Fatal error occurs at kde startup

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Hi guys,
I previously had opensuse 11 with factory build kde (4.0). I also have compiz effects enabled. I decided to upgrade kde to 4.1.3. First of all, I disabled compiz and switched to kwin. Then I successfully updated kde and all dependencies too. At next reboot kde starts loading and finally give me an error as follows and leaves me with nothing but a blank screen.

A fatal error occured
The application plasma workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)

I am not able to post log here because my windows partitions are not writable. How can I change these permissions from failsafe root login? I am not familiar with any linux commands…:frowning:
Can you guys please help me out?

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Login to icewm
open a terminal and do this:

mv /home/uernme/.kde4 .kde4old

now try kde4 again

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i used this command as root
mv /home/akshay/.kde4 /home/akshay/kde4old

and it worked as it restored all settings to default
Thank you !!!

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Good. Well done.

Just to say:
going by your re-name - you will probably find the old folder is now not hidden as you didn’t include a .

mv /home/akshay/.kde4 /home/akshay/kde4old

see the difference

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Yeah I got that. Thanks… I have one more question, I hope you don’t mind asking it here.:wink:

To access my windows partitions to write data in it, I have to everytime start sudo file manager.

Is there any workaround for this?? I want to access my windows partitions with write permissions as normal user.

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how to here

HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11

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Thanks again, changed my fstab accordingly and now my windows partitions are also writable by normal users.lol!

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There is a slightly lighter way to solve the fatal error of the plasma workspace. Delete the plasmarc and plasma-appletrc files in .kde4/share/config/ folder. This only resets the plasma to default and not all the other kde4 apps