Fatal Error on Plasma Workspace

Asked By fstest 600 points N/A Posted on - 06/23/2011

Hello dear friends,

After an update done on yesterday, I am getting the following error in my KDE.

A Fatal Error occurred
The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused
 the signal 11 ( SIGSEGV).
Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
https://bugs.kde.org/. Useful details include how to reproduce the

error, documents that were loaded, etc.
 

The plasma wont going to load at all.

Following is the output from the console.

xuser@home:~$ plasma
<unknown program name>(6751)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x624a60 73400321
<unknown program name>(6751)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x61cf80
Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
plasma(6751): 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)" "
xuser@home:~$ KCrash: crashing… crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = plasma path = <unknown> pid = 6752
sock_file=/home/serens/.kde4/socket-PC234/kdeinit4__0
<unknown program name>(6754)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x624a60 73400321
<unknown program name>(6754)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x61cf80
plasma(6754): 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)" "

Please Help.

Thanks.

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Answered By Peter Parker 0 points N/A #114292

Fatal Error on Plasma Workspace

Hi,

 

In the login screen opt for “console login” in menu. Then delete 2 files in the plasma configuration and this may fix the matter.

 

These commands will be useful

 

    cd ~/.kde/share/config (This is the main command which will phrase out .kde folder)

    rm plasma-appletsrc

    rm plasmarc

    reboot

 

You can also login to the graphical desktop instead of rebooting but I recommend rebooting.

This error is seen if you have made any modifications in the panel. Therefore resetting the plasma configuration to default is the only solution and the steps mentioned above are to do this.

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Answered By Griesham karla 0 points N/A #114293

Fatal Error on Plasma Workspace

 

Hi there,

 

there have been problems turning up of late with latest KDE 4.x.x updates. 

 

The good thing about Linux and kde in particular, there are several workarounds for an error.

 

First method would rename ./kde4 to ./kde4_old and doing the same for ./kde changing to ./kde_old.

 

Second Method would be to remove the plasma-appletsrc by the following command.

~./kde/share/config/plasma-appletsrc and restart

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