Genes MailLists wrote:
> sort of ... a running program -typically will continue to function
> just fine even if it is unlinked and a new one put in place - its
> possible paging from the file may be an issue but far more likely is
> that a subordinate program gets started which is not new and now in some
> way conflicts.
>
> none of this explains why plasma-desktop crashes and burns. This seems
> far more likely to be a bug to me - it should function fine during and
> after an update - if logout is necessary, or a reboot (on very odd
> occasions) fine ... don't crash the desktop before that happens.
Plasma loads plugins at runtime. If the version of the plugin on disk
doesn't match the version of the main program in memory, it will fail to
load. This also affects some other KDE programs.
Kevin Kofler
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