Plasma starting crashing on launch

[Paul Kaplan]

Here's an interesting observation...I just returned to another laptop, this 
one with ATI M7500 graphics and an otherwise nearly identical software setup.  
kde 4.2.1 is working fine.  The offending machine of earlier posts has Intel 
i915 graphics.

Someone mentioned that they lost plasma when they disconnected an external 
monitor (as did I although I thought it temporally related to an update), so I 
wonder whether the problem is related to the persistent problems kde4 seems to 
be having with X when using multiple problems; this particular annoyance 
related to the intel driver?  What hardware setups were people using and has 
anyone yet solved the problem (without upgrading to intrepid)?
P

On Friday 13 March 2009 01:57:59 pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> I invoked the nuclear option but no solution. I reinstalled 8.10 and after
> applying all the updates the problem re-appeared (although I left my home
> directory intact). Apparently something in the current kde 4.2 packages is
> borked.
>
> So unless some brave soul wants to try the kde 4.2.2 update in 3 weeks, we
> (I) will have to wait until Jaunty is released in 6 weeks.
>
> P
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pkaplan1 at comcast.net
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Cc: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:35:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Plasma starting crashing on launch
>
>
> In the last 24 hours something happened to my 8.10 system running kde
> 4.2.1. Whenever I login I get an error that plasma has crashed. All I see
> is a blank desktop. I can run apps from krunner, but no panels, cashews,
> plasmoids or right-clicking.
>
> Backtrace shows nothing. Replacing ~/.kde doesn't help. Logging in as a
> different user doesn't help
>
> Has anyone else experienced this? Is it due to a rogue package upgrade?
>
> Any thoughts on fixing other than reinstalling 8.10?
>
> TIA
> Paul
>
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