my system was slowing down significantly, and it did help. But rather than going through root, as you did, I followed the linked directories from the /home/user/.kde4 directory /home/user/.kde4/cache-user /home/user/.kde4/socket-user /home/user/.kde4/tmp-user It shouldn't matter which path you use to get to the contents, of course. When I did it, I only deleted the files and not the subdirectories, as that would have erased all my user settings. Another test you might do is create a completely new user, and see if the desktop crashes when that one logs in. And then for those of you with more experience out there, does anyone remember a bug in an older distribution that caused a desktop crash with multiple user accounts? If so, perhaps chasing down the details of that bug might help Roger to know whether or not he really should upgrade the distribution. My desktop was crashing quite often recently until I put on the proprietary nvidia video driver. So the video driver might have something to do with it. -- G.O. Box #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | nVidia C61 GeForce 7025 | 4GB RAM Box #2 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Pentium 4 (2core) | 32 | Intel 82915G | 2GB RAM Lap #1: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.3 | Core2 Duo T8100 | 64 | Intel 965GM | 4GB RAM Lap #2: 12.1 | KDE 4.8.2 | Core Duo T2400 | 32 | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 120 | 2GB RAM learning openSUSE and loving it -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org