[Solved] KDE 4 broken after system update: kwin closed unexpectedly

snoxu · 2014-12-08 03:12:40

After a system updated my KDE 4 system is broken.

All I get is a kde dialog message saying: kwin closed unexpectedly

Have no real clue what actually broke it.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by snoxu (2014-12-08 10:33:05)

fukawi2 · 2014-12-08 03:29:23

You could start by giving us a list of exactly what packages were updated, including the old and new versions (/var/log/pacman.log)

snoxu · 2014-12-08 03:41:44

Here it is:

arojas · 2014-12-08 09:03:58

Also: make sure that your /var partition is not full and try with a clean user.

snoxu · 2014-12-08 09:22:54

My /var may have been full. I wasn't really paying attention during the update. How do I know if anything went wrong?

arojas · 2014-12-08 09:36:30

The problem is not whether it was full during the update, but whether it is full now KDE doesn't work with a full /var partition

snoxu · 2014-12-08 09:48:21

I issued:

paccache -r

and I have 2,2 GiB free of a total of 8,7 GiB, but KDE remained broken

snoxu · 2014-12-08 10:32:00

Nevermind the pacman cache cleanup fixed the problem.

My KDE session is back. My panel went missing, but I,ve already added a new one.

Marking this topic solved.

Thanks to for everyone quick help

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