KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes (Solved)

[coutts99]

Upgraded to KDE 4.2.1 this morning and now plasma always crashes.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Downgraded plasma to 4.2.0 for now.

[Ivanp]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

Same issue with the plasma crashes here. Running applications via ALT + F2. Although all I did this morning was to run Adept. How do I find which version of KDE am I on ? For sure it is 4.2. but whether it is 4.2.1. I do not know.

[Ivanp]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

I am on KDE 4.2.1. according to output of

kde4-config --version | grep KDE.

How did you go back to 4.2.0. ? I might well do the same since sudo apt-get update does not help.

[Nate]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

Don't forget the old standby to recover a broken plasma from the Alt-F2 box:

kquitapp plasma && rm ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* && plasma &

This will ensure that the problem is not your plasma config files that are causing plasma to crash.

[Guest]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

Yes. Confirmed. I am crashing as well. Output via syslog is:

plasma[5004]: segfault at 8 ip b65b0eba sp bff7d450 error4 in libQtCore.so.4.5.0[b644b000+238000]

[StarWolf]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

at least im not alone . i installed gnome just to be sure it wasn't the kernel. the command you gave doesn't fix it ? . reading this im unsure how to get old plasma back

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

reading this im unsure how to get old plasma back

Well, you could either downgrade back to 4.2.00 or wait for a fix to be issued. Such annoyances are generally fixed in a couple of days.

edit: seems it's an intrepid issue; no problems on jaunty

[Ivanp]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

And it is probably related to a special type of plasmoid perhaps desktop notes. The other user on the same machine but with a different set of plasmoids does not get any crashes.

[flying_icarus]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

Meh, my plasma started crashing after the upgrade, so far just once - the taskbar & desktop widgets froze for 30-40 seconds and then plasma crashed and restarted. Hopefully the packages get fixed, and this is not a regression we'll have to wait for 4.2.2 to be fixed...

[coutts99]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

Can anyone provide a full backtrace, I upgraded to Jaunty and this fixed the issue, but I have a bug open and can't get a full backtrace now.

[con]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

I have the same problem, after upgrade all my kde installs on different pc's are broken.

Have anybody found which package have to downgrade?

con

[coutts99]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

I have the same problem, after upgrade all my kde installs on different pc's are broken.

Have anybody found which package have to downgrade?

con

Hi

Can you install "kdelibs5-dbg" and "kdebase-workspace-dbg" and provide me with a full backtrace please?

[con]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

I had the last hours a lot of fun with upgrading my vm to jaunty. it didn't solve my problem. i have a copy of the vm which is one week old. i start them end make a upgrade to 4.2.1. if this upgrade fails too i can send you the logs.

con

[coutts99]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

I had the last hours a lot of fun with upgrading my vm to jaunty. it didn't solve my problem. i have a copy of the vm which is one week old. i start them end make a upgrade to 4.2.1. if this upgrade fails too i can send you the logs.

con

Yes please con, I just need a proper backtrace for the bug I reported.

Post backtrace on http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186197 if you can please.

[con]

Re: KDE 4.2.1 Plasma Crashes

sorry the upgrade works, my vm have now the latest updates and work. my notebook still have the problems i create a backtrace in the the evening.

con