[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Black background with Suse 11.2 and KDE4
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:11 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 31. august 2010 15:45:32 skrev John G Walker:
I've been running KDE4 with Suse 11.2 for some months now, with no problems. Yesterday, the background to my screen suddenly went black. Open windows were unaffected, but I could see my theme, the task manager, etc. I couldn't open any programs other than the ones already open (and ones that they launch).
Anyone got any ideas? This is making things extremely difficult for me, to say the least. Rapid responses would be highly welcome!
Clearly plasma-desktop isn't running. Maybe it crashed. You can prolly try to restart 'plasma-desktop' by pressing Alt+F2 - which should also let you start other stuff, even though plasma-desktop is down.
Normally the recommendation would be to 'rm .kde4/share/config/plasma*' to "reset" plasma.
I will try the Alt-F2 and then deleting the files and get back to the list. The system is in another town and the guy pressing the buttons is not in yet.
But since your problem is apparently systemwide, it'd be interesting to know if you're using the official 11.2 KDE (4.3.5), or some other unsupported version from the OBS.
It is the KDE on the 11.2 install media. As I wrote, there have been no updates. Not even the one that the install offers to do (I will verify this last point). No repos other than what the install adds are defined. System-wide yes. Oddly, root no. You would think there was a clue here. But I never could see what it was. What confuses me is that we are doing out-of-the-box installs on new systems running on every day nvidia cards with common displays. I just cannot believe that we are the only ones seeing this. I could see if we were doing something odd. But these are just simple installs. It has happened at least 50% of the time. Can't see any common link in hardware. The systems are not exactly the same. But the problem is. I can attach a few small screen dumps if no one objects. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 08:06:15 Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 18:11 +0200, Martin Schlander wrote:
Tirsdag den 31. august 2010 15:45:32 skrev John G Walker:
I've been running KDE4 with Suse 11.2 for some months now, with no problems. Yesterday, the background to my screen suddenly went black. Open windows were unaffected, but I could see my theme, the task manager, etc. I couldn't open any programs other than the ones already open (and ones that they launch).
Anyone got any ideas? This is making things extremely difficult for me, to say the least. Rapid responses would be highly welcome!
Clearly plasma-desktop isn't running. Maybe it crashed. You can prolly try to restart 'plasma-desktop' by pressing Alt+F2 - which should also let you start other stuff, even though plasma-desktop is down.
Normally the recommendation would be to 'rm .kde4/share/config/plasma*' to "reset" plasma.
I will try the Alt-F2 and then deleting the files and get back to the list. The system is in another town and the guy pressing the buttons is not in yet.
But since your problem is apparently systemwide, it'd be interesting to know if you're using the official 11.2 KDE (4.3.5), or some other unsupported version from the OBS.
It is the KDE on the 11.2 install media. As I wrote, there have been no updates. Not even the one that the install offers to do (I will verify this last point). No repos other than what the install adds are defined.
I fixed a mis-packaging bug in our 11.3 packages, but it shouldn't have any relevance to KDE 4.3.5.
System-wide yes. Oddly, root no. You would think there was a clue here. But I never could see what it was.
What confuses me is that we are doing out-of-the-box installs on new systems running on every day nvidia cards with common displays. I just cannot believe that we are the only ones seeing this. I could see if we were doing something odd. But these are just simple installs. It has happened at least 50% of the time. Can't see any common link in hardware. The systems are not exactly the same. But the problem is.
I can attach a few small screen dumps if no one objects.
Please do - as usual, use an imagebin service or other image hosting, and mail the URLs. If that's a problem mail them me personally. Will -- Will Stephenson, KDE Developer, openSUSE Boosters Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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