[Bug 159015] New: plasma crashes at start, so there is no desktop, no menu, but I can still launch other apps via <Alt><F2>

[jean]

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           Summary: plasma crashes at start, so there is no desktop, no
                    menu, but I can still launch other apps via <Alt><F2>
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: unspecified
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: jean.lienard gmail com


Version:           0.0.1 (using 4.0.2 (KDE 4.0.2), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.22-14-generic

I don't really remember what caused this bug - I think I was configuring some things concerning the graphical aspect of the desktop...
Anyway, after logging in with gdm, there is only this little window from the KDE crash handler saying that plasma crashed with signal 11 - no desktop, no workspace... But I can still launch any other application with Alt+F2.

There is also a very important point : this bug continue even AFTER removing every single package (with configuration) of KDE 4, and re-installing kde4-core... But damned! KDE worked just totally fine before this bug and with exactly the same version of KDE 4 !... 


I tried to launch xterm, kill plasma, and then tried to relaunch it from the command-line. I don't know if it is helpful, but here I go for what it said in the terminal before showing the same window from the KDE crash handler :

jean the-butcher:~$ pkill plasma
jean the-butcher:~$ plasma 
<unknown program name>(7190)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x622950
 27262977
<unknown program name>(7190)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x61c5
60
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Extension:    156 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Resource id:  0x13a
plasma(7191) PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 20624 kiloby
tes
plasma(7191) 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 = 7191
sock_file=/home/jean/.kde4/socket-the-butcher/kdeinit4__0
plasma(7190): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not re
ceive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " 

jean the-butcher:~$ <unknown program name>(7193)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an 
argb visual 0x622950 27262977
<unknown program name>(7193)/ checkComposite: Plasma is COMPOSITE-less on 0x61c5
60
X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
  Extension:    156 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode: 4 (RenderCreatePicture)
  Resource id:  0x13a
plasma(7196) PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 20624 kiloby
tes
plasma(7196) Plasma::Corona::addContainment: loading of containment "" failed.
findServiceByDesktopPath:  not found
plasma(7193): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably crashed. 
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not re
ceive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "