FS#13000 - KDE 4.2 broken

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 12:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 13:37 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Critical
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I've upgraded to kde 4.2, and surely it doesn't work !
I start manually x (startx in terminal console and startkde in .xinitrc) and, after the splash sequence, I'm
stuck with the arrow cursor, the background and NOTHING ELSE !
If I try to start an application via ALT+F2, the krunner window appears, I can type tye app name, but
pressing ENTER has ZERO effect.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
archlinux-themes-kde 1.5-1
kde-extragear-plasmoids 4.1.3-8
kde-l10n-it 4.2.0-1
kdeaccessibility 4.2.0-1
kdeadmin 4.2.0-1
kdeartwork 4.2.0-1
kdebase 4.2.0-1
kdebase-runtime 4.2.0-2
kdebase-workspace 4.2.0-2
kdebindings 4.2.0-1
kdeedu 4.2.0-1
kdegames 4.2.0-1
kdegraphics 4.2.0-1
kdelibs 4.2.0-4
kdelibs3 3.5.10-2
kdemultimedia 4.2.0-1
kdenetwork 4.2.0-2
kdepim 4.2.0-1
kdepimlibs 4.2.0-1
kdeplasma-addons 4.2.0-1
kdesdk 4.2.0-1
kdesvn 1.2.3-1
kdetoys 4.2.0-1
kdeutils 4.2.0-1
kdevelop 3.5.4-1
kdewebdev 4.2.0-1
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 13:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Works for me
Comment by Gavin Bisesi (Daenyth) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 13:12 GMT
  • Field changed: Status (Unconfirmed → Waiting on Response)
Please attach your xorg.log from such a session
Comment by Pierre Schmitz (Pierre) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 14:30 GMT
Did you try with a new user or clean config as suggested?
Comment by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 14:42 GMT
I've attached the log I've got when starting X.
Before starting the new kde4.2 i've moved out of the way the ~/.kde4 directory, so the config was clean.
I've now solved the problem by REMOVING all the kde-related packages and re-installing only kde (no koffice, digikam, etc etc), but this was disappointing, as now I've got to reinstall all the packages I need
   startx.log (17.5 KiB)
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 18:57 GMT
is this related to the pacman bug which didn't update packages if more packages were added to a group you already had installed?
Comment by kongokris 2 (nut543) - Tuesday, 27 January 2009, 18:57 GMT
*didn't update AND add packages
Comment by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 09:06 GMT
I' don't know if it's related to the pacman bug; I've compared the list of the packages before and after the reinstall, and it seems that all the packages I've got now (after removing and reinstalling) were present before (just after the update, where it was not working). The only difference is in the kdevelop, kdesvn and archlinux-themes-kde 1.5-1 that now are not installed.

This is the list of the packages (installed now) obtained with: pacman -Q|grep kde

kde-l10n-it 4.2.0-1
kdeaccessibility 4.2.0-1
kdeadmin 4.2.0-1
kdeartwork 4.2.0-1
kdebase 4.2.0-1
kdebase-runtime 4.2.0-2
kdebase-workspace 4.2.0-2
kdebindings 4.2.0-1
kdeedu 4.2.0-1
kdegames 4.2.0-1
kdegraphics 4.2.0-1
kdelibs 4.2.0-4
kdelibs3 3.5.10-2
kdemultimedia 4.2.0-1
kdenetwork 4.2.0-2
kdepim 4.2.0-1
kdepimlibs 4.2.0-1
kdeplasma-addons 4.2.0-1
kdesdk 4.2.0-1
kdetoys 4.2.0-1
kdeutils 4.2.0-1
kdewebdev 4.2.0-1

As I've said before, at the moment of the update in this list there were also archlinux-themes-kde 1.5-1, kdesvn 1.2.3-1 and kdevelop 3.5.4-1
Comment by figue (figue) - Wednesday, 28 January 2009, 17:15 GMT
Check if your /var is full (100%)
Comment by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 08:00 GMT
figue: I've got only 2 partitions, one for /boot and one for the whole filesystem, and I've got 22Gbytes on it

simone@simone:~$ df -h
Filesystem Dimens. Usati Disp. Uso% Montato su
/dev/sda3 70G 45G 22G 68% /
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 137M 12M 118M 10% /boot

Comment by figue (figue) - Thursday, 29 January 2009, 17:16 GMT
Ok, a friend of mine happened the same and the problem was the /var.
Comment by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Friday, 30 January 2009, 14:30 GMT
No, this is not the case. As I've said before, after removing all kde-related packages (including application like digikam or koffice or even k3b) I've reinstalled kde and it's working now.

I've reinstalled many (but not all) of the programs that were removed and everything keeps working.
Don't know...
Comment by Leonardo (sud_crow) - Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 13:15 GMT
I had this same issue and found out whats the problem.

It seems on certain upgrades from kde 4.1 to 4.2, some packages are missing.

I was at work, so I couldn't take the time to look exactly what packages were missing, but I'm quite sure kdeadmin and kdelibs where among them.

I did a "pacman -S kde", and after a reboot, at least I could do a right click and add the panel/tray/etc. manually. Note that the panel, folder view, taskbar, etc. wasnt restored after the reinstall of kde.
Comment by Rulatir (Rulatir) - Monday, 09 February 2009, 22:57 GMT
Simone, you mentioned archlinux-themes-kde. Try installing this one. It helped my friend who had a similar problem.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 15 March 2009, 04:00 GMT
What is happening here? Can I close this?
Comment by Simone Lazzaris (ziopera) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 13:34 GMT
I cannot reproduce the bug anymore: as I've said, I've uninstalled all kde pakages and then reinstalled them. And now my system is working like a charm. Maybe we can close the bug if it's not experienced by someone else.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 17 March 2009, 13:37 GMT
I'll close it as it has been a while. We have a reopen button...

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