Bug? with 10.11 Plasma/Plasmoids
Nigel Ridley
nigel at prayingforisrael.net
Thu Nov 17 11:54:00 UTC 2011
This is 10.11 Oneiric.
Before I file a bug I want to be able to narrow it down a bit and was wondering if anyone else
had noticed the following (or similar):
Woke up this morning to no internet connection and a dead plasma-desktop (it was black behind a
running Thunderbird window). At first I tried 'F2 > plasma-desktop' which sort of worked for a
moment then got 'stuck'. I couldn't access the 'logout' feature and resorted to 'Alt + Ctrl + F1'
to get to a tty and issued "sudo halt'. I rebooted the laptop, logged in and the plasma-desktop
got stuck again with the small 'desktop loading' splash screen stuck in the middle of a half
loaded desktop (I could see the kicker bar and a couple of non-kde apps running as well as a
couple of [internet accessing] plasmoids. The internet connection was still down. Couldn't do
anything - not even 'Alt + Ctrl + F1' so had to hit the power button.
I tried renaming, from tty1, .kde to kdeOLD and then .kdeGOOD to .kde then logged into kde but
still had the same problems. I then decided to start afresh and renamed.kde to kde01, then logged
back into a clean plasma-desktop :-)
When the internet connection came back on I then put things back the way they were with my backup
copy of my original .kde (with all my [internet accessing] plasmoids) and everything was OK again.
So why, when there is no internect connection, and [internet accessing] plasmoids running, does
plasma-desktop refuse to load properly?
Where would I look for a 'bug' and how to reproduce it?
Nigel
P.S. Sorry for the long explanation.
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