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[98.118.112.22]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s16sm285459qks.90.2019.03.05.17.24.40 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 05 Mar 2019 17:24:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma upgrade heads up for possible problem To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <87486ee3-4ca3-2ee7-2b41-b623214f4ec1@gmail.com> From: Michael Cook Message-ID: Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 20:24:39 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87486ee3-4ca3-2ee7-2b41-b623214f4ec1@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 2c48a15a-cf65-4280-b5c1-5222d68b5f11 X-Archives-Hash: c0ed80daa692571e9477797f7ef2a017 On 3/5/19 7:47 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I just did a KDE plasma upgrade to 5.15.  I ran into a slight problem > that may or may not affect others so I wanted to give a heads up just in > case.  Everything builds fine.  I had no compile or install failures. > What I did run into tho was a missing or more likely crashed > kicker/panel/thingy that is at the bottom of my screen.  It's the thing > that has the clock, desktop switcher, clip board and the K menu as > well.  I never can remember what they call that this week.  Anyway, when > I logged in, it came up for just a second or two and then disappeared. > Obviously, you can't switch desktops in the normal way but if you use > the ctrl and functions keys, it doesn't act or look like it normally > should since there doesn't appear to be any background at all.  Example, > I have Kpatience on desktop 6.  If I switch to it with the ctrl function > keys, I can play the game normally.  However, if I switch to what at > startup is a empty desktop, #5 for example, the game still shows but > doesn't work.  If I switch back to desktop 6, it works as it should > again.  Whatever it is, it doesn't redraw the screen when you switch if > you don't have something already running there.  Other programs behaved > in a similar way.  It makes it look like all desktops are on one desktop > yet switching still works.  It's plenty weird.  Also, there is no K menu > so you can't start any programs that doesn't open from a saved session > on login.  Trust me, if you run into this, you won't miss it.  Even if > you don't notice the panel thingy at the bottom missing, you will notice > the rest.  It gets in your face and yells loudly that something ain't > right.  lol > > What little bit of error I found mentioned something about a missing > input.  To be honest tho, I'm not sure it was related to what I saw > happening.  None of the errors looked like a complete failure but more > as a informational type message.  Sort of like video drivers that have > the "--" or "II".  They show something didn't work as expected but it > found a way around it or works without it. > > I don't have enough info to file a bug.  The way I fixed it, I did a > emerge -e world.  It might be that a emerge -ek would fix it but to be > sure, I let it recompile everything.  It didn't quite finish when I > tried to login and it worked normally.  If I had a clue what package it > was that was causing this, I'd certainly file a bug but it could be any > number of packages.  I suspect it is a dependency myself.  Something > needed to be rebuilt but wasn't for some reason. > > I hope no one runs into this but if you do, make sure you at least have > a back up GUI installed, even if it doesn't give you anything but the > basics, at least you have a GUI.  You may also want to make sure you > have time to deal with this just in case you do run into this problem. > Having something so you can go back to 5.14 easily may work as well. > > Best of luck to all.  I hope no one else hits this.  It was plenty weird. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > > Doing a revdep-rebuild.sh found the issue for me. (Note the newer version of this script without .sh did not find the issue)