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the_inq

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From: Aachen, Germany

Registered: 2009-07-24

Posts: 13

KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

Hi everyone! There have been several mentions of issues with KDE 4.7 relating to wallpapers and the like but I'd like to draw your attention to the random crashes of the Plasma desktop every 4-5 hours of usage. Ist anyone experiencing something similar? Any workarounds?

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hussam

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Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 572

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Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

It crashes on logging off here which makes it hard to send a bug report.
KDE 4.7 has several regressions so far mainly in plasma and kdelibs. I've reported a few so far.

ChoK

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From: France

Registered: 2008-10-01

Posts: 346

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

No problem here.

Check your .xession-errors from a tty, it may contain useful debug information

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bendersteed

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From: Greece

Registered: 2010-10-18

Posts: 85

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

Not experiencing this problem here too, have you tried with a clean test account or after backing up and temporarily removing the .kde4 folder in your home?

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mjn

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Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 7

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

plasma-desktop crashes on login here after upgrading to 4.7

Odd thing is that starting it again from a terminal will sometimes (very rarely) start fine and not crash, then it's stable for the whole session.

Will try on a new account and/or submit a bug report later when I have some free time.

In case it helps here's what plasma-desktop throws when started from a terminal:

QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::Changed()
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QGridLayoutEngine::addItem: Cell (1, 1) already taken
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_34_ hasn't been detected!
link XMLID_36_ hasn't been detected!
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
looking for XML source files and trying to load them...
successfully parsed daemons-common.xml (16 services).
successfully parsed less-common.xml (4 services).
successfully parsed tools-settings.xml (5 services).
successfully parsed custom.xml (3 services).
Object::connect: No such slot AbstractItemView::iconSettingsChanged(int)
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
QGraphicsLinearLayout::insertItem: cannot insert null item
Object::connect: No such slot AbstractItemView::iconSettingsChanged(int)
[mjn@box ~]$ plasma-desktop(3219)/plasma StatusNotifierItemSource::refreshCallback: DBusMenu disabled for this application 
[mjn@box ~]$ plasma-desktop(3219) KSambaSharePrivate::findSmbConf: KSambaShare: Could not find smb.conf! 
QColor::setNamedColor: Unknown color name '4279505682'
QTextHtmlParser::applyAttributes: Unknown color name '4279505682'
plasma-desktop(3219)/libakonadi Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::itemsFetched: Fetched an item which is already in the model 
plasma-desktop(3219)/libakonadi Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::itemsFetched: Fetched an item which is already in the model 
plasma-desktop(3219)/libakonadi Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::itemsFetched: Fetched an item which is already in the model 
plasma-desktop(3219)/libakonadi Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::itemsFetched: Fetched an item which is already in the model 
plasma-desktop(3219)/libakonadi Akonadi::EntityTreeModelPrivate::itemsFetched: Fetched an item which is already in the model 
Qt has caught an exception thrown from an event handler. Throwing
exceptions from an event handler is not supported in Qt. You must
reimplement QApplication::notify() and catch all exceptions there.

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Akonadi::PayloadException'
  what():  Akonadi::PayloadException: No payload set

DarksideEE7

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From: Arkansas, United States

Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 356

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

I'm getting crashes on my laptop (not my desktop though) when I right click on the desktop > select Desktop Settings.  I get a signal 11 seg fault in kdeinit4.

I'm going to test a fresh account and see if that recreates the crash.  I also start kde using startx and .xinitrc with ck-launch-session added to the line.

Update:

I just created a fresh user with the same .xinitrc line and the error is recreated upon clicking on Desktop Settings.  My desktop .kde4 folder hasn't been wiped since 4.5 I believe, yet it doesn't suffer from this bug.  My laptop was on a fresh installation from a few months ago, starting with 4.6 I believe.

Last edited by DarksideEE7 (2011-08-01 02:28:41)

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

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Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

I am having issues with minimal install i installed kdebase phonon-gstreamer as it says in wiki but i see KDM and when i login it just gets stuck and does not get to desktop.
Does anyone know what am i missing?

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atrocmh

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Registered: 2011-08-01

Posts: 11

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

only creating a new activity fixed my desktop settings crash

skunkos

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2011-06-20

Posts: 46

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Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

It crashes on logging off here which makes it hard to send a bug report.
KDE 4.7 has several regressions so far mainly in plasma and kdelibs. I've reported a few so far.

That's right, i see these crashes (when logging-off) too. But not everytime. It crashes for example when launch some application and log off just after it. Maybe some memory-based-failure. Not sure about these things.

Sorry about my sucking english.

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giddie

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From: Birmingham, UK

Registered: 2009-03-25

Posts: 125

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

This seems to be caused by this bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278222

I solved the problem for me by patching kdeplasma-addons-containments with the patch from that bug:

# sudo abs
# cp -R /var/abs/extra/kde-plasma-addons ~
# cd ~/kde-plasma-addons
# makepkg -o
# cd src/kdeplasma-addons-4.7.0
# patch -p1 < [path-to-patch]
# cd ../..
To make the build significantly faster, modify the PKGBUILD file so that line 99 reads "make containments" instead of just "make".
# makepkg -sre --pkg kdeplasma-addons-containments
# sudo pacman -U kdeplasma-addons-containments-4.7.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Hope this works for you guys too

mjn

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Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 7

Re: KDE 4.7 Plasma Desktop Crash

I didn't try that patch but I think what fixed it for me was opening ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc and removing the clock applet. Not sure what was the problem with it but plasma-desktop no longer crashes now.