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cbecker

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Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Plasma 5 broken

Hi all, I did an update today and Plasma doesn't start anymore, though X is there.

Once in Xorg, I can open a terminal and some weird things happen:

~  > systemsettings5 
zsh: exec format error: systemsettings5

~  > ls /usr/bin/systemsettings5 -l
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 May 10 08:02 /usr/bin/systemsettings5 

and plasma doesn't start either:

~  > plasmashell 
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/cjb/.cache/ksycoca5"
populateAddPanelsMenu 1
QQmlComponent: Component is not ready
Error:  file:///usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/loader.qml:1:1: Expected token `numeric literal' 
      
     ^
Error:  file:///usr/share/plasma/shells/org.kde.plasma.desktop/contents/loader.qml:1:1: Expected a qualified name id 
      
     ^
We have no shell handlers installed
Application::crashHandler() called with signal 6; recent crashes: 1
/usr/bin/plasmashell  --crashes 1 &
KCrash: Application 'plasmashell' crashing...

Any ideas what to check?
Thanks!

Last edited by cbecker (2015-05-12 13:35:13)

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,098

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma 5 broken

Looks like a broken installation. Try reinstalling the plasma group

cbecker

Member

Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma 5 broken

Thanks, I tried

sudo pacman -S plasma

but I get that files exist already in the file system, for example

plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/1638x1024.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/1680x1050.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/1920x1080.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/1920x1200.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/640x480.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/images/800x600.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/contents/screenshot.jpg exists in filesystem
plasma-workspace-wallpapers: /usr/share/wallpapers/Whisker_Grass/metadata.desktop exists in filesystem

Shall I use --force? could there be something else going on?
Thanks.

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,098

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma 5 broken

That confirms that you have a broken installation. You can use --force to reinstall plasma, but probably all packages that were updated in the same transaction are also broken

cbecker

Member

Registered: 2012-12-30

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Plasma 5 broken

yes, exactly :S
I am re-installing all of them. The problem was that my computer crashed after re-installing them and I had to do a hard-reboot, now it all makes sense.
Thanks!