[Solved] KDE5, kickstart is empty

TheSaint · 2018-01-31 12:30:08

Hello forum,

I'm fairly unaware where to look for a solution. It's some week that I start KDE and Kickstart Kickoff has nothing remembered, just the applications are listed. History and frequently used are gone as soon as I leave a session.
I doubt that is related to the time I moved the system to SSD. Probably the $HOME/.cache is not maintained between sessions.

Last edited by TheSaint (2018-02-12 17:04:24)

TheSaint · 2018-02-04 19:05:01

Strangely, nobody faced this problem......

WorMzy · 2018-02-04 19:21:17

Don't bump.

Perhaps you could explain what "kickstart" is.

Also check that you own everything in your home directory, and the permissions aren't messed up

find ~ ! -user $UID
find ~ -type d ! -executable -or -type d ! -writable -or -type d ! -readable
find ~ -type f ! -readable -or -type f ! -writable

Note: there may be false positives, e.g. git files.

TheSaint · 2018-02-07 15:46:13

I didn't intentionally bumped it. I just liked to know if there could be an answer. So I'm sorry if somebody got hurt.

Kickstart is the icon in KDE where we can access for all application menu.

OK, here are the results:

$ find ~ -type f ! -readable -or -type f ! -writable
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2_private': Permission denied                             
find: '/home/myself/.dbus': Permission denied                                       
/home/myself/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/h0e1dB/img0.jpg                            
/home/myself/.cache/vmware/drag_and_drop/fd60jY/img0.jpg                            
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2': Permission denied

$ find ~ -type d ! -executable -or -type d ! -writable -or -type d ! -readable                                                                          
/home/myself/.gnome2_private                                                        
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2_private': Permission denied                             
/home/myself/.dbus                                                                  
find: '/home/myself/.dbus': Permission denied
/home/myself/.gnome2
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2': Permission denied

$ find ~ ! -user $UID
/home/myself/.gnome2_private
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2_private': Permission denied
/home/myself/.xinitrc
/home/myself/.dbus
find: '/home/myself/.dbus': Permission denied
/home/myself/.xsession
/home/myself/.gnome2
find: '/home/myself/.gnome2': Permission denied

$ sudo ls -l .dbus
total 4
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Nov  8 03:16 session-bus

The strange is that once a session is started then the history and "frequently used" will be updated.
I think I understood that those denied access should be denied.

EDIT
Anyways, I changed the ownership for all the listed directories, but no improvements.

Last edited by TheSaint (2018-02-08 06:45:32)

WorMzy · 2018-02-09 09:04:38

Mod note: So it's definitely not an installation issue. Moving to NC.

Please post the output of

echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
ls -l ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

TheSaint · 2018-02-11 02:27:24

$ echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
unix:path=/run/user/1001/bus
$ ls -l ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel
-rw------- 1 myself users 55021 11 feb 02.49 /home/myself/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

I'm getting used of such strange behaviour, so I didn't pose a hurry. But it's rather a bother that all memorization disappear every new session. That is not only in Kickstart, also other program are left in the dark.

B1omman · 2018-02-11 06:16:15

Every session? Do you use /etc/fstab and services for supporting shared folders in vmware? If so, show us the things.

Otherwise, I suggest you fix the dependencies and do a reboot, then check the output from:

# journalctl -b-1 -e
and
# journalctl -b

just grep for vmware and dbus.

arojas · 2018-02-11 10:02:18

You mean ''kickoff'', not ''kickstart''. Try

mv ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd{,.backup}

TheSaint · 2018-02-12 16:30:36

arojas wrote:

You mean ''kickoff'', not ''kickstart''.

Oh yeah!
There was some kick in that word

EDIT
Even removing that directory I didn't get better. I just end the session to test the result, the problem persist.

@B1omman
You were right!

$ susy disable vmware-hostd       ## [susy = sudo systemctl]
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/vmware-hostd.service.

Now it seems to have the memory back for good

Last edited by TheSaint (2018-02-12 17:02:12)

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[Solved] KDE5, kickstart is empty

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