[kopete-bugs] [Bug 267780] Crash at startup of plasma

[Marco Vader]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267780


Marco Vader <marco at mmvinder.nl> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Marco Vader <marco mmvinder nl>  2011-06-10 01:10:16 ---
Hi all,

I recently switched to KDE on fedora 15 after gnome 3 came on (but also used
KDE some years ago). I noticed that plasma crashed sometimes when configuring
the desktop,plasmoids etc. and it crashed always at startup. Problem I saw was
that some of the desktop settings were lost after a plasma crash and some
previous configurations came up. At startup,just before the crash I noticed old
desktops were very shortly shown and it switched to some other settings. 

Trying to understand it I tried to minimize the startup programs. Unusual thing
was that plasma-desktop was listed twice. Removing one of them in turn in the
System Settings caused KDE to start without displaymanager or menu. Still one
plasma-desktop was in the startup scripts.

Finding at autostart scripts I found a mess, scripts in:
 ./.config/autostart
./.kde4/Autostart
./.kde/Autostart
./.kde/share/autostart

I brutally moved .kde to .kde-old because I'm running KDE4 after all.
Now KDE started much cleaner. I saw the KDE init screen (with the five icons
popping up) which was not the case before. Plasma didn't crash any more but
desktop was empty. Added the systembar manually and was able to work normally.
Okay, I lost some application settings from the .kde folder but a new .kde
folder was created automatically and it was easy to copy some of the settings
back.

So I hope this helps to find the real bugs...

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