Just a guess, but when I've had similar issues before it turned out that my partition with /var was full (probably due to /var/cache/pacman/pkg). This seems to cause random failures in KDE without sensible error messages. Worth a look?
lol you were right. 0 bytes left on the '/' partition due to left over packages in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. There was no warning message from the system.
Thanks everyone.
]]>i just ran a "pacman -Syu" on my system and there were lots of kde packages selected for an update. But now the whole desktop is broken. Everytime i log in i'm presented with a white screen an a few broken plasmoids. There is nothing else on the screen, just white. A reboot didn't help either.
Is there anyone with the same problem and/or a solution?
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