Duncan wrote: > More on the linking idea... > > Try this (substituting the path as appropriate) from either a text VT or a > terminal window, konsole, whatever: > > ldd /usr/lib64/libkickoff.so > All libraries appear with the associated hex number other than the two exceptions you noted. > > Meanwhile, I was thinking it might be something else, perhaps the plasma > color scheme you're using. I've tried numerous color schemes to see if that could be the problem, but nothing helped. > > Something else to try. From a konsole window, kill the plasma-desktop > process (killall plasma-desktop is what I use here). Then restart it > (plasma-desktop), so it's dumping STDOUT and STDERR to your konsole > window. > Here's my screen output for plasma-desktop: === beginning of screen output === $ plasma-desktop QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" LancelotApplet::init() ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 plasma-desktop(6334)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/solid_hal_power.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::destroyed() to Plasma::ExtenderItem::sourceAppletRemoved() QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma- desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection [chas64@thinkpad ~]$ plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 plasma-desktop(6334)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) === end of screen output === > Here, I get a quite a bit of output, but most of it's simply status info > from yawp (yet another weather plasmoid). If I didn't have it running, > the output would be much shorter. Still, there's some output other than > that, even some that looks bad (several of QFont::setPoinSize: Point size > <=0 (0), must be greather than 0, for instance, a null image warning, > several invalid or negative size warnings, etc), but appears not to make a > whole lot of difference in practice. > > Amongst all that apparently nothing to worry about output, however, you > may find something indicating or at least hinting at the problem. > > When you're thru looking at the output, you will probably want to close > that konsole window, instead of using it for other things, because > plasma's likely to continue spitting out additional output as things > happen, until you close the window, and that'll screwup the display of > whatever else you're trying to do in the window. So just use it for that, > then kill the window when you're done. (plasma- desktop should > automatically disown itself from the konsole parent, so you shouldn't have > to worry about the konsole close killing plasma again, too. If perchance > it does, krunner should still launch (alt-f2 by default), and you can run > plasma from there.) > Here's the screen output from running plasma-desktop: $ plasma-desktop QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) QDBusObjectPath: invalid path "" LancelotApplet::init() ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error ERROR from solid predicate parser: syntax error QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 plasma-desktop(6334)/kdecore (KLibrary) kde4Factory: The library "/usr/lib/kde4/solid_hal_power.so" does not offer a qt_plugin_instance function. QObject::connect: Cannot connect (null)::destroyed() to Plasma::ExtenderItem::sourceAppletRemoved() QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 Invalid D-BUS interface name 'org.kde.plasma- desktop.PlasmaApp' found while parsing introspection [chas64@thinkpad ~]$ plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" plasma-desktop(6334): ""CurrencyIntroducedDate" - conversion of "" to QDate failed" " (wrong format: expected 3 items, got 1)" QGraphicsLinearLayout::removeAt: invalid index 0 plasma-desktop(6334)/libplasma Plasma::FrameSvg::resizeFrame: Invalid size QSizeF(0, 0) === end of screen output === Sorry about the html posting. I was accessing this list via a gmail account that I usually read on the web rather than through a mail or usenet client. I switched over to knode. Thanks for all your help. I'm starting to get a little hopeful now. -dhave ___________________________________________________ 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.