Bug 462448 - Plasma workspace crashes on login
Summary: Plasma workspace crashes on login
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 461848
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdebase-workspace
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-16 12:45 UTC by David Tonhofer
Modified: 2008-09-16 15:29 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-09-16 15:29:42 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
Crashhandler dumps, three text files (30.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2008-09-16 12:45 UTC, David Tonhofer
no flags Details
Stacktrace with newly created ~/.kde and old plasma-appletsrc (6.36 KB, text/plain)
2008-09-16 13:38 UTC, David Tonhofer
no flags Details
Plasma-appletsrc making plasma crash (1.57 KB, text/plain)
2008-09-16 13:39 UTC, David Tonhofer
no flags Details

Description David Tonhofer 2008-09-16 12:45:34 UTC
Created attachment 316843 [details]
Crashhandler dumps, three text files

Description of problem:
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I log in through kdm, but do not get a desktop. Instead the KDE crash handler shows that the plasma workspace has crashes. Only Dolphin, still pointing to a now removed USB memory stick is started.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
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kdebase-workspace-4.1.0-8.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
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This occurred from a given boot on, but then always. Only fixed by:

Workaround
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renaming ~/.kde to ~/KDE.kde
  
(Maybe additionally removing an icon from the desktop and closing dolphin which was started at login)

Additional info:
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3 krash handler dumps attached, all from 3 different login attempts. diff shows only minor differences.

Comment 1 David Tonhofer 2008-09-16 13:30:02 UTC
It looks like an existing ~/.kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc caused havoc. It may have been left from a time from before an upgrade of the kdebase packages. 

I tested this by removing ~/.kde (causing it to be re-created at login), then copying said file from the old, saved ~/.kde over to the new ~/.kde. 

Will attach the file in question and the stacktrace after one last test.

Comment 2 David Tonhofer 2008-09-16 13:38:11 UTC
Created attachment 316850 [details]
Stacktrace with newly created ~/.kde and old plasma-appletsrc

Comment 3 David Tonhofer 2008-09-16 13:39:06 UTC
Created attachment 316851 [details]
Plasma-appletsrc making plasma crash

Comment 4 Kevin Kofler 2008-09-16 15:29:42 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 461848 ***


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