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On 3/5/19 7:47 PM, Dale wrote: |
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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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> :-) :-) |
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Doing a revdep-rebuild.sh found the issue for me. (Note the newer |
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version of this script without .sh did not find the issue) |
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