[SOLVED] Plasma 6 upgrade issues - missing files

catcattycat · 2024-04-16 20:15:59

Issue description

I upgraded my system, and to Plasma 6 from Plasma 5 a few weeks ago, after not having run upgrades for ~1.5 months.

There were some upgrade errors that I resolved by deleting some conflicting files, but it looks like that wasn't the right move, and I've broken something. I don't remember the files anymore.

Since the upgrade, a bunch of things look off/broken. I've tried to fix it, but been unsuccessful, and would appreciate help fixing it.

Bottom panel issues

There is no spacing between taskbar icons in the bottom panel. The configuration setting for the spacing in icons only task manager does not do anything.

https://files.catbox.moe/uuwfxu.png

The configuration panel for the icons only task manager is blank:

https://files.catbox.moe/6uc5dv.png

The configuration menu for the bottom panel is missing:

https://files.catbox.moe/vupd2v.png

The panel should also be floating, but it's not.

Highlighting of UI elements is missing

Various UI elements should be highlighted when hovered over, or just highlighted (e.g. to indicate current day), but that doesn't happen.

https://files.catbox.moe/2wzzfc.png

Other various issues

The lock screen is extremely white - not sure how to get a screenshot. Spacing between UI elements generally is off, e.g. in the start menu screenshot the applications and shut down icons are touching the edge of the panel. The lock/shutdown/sleep menu is also missing highlighting.

It seems like I need to reinstall plasma fresh based on the number of different issues, but I'm not sure if that's right.

Things I've tried

Full system upgrade, a bunch of times:

pacman -Syu

Reinstalling plasma:

pacman -R plasma-meta && pacman -S plasma-meta

Neither had any effect.

Please let me know if I need to post any more info/logs/files/places I should look.

Thank you!

Mod edit: replaced oversized images with URLs. Please read the guidelines and adhere to the image posting rules. -- WorMzy

Last edited by catcattycat (2024-04-16 23:00:27)

WorMzy · 2024-04-16 21:02:46

catcattycat wrote:

There were some upgrade errors that I resolved by deleting some conflicting files, but it looks like that wasn't the right move, and I've broken something. I don't remember the files anymore.

Please post your pacman.log, the output of

# pacman -Qkk >/dev/null

and the output of

$ env | grep QT

(from within a plasma session)

catcattycat · 2024-04-16 21:15:43

Sorry about the oversized images, thanks for fixing that. I've looked through the guidelines. Also thank you for your reply!

Here's the pacman command output: https://0x0.st/X-CA.txt
The env output: https://0x0.st/X-Cm.txt
My pacman.log: https://0x0.st/X-Ca.txt

In the pacman command output I see a lot of lines like:

warning: libplasma: /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors (No such file or directory)

which seems like the issue?

Last edited by catcattycat (2024-04-16 21:16:12)

catcattycat · 2024-04-16 22:59:23

I was able to fix it!

Using pacman, I figured out which package provides "/usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors":

sudo pacman -Fy "/usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors"
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core is up to date
 extra is up to date
 multilib is up to date
 sublime-text is up to date
usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors is owned by extra/libplasma 6.0.3-1

From there, I reinstalled libplasma:

sudo pacman -S libplasma

This produced a warning for each missing file: "warning: could not get file information for usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme/breeze-dark/colors", so I reinstalled it once more just to be sure, and that printed no errors or warnings.

Then after reboot, plasma is working normally again.

Thank you WorMzy for the pointer!

I'm not sure why reinstalling plasma-meta didn't upgrade this package - I must have ran the wrong thing somehow.

Last edited by catcattycat (2024-04-16 23:01:19)

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