Bug? with 10.11 Plasma/Plasmoids

[uteck]

If you are still using the default network manager, have you tried
replacing it?  My desktop at home has a static IP and works fine and my
laptop runs wicd which I think is more stable then network mangler.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:25 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've noticed this. I think there are two bugs.
>
> Firstly I notice on a couple of machines that the internet connection will
> refuse to come up if I do a 'Restart'. Only a full power-off power-on cycle
> works. I initially logged a bug about this in the Beta relating to there
> being no ethernet after resume from sleep but there's been no activity on
> it from the devs and I gave up. It's a bug in network manager and it was
> working in the early Betas but got broken about a week before release.
>
> The thing with the plasmoids is trickier to track down. Again, this has
> only started recently (it doesn't happen on my natty machine running the
> same version of KDE) so I suspect it's something lower down and not a
> problem with plasma itself.
>
> In your case your internet connection simply died overnight. I've not
> noticed this (was it wired or wireless? I don't use wireless as it's been
> flaky beyond belief since natty). Given what I've uncovered about network
> manager recently I wonder if your network controller has some kind of
> power-save mode it slips into after a long period of inactivity -this could
> potentially invoke the same bug I've found with sleep mode.
>
> Mark
>
> On 17 Nov 2011, at 11:54, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>
> > 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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