Bug? with 10.11 Plasma/Plasmoids

[Nigel Ridley]

On 11/17/2011 04:33 PM, uteck wrote:
> 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.

It was an external network problem and not connected to Kubuntu. There was simply no connection 
to connect to.

Nigel

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