Complete KDE crash (was in debian-user before)

To: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
Subject: Complete KDE crash (was in debian-user before)
From: kristian.mailinglists@ewetel.net
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 16:24:57 +0200
Message-id: <20070527162457.odc2zat58l1ws8ok@webmail.ewetel.de>

Hi,

I hope to get help from some advanced kde-user or developer:

I use sid with kernel 2.6.20 on an ASPIRE-Laptop, updated almost every day.

Since an update on 21.5 evening I can't use kde anymore! I discussedthis already on debian-user(http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/05/msg03713.html), but wecame to the solution going to this list to ask more specialised kdefreaks:


Here the problem:

After logging in with kdm, the kde splash-screen comes up. When thesecond icon begins to blink (the harddisc-icon) it takes very long(~20s, normal was ~5s). Then it goes until the second last icon(Preparing Workplace?), there it pauses again for 10s. Then after kdeis started I have my background image without desktop icons, and atthe bottom a grey bar, where normally the K-taskbar is. I have amoveable mousecursor, but can't do anything. I have to CTRL-ALT-BSPCto come out.


I worked on with help of debian-user, this we have checked/tried:

Creating a new user with a virgin .kde directory and logging in as that user.
->The same problem

I did
aptitude -F '%p%?v' search '~i~dkde' | awk '/4:3.5.7/ {print $1,$2}'

to see if the upgrade to 3.5.7 has worked on all packages. The only3.5.6 packages are:


kde-i18n-de 4:3.5.6-1
ksync 4:3.5.6.dfsg.1-2

Then I did:

invoke-rc.d kdm stop
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade
invoke-rc.d kdm start
and a reboot, but no help.

~/xsession-errors shows just this:
startkde: Starting up...
kbuildsycoca running...

Then after shutting down kdm and X I did:

dpkg --force-depends --purge kdelibs4c2a kdelibs-data menu-xdg xbase-clients
aptitude install kdelibs4c2a kdelibs-data menu-xdg xbase-clients

and rebootet, but allmost the same. The only difference is that~/.xsession-errors showed a lot of warnings the first I tried to loadkde after the new installation:


Xsession: X session started for kristian at Fr 25. Mai 13:47:43 CEST 2007
startkde: Starting up...
kbuildsycoca running...
Reusing existing ksycoca
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : media_realfolder.desktop

kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file.hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop has

Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services"
kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop'specifies undefined

mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop'specifies undefined

mimetype/servicetype 'application/asx'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/kde/amarok.desktop'specifies undefined

mimetype/servicetype 'audio/midi'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ark_part.desktop' specifies undefinedmimetype/servicetype

'application/x-tbz2'

..SNIP...