Plasma Workspace Crash After Upgrade to KDE 4.5

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Hi guys,

I have just upgraded KDE to 4.5 but after reboot and login i can’t see my desktop. Only cursor, blank screen, and a window says:

Plasma Workspaces - The KDE Crash Handler
We are sorry, Plasma Workspaces closed unexpectedly.
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Details:
Executable: KDEinit4 PID:3787 Signal: 8 (Floating Point Exception)

My PC:
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+
GeForce 6100 nForce 405
openSUSE 11.3 32-bit
Using nVidia driver.

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Try this

Do a console login
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10573557/Session%20Login/console.login.png

At the command line, login with your user name and password.

Now do this:

mv .kde4 .kde4-bak

Now type:

startx

If you get to the desktop, all your settings will have gone, but they are in the folder we just renamed

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Still can’t go to desktop for the same error :frowning:

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One thing to try is to try reverting the NVIDIA driver back to version 256.53 as there are problems with the latest NVIDIA driver at the moment.

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I installed nvidia driver this way nVidia Driver via Repo in 11.3 - Guide

If I want to revert back to 256 version what i have to do?

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What is the output of:

zypper lr -d

and

rpm -qa '*nvidia*'
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zypper lr -d

  1. KDE_4.5
    Index of /repositories/KDE:/Release:/45/openSUSE_11.3
  2. Packman
  3. nVidia_Repository_for_11.3
    http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/11.3/
  4. repo-debug
  5. repo-non-oss
  6. repo-oss
  7. repo-source
  8. repo-update

rpm -qa 'nvidia’
nvidia-gfxG02-kmp-default-260.19.29_K2.6.34.0_12-21.1.i586
x11-video-nvidiaG02-260.19.29-22.1.i586

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Nevermind, i restored opensuse image that i made before upgrade to KDE 4.5 to current partition.

Thanks caf and ah7013 for your help.

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Update:
I removed 260.19 driver then installed 256.53 version which I got from please_try_again post NVIDIA 260.19 Issues.

Upgrade to kde 4.5 and everything works fine :smiley:

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Great! Glad it worked :slight_smile:

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Thanks, Andrew! :smiley:

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Hi.
Just installed opensuse 11.4 and have the same issue.

I did the above, and that did me to get running again.

But what to do to get really rid of the issue ?.
/Erik

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One of the differences in 11.4 from earlier releases is the session login.
In 11.4 kde you should be sure you have selected kde4-plasma-workspace option.

Other than that Erik, I’m not sure why you would have a problem (other than the fact that .kde4 does have it’s random moments) :smiley: