Bug#853171: segmentation fault when disabling a screen with kscreen without upower installed on the system
Control: retitle -1 plasma-desktop: Should probably add upower to Depends
Control: severity -1 normal
Hi!
> When using plasma-desktop without upower installed on the system, plasma-desktop
> segfaults when I disable a screen with kscreen.
upower is a required dependency for Plasma, though it's not pulled in by the
plasma-desktop package but kde-plasma-desktop which in turn depends on the
plasma-desktop package itself:
root@ikarus:~# apt-cache depends kde-plasma-desktop
kde-plasma-desktop
Depends: kde-baseapps
Depends: kde-runtime
Depends: plasma-desktop
Depends: plasma-workspace
Depends: udisks2
storaged
udisks2:i386
Depends: upower
upower:i386
Breaks: <kde-minimal>
Recommends: kwin-x11
Recommends: sddm
Recommends: xserver-xorg
Suggests: <kde-l10n>
root@ikarus:~#
Thus, when installing KDE normally, upower is pulled in and Plasma is working
correctly. The only possible bug here is that plasma-desktop itself does not
depend on upower despite not being functional without it. I am therefore
retitling the bug accordingly and reduce the severity to normal because this
isn't a serious bug either as you can only trigger this issue when not installing
KDE the intended way.
Please be aware that neither Debian nor upstream support running Plasma without
upower installed, so I'm not sure why you are expecting this to work. If you think
that Plasma should work without upower, please report a wishlist bug upstream.
Adrian
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