[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
For anyone curious: Non-functional black-screen-with-pointer X: $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS :/var/lib/snapd/desktop Workaround second X with plasma: $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/share//usr/share/xsessions/plasma:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/var/lib/snapd/desktop After fully removing snapd: $ echo $XDG_DATA_DIRS /usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
Doesn't quite fix it for me. Purging and reinstalling snapd had no effect. ~/.local/share/plasma already had one thing in it, so I created a variety of new links into /usr/share/plasma/*. That gave me a KDE splash screen, the popup about plasmashell being missing went away, and the crash report dialog was for baloo-file instead of krunner. Still no taskbar, widgets, wallpaper, etc. Creating a link for /var/lib/snapd/desktop/plasma or making the link and purging and reinstalling snapd again (the link survived the purge) had no effect. So I still get to go through the same workaround thunderbird>chromium>konsole>teamviewer>plasmashell. After doing all this, the second instance of KDE lost its taskbar. Had to create it again from the right-click menu on the desktop. The new one looks different, so perhaps it was previously loading the 15.10 version somehow. Also, when the second instance of X starts, the first thing that appears is the login screen, which looks like the Kubuntu 15.10 version. When I lock the screen, I get the 16.04 screen locker. The former displays the time in a localized format based on the physical location of the computer (China), the latter displays the time using the system language/localization (Canadian English). So I'm wondering if something moved around between the two versions, but without updating an important config file somewhere. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
Further to my comment #3: X ran in parallel with the instance of KDE/Plasma that was started accidentally via kdesudo and/or teamviewer daemon for an hour or two (confusing some software), then X died in the background. Plasma is still running, days later. "Everything works" was a bit of an approximation. Plasmashell is consuming 105-125% of a processor, 10.3G of virtual RAM, and 0.55G of physical RAM, while Xorg eats ~30-40% of a processor, 500M virtual, 140M RAM. In some cases, selecting a window on the taskbar doesn't work (it sometimes thinks I'm dragging the button I click on), and I've had some issues with copy/paste. I was sufficiently relieved to have plasma again that it took a few days before its dragging bothered me enough to check this. Let me know if there's any information you'd like from a plasma-fails- to-load system with "functioning" X and/or Plasma accessible only via bizarre workarounds. But I may not have access to the computer next week... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
$ lspci -v ... 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland XT [Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250/350] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Radeon R7 250 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31 Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f7e0 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Expansion ROM at f7e4 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: Kernel driver in use: radeon Kernel modules: radeon ... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1576500] Re: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
$ krunner Icon theme "breeze" not found. Icon theme "oxygen" not found. Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found! File name empty! KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/krunner from kdeinit sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = krunner path = /usr/bin pid = 8025 KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/krunner KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit sock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 [3]+ Stopped krunner $ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1576500] [NEW] Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing"
Public bug reported: Upgraded to Xenial, and Plasma disappeared. Starting the X server, I get a blank screen, then error messages indicating that there is no Plasma shell. In particular, "All shell packages missing. This is an installation issue, please contact your distribution" Expected: window manager, task bar, icons, wallpaper, widgets etc. load with X Actual: Not so much. Repeatable: every time. plasma-desktop version: 4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 This happened on only one of my three systems. I've attached a screenshot of the full screen including the three error windows. It asks for a bug report on krunner. Application switching works (upper left corner and Alt-Tab). Screen resolution and colours seem fine. Icons are often absent (e.g. absent in Emacs but present in Chromium), and passing the mouse over an absent button dumps this to the originating terminal window: (emacs:2916): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed Starting plasmashell from Konsole: $ plasmashell Icon theme "breeze" not found. Icon theme "oxygen" not found. Error: standard icon theme "oxygen" not found! Failed to load the OSD QML file file from "" This also brings up the "all shell packages missing" window. Closing that returns We have no shell handlers installed on the Konsole. The screen locker doesn't work, so instead it tells me to go to a virtual terminal and unlock it from there. That works. Konsole has lost use of the arrow keys, which makes things like Nano very difficult to use. I don't know whether that's related. I tried apt-get --reinstall install for all installed plasma packages. Quirks of current installation: I boot into text mode, then start the X server with startx, and before the upgrade I was using fglrx drivers from http://ppa.launchpad.net/costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa/ubuntu (both changes were done to allow Boinc to access the ATI GPU). The driver has evidently not yet been released for 16.04, but X falls back to an ATI driver that seems to work perfectly well. How I got access to Konsole: Thunderbird starts with X. An e-mail containing a link can be used to open chromium, my default browser. Chromium's Downloads tab allows me to open the containing folder. Dolphin runs fine from Konsole (but without icons), but chromium doesn't like dolphin today, so it asks for an alternative program for opening the folder. I tell it "konsole", I get that, and I can use my system again. Sort of. With no KDE/Plasma widgets/taskbar etc., no icons in many programs, and reduced functionality in the terminal, the GUI is extremely clunky and annoying to use. Possibly related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/1571564 Brief earlier discussion at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321538 Hopefully ubuntu-bug uploaded what it needed to. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: plasma-desktop 4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri Apr 29 11:40:01 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-11-26 (154 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151021) SourcePackage: plasma-desktop UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-27 (2 days ago) ** Affects: plasma-desktop (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial ** Attachment added: "Windows visible upon starting X" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500/+attachment/4650937/+files/Plasma_fail1.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to plasma-desktop in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1576500 Title: Plasma fails to load: "all shell packages missing" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-desktop/+bug/1576500/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1320041] [NEW] Muon-updater fails to ask for authentication
Public bug reported: When attempting to install updates in muon-updater, clicking Install Updates immediately returns a dialog box stating "This operation cannot continue since proper authorisation was not provided", without first asking for a password. Reinstalling polkit-kde-1 does not help, killing qaptworker2 does not help. Actual behaviour: the above error message. Expected behaviour: software asks for password, installs updates muon-updater: Installed: 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1 Candidate: 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1 Version table: *** 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.0-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages Description:Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release:14.04 Various things to check were suggested under Bug 833058, so a file is attached with more information ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: muon-updater 2.2.0-0ubuntu3.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Fri May 16 10:27:49 2014 SourcePackage: muon UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-19 (26 days ago) ** Affects: muon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 trusty ** Attachment added: "bug.txt" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320041/+attachment/4113488/+files/bug.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to muon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320041 Title: Muon-updater fails to ask for authentication To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/muon/+bug/1320041/+subscriptions -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
