On Monday, 11 September 2017 19:27:02 BST Jigme Datse Yli-RAsku wrote: > I had a similar (if not identical problem). This solution is a > "difficult" solution, the reason I experienced this (if I understand) > was that I was running KDE at the same time I was updating KDE.
No the user started a Plasma session after booting up the PC and while no updates were being performed. > I can't > remember if I simply rebooted, or if all it took was logging out, and > logging back in. Even if I had rebooted, the *most* that should be > required is restarting X, which if you are running XDM may require > restarting XDM, or as stated, simply logging out and logging back in > (but that might not be possible from KDE running in this broken mode). > It should happen relatively infrequently. I can login and restart xdm, but I fear the user may lose some the work being performed at the time. I may end up doing this, but not if there is a way to recover the session. Strangely, I can't see any relevant screenlock process I could stop from the console. :-( -- Regards, Mick