Installing Acroreader has broken KDE5

[pnunn]

Just in the process of re-setting up my laptop after installing 15.04. Got as far as trying to install acroreader and boom... plasmashell is now dead in the water.

When I try and start it from the command line I get

plasmashell
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
QCoreApplication:ostEvent: Unexpected null receiver

Kate gives

kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
kate: Warning, session file not found: "/home/pnunn/.local/share/kate/anonymous.katesession"

and systemsettings pops up "Nothing to display" and closes.

Firefox has its initial tabs in what looks to be arebic ...

SIGH.. any ideas how to get this working again? Really can't afford to re-install again.

Ta

Peter.

[pnunn]

I just discovered that if I sudo plasmashell, it starts (no panel though, but it can be started from the cashue). Also, settings have no icons, nor do most of the menu items, this is VERY annoying.

Any ideas, I'm guessing from this behaviour that it must be a permissions thing. I will try adding a new user and see what happens.

P.

[pnunn]

Ok, new user seems to be working fine. SO.... it's probably a permissions thing, but I don't know where. Sooo what's the easiest way to migrate the settings from the old to the new (or is there a better way). The other odd thing is that I don't seem to be able to save any settings. When I try and log out of either session or shut down the system just hangs with a black screen.

[ronw]

If you issued a 'sudo plasmashell', you probably munged permissions in your home folder. GUI programs should only be started with kdesudo.

I would start with $ sudo chown -R yourusername:yourusername * while in your home directory to get permissions right.

I've seen the logout stalling at a black screen. Likely just beta-ness. My solution: Ctl+Alt+F2, then $ sudo service sddm restart.

[pnunn]

Thanks for the input ronw. Tried chown but still no joy sadly. When I try and start plasmashell from the borked user I get

plasmashell
Failed to establish shared memory mapping, will fallback to private memory -- memory usage will increase
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver

[pnunn]

Back up and running again for the moment. I swapped the userid and groupid between the two users and copied over all the stuff I needed from the old user, set up mail and desktop again and touch wood seem to be working again. Would really like to know what happened to the old user ID though so havn't blown it away totally yet.

[SteveRiley]

The last time Adobe supplied a package for Ubuntu's Partner repository was 13.04 (Raring). Adobe removed Linux from the "other versions" download page. One can only conclude that the Linux version of Adobe Reader is no longer supported. I downloaded the package and looked at the installer's postinst file. Judging from the errors in your post #1, I suspect that whatever Adobe is doing to set up icons interferes with Plasma's theme in such a way that it causes the breakage you're seeing.

Time to move over to Okular, it seems.

[pnunn]

Yep SteveRiley. Not been game to try the install again. Most things are now working on 15.04 happily now (a few issues with X still and some issues with resuming) but time to do a full system backup me thinks.

[okie2003]

Time to move over to Okular, it seems.

I have been thinking about this for a while. Maybe this is not the right thread, but does Okular support filling in forms and does it support booklet printing?

[ronw]

I have been thinking about this for a while. Maybe this is not the right thread, but does Okular support filling in forms and does it support booklet printing?

I can fill in most PDF forms I come across with Okular. The times I have trouble, it is obviously the form creator playing with some feature in Acrobat; like embedded javascript (points angry finger at USCIS).

I don't know what booklet printing is.

Staying on thread topic? Meh, thread drift is part of the zen of KFN.

[okie2003]

Thanks for the information. I use that for government forms and last time I tried it didn't work.

I don't know what booklet printing is.

Booklet printing is the automatic ordering of the printed document pages to form a booklet. Lets say a 20 page document is created in Scribus and the pages are 5.5 x 8.5 inches. With booklet printing Adobe Reader will automatically sort them and print the proper page in the proper place on landscape 8.5 x 11 sheets. It might be page one and 20 on side A of sheet one and 2 and 19 on side B of sheet 1. Sheet 2 side A would be page 3 and 18 and side B, 4 & 17. And so forth. Really slick. Last time I checked Scribus did not have a booklet printing option because it was not needed.

Sadly it does not appear Okular has this.