It is about permissions and the theme. If you are sticking to breeze and change permissions recursively in ~/.config and ~/.cache then
kbuildsycoca5 && kquitapp plasmashell && kstart plasmashell should fix everything But you would not get the panel if you are using oxygen. Best A. Mani Prof(Miss) A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ http://about.me/logicamani sip:girlprofes...@ekiga.net On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:21 AM, magor <1448...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > Sorry, it's stranger than that.. > > plasmashell crashes on boot. > 1) rm .cache > 2) kbuildsycoca5 > 3) plasmashell > crash just like on boot > 4) rm .cache > 5) plasmashell (from console) > > * Black screen, but no crash > > 6) ctrl+c in console to stop plasma > 7) kbuildsyoca5 > 8) plsamashell > > * At this point I have a desktop background but no menu bar. > (repeatable) > > 9) rightclick > add panel > default panel > > * crash > > 10) rm .cache > 11) plsamashell > 12) ctrl + c > 13) kbuildsyoca5 > 14) plasmashell > 15) right click add empty panel. > > * Yeah, no crash!!! > * Boo, no items in panel.. > > 16) add clock to panel (no crash) > 17) add volume control to panel (no crash) > 18) add application launcher (no crash) > 19) add Icon only task manager (no crash) > > .. Okay, I have enough in my task bar to start working again.. If I ever > figure out what item in the plasmashell -> default panel was crashing > I'll let you know. > > (I was getting it to crash in 15.04 after the computer lost power, I > upgraded to 15.10 and it still crashed.. Lots of variables, but it > appears this issue might span releases) > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a > duplicate bug report (1450271). > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448102 > > Title: > Kubuntu 15.04: plasmashell crashes > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1448102/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1448102 Title: Kubuntu 15.04: plasmashell crashes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-workspace/+bug/1448102/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs