On 08/04/2010 05:57 PM, Regis Matejcik wrote:

Did something fairly stupid.

Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.

As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.

As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.

I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like!

Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?

thanks

ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well!

For some strange reason it sounds like your window manager in kde4 is probably defaulting to 'metacity' instead of 'kwin' now. (I bet the window decorations look odd too). I have had that happen before with compiz. Log back into kde4 and open konsole or just use 'Alt+F2' to open the run dialog and type: 'kwin --replace &' (without quotes) That should get kwin back as your wm. Then either use konsole or Alt+F2 to restart plasma-desktop with the following 3 commands: kbuildsycoca4 kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1 (you can just cut & paste all 3 lines into konsole at once) I have to restart plasma so often, I just put that in a tiny script as such: #!/bin/bash kbuildsycoca4 kquitapp plasma-desktop >/dev/null 2>&1 kstart plasma-desktop & >/dev/null 2>&1 save it in ~/bin/rsplasma, then chmod 0754 bin/rsplasma and if you ever need to re-start plasma again, then just call the script with: rsplasma and you should be good to go. Note: my diagnosis of the original problem is just my best guess based on what you provided. If it doesn't work, post back and I or somebody will get it figured out :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 04/08/10 23:57, Regis Matejcik wrote:

Did something fairly stupid.

Needed to make some simple modifications to a .pdf document very quickly - the .pdf rendered poorly in OO Draw. Saw a post that said "Krita" rendered .pdf's better and decided I'd try it - via YAST.

As soon as I clicked the Krita box in YAST I entered dependency hell. I accepted three series of additional packages to install to solve dependency. Amazingly, it finally came up "clean" of dependency issues and I installed Krita.

As soon as I started Krita my plasma desktop crashed and I got this message:Executable: kdeinit4 PID: 13179 Signal: 11 (Segmentation fault) and the remaining desktop was some odd looking Gnome type screen.

I logged out and tried to log back in. First in KDE4 then in KDE4 safe mode. Both times with the same results. I tried a hard re-boot, same result. I logged back in with XFCE and everything appeared to be fine, except that it was XFCE - not KDE4 with plasma - which unlike many here - I really like!

Any hints on how to get KDE4 / Plasma back ?

thanks

ps. Krita really did render the .pdf quite well! Look in the file /var/log/zypp/history, the package installation history. If you could identify the packages that were installed/removed with krita (probably at the bottom, look at the timestamp) and report back we should be able to figure out the offending package.

Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org