Can login, but no KDE panel of desktop

[Michael Hirsch]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just grabbed the latest updates to my 14.10 installation and
> rebooted.  Now, when KDE starts I get no KDE panel and a black screen.
> My startup is working because I see my usual thuunderbird and chrome,
> but the panel with the K-menu is completely gone.  Also, my usual
> desktop and background is missing--it is pure black with no icons on
> it.
>
> Any idea what is wrong or how to reset it?  This is my work machine
> and I can't function like this.

Okay, I'm running again.  What I found was that in
.kde/share/autostart was a file plasma-netbook.desktop.  In that file
was the line
    Exec=plasma-netbook --desktop
I changed it to
    Exec=plasma-desktop
and now my startup works.

Strange.

Michael