After an update the Dolphin file manager has the fields empty except for the places panel. Underneath the editqable location bar is the error message:
Unable to create io-slave. klauncher said: Error loading ‘/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so’. The same happens when I go to save as and the file manager comes up. I tried to use Konqueror and when I open it I get the message:
There was an error loading the module WebKit.
The diagnostics is:
Failed to extract plugin meta data from ‘/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/parts/libkwebkitpart.so’
Whenever I try to do something this same error message “There was an error loading the module WebKit” comes up
just for your information:
ls -l /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 110960 Dec 10 00:38 /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/file.so
So I tried to reboot but I could not get into the GUI. Startup seemed OK right to the login but then the screen only flickered with the light bulb symbol and never got further. I use Ctrl, Alt and F1 to get into the command line and used snapper to roll back to a snapshot 2 days ago. Now I can log in again and use the computer. But what next - the packagekit lists several updates now. Anyway here are the repos:
I’ll guess that you are using the unstable KDE repos for that, while I’m getting it from the standard repos (the main OSS repo). In that case, you might have an inconsistency. You might be getting some packages from the standard repos and some from the unstable KDE repos, and those might be incompatible. Try redoing the repo switch to the unstable repos (if I have guessed correctly about your repos).
Thanks nrickert, I updated the Plasma desktop since firejail did not work with the normal Leap desktop - I remember some error message I think it was somthing with QT5. However firejail worked with Tumbleweed which had a newer version of this package in the error message. So I added the repos for a later version of the plasma desktop and everything worked fine there. What repos Do you think are unstable and should not be used? What would happen if I disabled those - then I still might have a mixture of already installed packages from the newer desktop and some from the older stable desktop. What would be the best way? By now that QT5 package might be updated anyway and the problem with firejail might be obsolete. So I could try to get back to the standard desktop. I presume for that I would have to remove all the extra KDE repos and do a zypper dup as some downgrading might be necessary? Or have you a better suggestion?
By unstable, I mean the additional KDE repos (KDE:Extra or some name like that). I call them “unstable” just to contrast to the standard repos, which are more thoroughly tested. But I’m not suggesting that there is anything necessarily wrong with them. I would guess your problem is mixing incompatible components.
If you move everything back to the standard repos, that would probably fix your problem. But maybe moving all of KDE to the unstable repos would also fix it. It’s having a mixture that is most likely to cause problems.
Thank you nrickert, I disabled repo 1, (KDE Applications) 9 (KDE QT5) and 10 (KDE Framework 5) and did an update and now everything is back to normal and working (including firejail).