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Howdy, |
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I just did a KDE plasma upgrade to 5.15. I ran into a slight problem |
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that may or may not affect others so I wanted to give a heads up just in |
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case. Everything builds fine. I had no compile or install failures. |
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What I did run into tho was a missing or more likely crashed |
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kicker/panel/thingy that is at the bottom of my screen. It's the thing |
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that has the clock, desktop switcher, clip board and the K menu as |
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well. I never can remember what they call that this week. Anyway, when |
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I logged in, it came up for just a second or two and then disappeared. |
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Obviously, you can't switch desktops in the normal way but if you use |
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the ctrl and functions keys, it doesn't act or look like it normally |
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should since there doesn't appear to be any background at all. Example, |
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I have Kpatience on desktop 6. If I switch to it with the ctrl function |
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keys, I can play the game normally. However, if I switch to what at |
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startup is a empty desktop, #5 for example, the game still shows but |
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doesn't work. If I switch back to desktop 6, it works as it should |
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again. Whatever it is, it doesn't redraw the screen when you switch if |
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you don't have something already running there. Other programs behaved |
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in a similar way. It makes it look like all desktops are on one desktop |
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yet switching still works. It's plenty weird. Also, there is no K menu |
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so you can't start any programs that doesn't open from a saved session |
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on login. Trust me, if you run into this, you won't miss it. Even if |
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you don't notice the panel thingy at the bottom missing, you will notice |
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the rest. It gets in your face and yells loudly that something ain't |
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right. lol |
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What little bit of error I found mentioned something about a missing |
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input. To be honest tho, I'm not sure it was related to what I saw |
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happening. None of the errors looked like a complete failure but more |
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as a informational type message. Sort of like video drivers that have |
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the "--" or "II". They show something didn't work as expected but it |
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found a way around it or works without it. |
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I don't have enough info to file a bug. The way I fixed it, I did a |
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emerge -e world. It might be that a emerge -ek would fix it but to be |
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sure, I let it recompile everything. It didn't quite finish when I |
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tried to login and it worked normally. If I had a clue what package it |
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was that was causing this, I'd certainly file a bug but it could be any |
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number of packages. I suspect it is a dependency myself. Something |
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needed to be rebuilt but wasn't for some reason. |
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I hope no one runs into this but if you do, make sure you at least have |
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a back up GUI installed, even if it doesn't give you anything but the |
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basics, at least you have a GUI. You may also want to make sure you |
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have time to deal with this just in case you do run into this problem. |
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Having something so you can go back to 5.14 easily may work as well. |
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Best of luck to all. I hope no one else hits this. It was plenty weird. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |