[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"

[Darren Peets]

Doesn't quite fix it for me.

Purging and reinstalling snapd had no effect.

~/.local/share/plasma already had one thing in it, so I created a
variety of new links into /usr/share/plasma/*.  That gave me a KDE
splash screen, the popup about plasmashell being missing went away, and
the crash report dialog was for baloo-file instead of krunner.  Still no
taskbar, widgets, wallpaper, etc.

Creating a link for /var/lib/snapd/desktop/plasma or making the link and
purging and reinstalling snapd again (the link survived the purge) had
no effect.  So I still get to go through the same workaround
thunderbird>chromium>konsole>teamviewer>plasmashell.

After doing all this, the second instance of KDE lost its taskbar.  Had
to create it again from the right-click menu on the desktop.  The new
one looks different, so perhaps it was previously loading the 15.10
version somehow.

Also, when the second instance of X starts, the first thing that appears
is the login screen, which looks like the Kubuntu 15.10 version.  When I
lock the screen, I get the 16.04 screen locker.  The former displays the
time in a localized format based on the physical location of the
computer (China), the latter displays the time using the system
language/localization (Canadian English).

So I'm wondering if something moved around between the two versions, but
without updating an important config file somewhere.

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