> Well, darn. I was hoping that a "startx" would at least output something that could > give a clue as to why plasmashell is crashing. He, you are right, I have something in the terminal: xauth: file /home/fred/.serverauth.1393 does not exist X.Org X Server 1.19.3 Release Date: 2017-03-15 ... xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted) xset: bad font path element (#2), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1 exited with status 1 vmware-user: could not open /proc .KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/kdeinit5 from kdeinitsock_file=/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0 Warning: conncect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/kdeinit5 directly KCrash: Applicatino 'kdeinit5' crashing... kdeinit5: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! .KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/libexec/drkonqi directly > Shot in the dark.... Are any of your file systems full? nothing full > In any event, I think it would be a good idea to ask the fine folks on the KDE list > for their advice as to how to figure out why plasmashell is crashing. you're right, I will. Frédéric _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx