Kickoff menu blank

[dhave]

Duncan wrote:

> More on the linking idea...
> 
> Try this (substituting the path as appropriate) 
from 
either a text VT or a
> terminal window, konsole, whatever:
> 
> ldd /usr/lib64/libkickoff.so
> 
All libraries appear with the associated hex number 
other than the two exceptions you noted.

> 
> Meanwhile, I was thinking it might be something 
else, perhaps the plasma
> color scheme you're using.  

I've tried numerous color schemes to see if that 
could 
be the problem, but nothing helped.

> > Something else to try.  From a konsole window, 
kill the plasma-desktop
> process (killall plasma-desktop is what I use 
here).  
Then restart it
> (plasma-desktop), so it's dumping STDOUT and STDERR 
to your konsole
> window.
> 

Here's my screen output for plasma-desktop:

=== beginning of screen output ===

$ plasma-desktop
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
Connecting to deprecated signal 
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
LancelotApplet::init() 
ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error
ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
plasma-desktop(6334)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: 
The library "/usr/lib/kde4/solid_hal_power.so" does 
not offer a qt_plugin_instance function.
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::destroyed() 
to Plasma::ExtenderItem::sourceAppletRemoved()
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma-
desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection
[chas64 at thinkpad ~]$ plasma-desktop(6334): 
""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate 
failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
plasma-desktop(6334)/libplasma 
Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 
0) 

=== end of screen output ===

> Here, I get a quite a bit of output, but most of 
it's simply status info
> from yawp (yet another weather plasmoid).  If I 
didn't have it running,
> the output would be much shorter.  Still, there's 
some output other than
> that, even some that looks bad (several of 
QFont::setPoinSize: Point size
> <=0 (0), must be greather than 0, for instance, a 
null image warning,
> several invalid or negative size warnings, etc), 
but 
appears not to make a
> whole lot of difference in practice.
> 
> Amongst all that apparently nothing to worry about 
output, however, you
> may find something indicating or at least hinting 
at 
the problem.
> 
> When you're thru looking at the output, you will 
probably want to close
> that konsole window, instead of using it for other 
things, because
> plasma's likely to continue spitting out additional 
output as things
> happen, until you close the window, and that'll 
screwup the display of
> whatever else you're trying to do in the 
window.  So 
just use it for that,
> then kill the window when you're done.  (plasma-
desktop should
> automatically disown itself from the konsole 
parent, 
so you shouldn't have
> to worry about the konsole close killing plasma 
again, too.  If perchance
> it does, krunner should still launch (alt-f2 by 
default), and you can run
> plasma from there.)
> 

Here's the screen output from running plasma-desktop:

$ plasma-desktop
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
Connecting to deprecated signal 
QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QDBusObjectPath: invalid path ""
LancelotApplet::init() 
ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error
ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
plasma-desktop(6334)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: 
The library "/usr/lib/kde4/solid_hal_power.so" does 
not offer a qt_plugin_instance function.
QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::destroyed() 
to Plasma::ExtenderItem::sourceAppletRemoved()
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma-
desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection
[chas64 at thinkpad ~]$ plasma-desktop(6334): 
""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate 
failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - 
conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: 
expected 3 items, got 1)" 
QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0
plasma-desktop(6334)/libplasma 
Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 
0) 

=== end of screen output ===

Sorry about the html posting. I was accessing this 
list via a gmail account that I usually read on the 
web rather than through a mail or usenet client. I 
switched over to knode.

Thanks for all your help. I'm starting to get a 
little 
hopeful now.

-dhave


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