[Bug 158820] plasma crash at startup

[Stefan Berteau]

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------- Additional Comments From stefan.berteau gmail com  2008-04-04 23:37 -------
I am experiencing what I believe is a similar problem.  On an ubuntu hardy system plasma initially crashed while I was using it to switch virtual desktops.  Major applications running at the time included firefox, amarok, eclipse, and pidgin, along with the post-it note widget available in ubuntu's extragear-plasma package.  I had not modified the plasma configuration or added/removed/altered widgets in roughly 24 hours.  After that plasma was not able to launch successfully, and if run from konsole (in X) produced the following output:

<unknown program name>(5732)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x805b968 65011713
<unknown program name>(5732)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x805b228
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Extension:    155 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Resource id:  0x5a
plasma(5733) PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 7747 kilobytes
plasma(5733) Plasma::Corona::addContainment: loading of containment "" failed.
findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found
Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasma path = <unknown> pid = 5733
sock_file=/home/stefan/.kde4/socket-stefan-kubuntu-clean/kdeinit4__0
plasma(5732): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

I noticed the similar "loading of containment" message, and removed my plasma-appletsrc file, which alleviated the problem, at least for the moment.  I am attaching the contents of my plasma-appletsrc file for comparison, since it appears to be fairly different from the currently attached one.