Duncan wrote: > Sagara Wijetunga posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:46:37 +0800 as excerpted: > > >> Here are my side info: >> HAL-0.5.13, Xorg 7.5, Qt-4.6.0, 32-bit x86, OS: FreeBSD 7.2 (Tomahawk >> Desktop). >> >> Its only plasma-desktop crash. After the plasma-desktop crash, I can >> press Alt-F2 and run krunner, from there I can select and run konsole. >> The konsole screen appear but goes off, konsole does not crash. Since >> konsole disappear, I cannot run anything any further. >> > > I have no idea about FreeBSD or Tomahawk, as I rather prefer the down-to- > the-user freedoms of the GPLs, so haven't messed with the BSDs on > principle. They're still my free software bretheren and I respect them > for that (unlike the proprietaryware folks, who won't respect my rights > as an intelligent human, so I respect them about as I would a slave > trader trying to ship me off... for the damage they can do and that's > pretty much it), but it's not my personal choice... > > But hal-0.5.13... probably isn't an issue. Xorg shouldn't be either, as > it seems to be running fine. But it's narrowly possible qt-4.6.0 has > other issues on the BSDs -- it's new enough, not all of them might be > well known, yet. > > And another thing that's different. I could run most apps including kde > apps, all the ones I tried, certainly, just not plasma-desktop. Thus, > konsole ran and stayed open just fine. So your problem seems to be > different enough from mine, it's probably not related at all. > > Question: Do you have any other x-terminal type apps installed that > could be used in place of konsole? What about xorg's own, xterm? > There's a number of other reasonably light dependency ones as well, rxvt, > mrxvt, aterm, etc. If you can get one running, and I bet you can with > little trouble, you can try running konsole and/or plasma-desktop from > it, and see what happens. Of course, I'm not sure whether the others > ensure that the correct environment is there to support kde apps, but > that should be reasonably easy to fix, if necesary. > > Here is the error list from Alt-F2->xterm->plasma-desktop: plasma-desktop(1229) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1. QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" plasma-desktop(1229)/plasma PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 15599 kilobytes KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = plasma-desktop path = <unknown> pid = 1229 plasma-desktop(1234) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1. QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" plasma-desktop(1234)/plasma PlasmaApp::PlasmaApp: Setting the pixmap cache size to 15599 kilobytes plasma-desktop(1228): Communication problem with "plasma-desktop" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " plasma-desktop(1233): Communication problem with "plasma-desktop" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " Now plasma-desktop gives only those errors. Can't it still be some configuration error? How to find from which service the plasma-desktop expect a reply? Regards Sagara ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.