plasma crashing

[Karsten Loh]

Did you try booting from a live CD (or USB Stick)? If it crashes from
that as well it might not be a software problem.

Karsten
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On 02.06.2016 20:51, Homer wrote:
> Just ran the following
>
> sudo dpkg -1 | grep -i kde
> sudo dpkg -1 | grep -i plasma
>
> and through the magic of some output redirecting and file editing I
> purged everything and then ran:
>
> sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop plasma-desktop.
>
> Same problem exists.
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com
> <mailto:fsunoles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If I create a new user account the same thing happens when logging
>     in as the new user.
>
>     On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com
>     <mailto:fsunoles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         At this point I'm about ready to completely purge kde and
>         plasma and reinstall.  Is:
>
>         sudo apt-get autoremove kubuntu-desktop
>
>         The way to completely purge kde?  There is a lot of
>         conflicting info out there on how to remove kde.
>
>         On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com
>         <mailto:fsunoles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>             Also getting similar errors for:
>
>             ksmserver Bus error
>             kmix Bus error
>             krunner Bus error
>             kwin Bus error
>
>             Also I've noticed that /var keeps going to 100%.  I'm
>             running out of options to free up space there.
>
>             On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Homer <fsunoles at gmail.com
>             <mailto:fsunoles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                 FWIW the nasty gram is appearing again.  The error is:
>
>                 Executable: plasma-desktop PID: 4488 Signal:
>                 Segmentation fault (11) Time: 06/02/16 09:32:23 AM
>
>
>
>                 On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Homer
>                 <fsunoles at gmail.com <mailto:fsunoles at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>                     Kubuntu 14.04
>
>                     Hello.  Plasma suddenly started crashing this
>                     morning.  I was doing a little pre-work news
>                     reading with the chrome browser and suddenly I
>                     lost the desktop.  At that point I updated the
>                     computer and re-booted to the same result.  I
>                     tried logging in as a different user and more of
>                     the same.  I've tried renaming .kde to .kde_old
>                     but that doesn't help.  Searching the google
>                     doesn't find any recent postings on the subject. 
>                     I was getting a application crashed window popping
>                     up indicating a seg fault, but that isn't popping
>                     up now for some reason.
>
>                     That's about all I have at this moment.
>
>                     Cheers,
>                     Gary
>
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