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    After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

    So, I upgraded yesterday on one of my computers, and today when I turned this computer and tried to log into KDE it simply loaded the new default wallpaper, informed me that something had crashed (clicking on the notification didn't pop up any further details or dialogs) and . . . that's it. The desktop isn't even right-clickable, so it would seem like it's Plasma that's borked to some degree. Luckily everything OTHER than KDE itself (yes, I'm using KDE to refer to the desktop environment, I know that's not the "official" nomenclature these days) seems to work fine; I'm writing this in Rekonq, from an Openbox session where Xcompmgr is providing the graphical snazziness, using Yakuake and KRunner, etc etc.

    Any ideas what might be failing? In all honesty, I could probably get by with just Openbox from now until forever, but I tend to run the full KDE shebang on my other primary computer, and if I don't know what went wrong here and how to fix it then I'm pretty nervous about upgrading the other one.

    KDE 4 has always had ridiculously bad errors in regards to dual-monitor setups, at least in my experience, and but that's the only commonality; hardware-wise, this computer is a late-2006 17" iMac, which means an Intel 2GHz Core2Duo T7200 for the CPU (on which I'm running 64-bit), I upgraded it cheaply to 4GB of RAM in total, and the GPU is an ATI X1600m...which is an astonishingly bad graphics card, in many respects, but can actually play Starcraft 2 perfectly fine on the lowest possible graphics level, and with tweaking has been able to handle KDE's desktop effects fine, so I luckily don't need any more than that. And yeah, I have a nice big 1920x1080 secondary monitor hooked up via DVI (the built-in 17" screen is 1440x900).

    So. Yeah. That's all the pertinent details I can think of. Any thoughts? Is there an error log that KDE keeps that I should be checking? (I never remember heading about one, but perhaps it's slipped me by all these years.)

    #2
    Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

    Check to see if plasma-desktop is installed.

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      #3
      Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

      Astonishingly, it wasn't That's an interesting and rather big upgrade fail there! (Maybe thanks to how I was using the official Kubuntu PPA for 4.6?)

      Embarassing that I didn't think of that, especially since I just recommended to someone in another thread to make sure kubuntu-desktop was installed, hah.

      And in fact, kubuntu-desktop isn't installed either. I obviously should've taken a closer look at the packages that it wanted to uninstall during the upgrade . . . merely installing plasma-desktop has only progressed the KDE session to the point at which I can now add icons (edit: by which I mean plasmoids/widgets), nothing else is working yet (not even launching applications) and it's still refusing to respect my settings in terms of dual-monitors, as is KDM. Time to struggle with dependencies and see if once everything's properly installed these problems magically vanish...

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        #4
        Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

        Still no luck getting a working KDE session, even with everything installed properly now.

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          #5
          Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

          wtf?
          apt has been having a fit during this Kubuntu cycle. wizard1000 from the forums had it uninstall the entire desktop once and attempt to do so the second time.

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            #6
            Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

            Yeah, it uninstalled my entire KDE when I did the upgrade. I just assumed it was because I was using a version more recent than the Natty default.

            Anyway, to the topic creator, try installing kubuntu-desktop and see if that fixes it. It'll give you all the default apps, but it should pull in whatever is missing (if anything).

            You could also, try renaming your .kde folder to something like ".kde-old" then restarting KDE to get everything back to its default (it'll recreate the folder).

            If neither of those work then I'm pretty much out of ideas because one of those usually does it for me (I've had trouble moving from one KDE version to another in the past).

            Good luck.

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              #7
              Re: After upgrade, KDE desktop doesn't load (wallpaper appears, but nothing else)

              Yeah, I already installed kubuntu-desktop, and all its dependencies; that didn't fix anything at all. Removing/renaming the .kde folder isn't an option; too many apps I have settings for. I tend to use Openbox anyways these days (KDE4 isn't nearly as stable or quick as KDE3.5, after all) so as long as the apps work fine in Openbox---which they do---it's not TOO big of a problem that KDE itself isn't working. Annoying, yes, but Choqok and Rekonq and Klipper and Krunner, and etc etc, work fine in Openbox . . . and if sadly the Kubuntu/KDE folks can't provide a working desktop for my system, that's unfortunate, but I can live.

              So, yeah. Anyone have any ideas less drastic (or more specific) than "remove all your settings"?

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