I upgraded to openSuse 12.3 I seem to have a single pop up at every boot. The pop up says something about plasma requires an additional service, and something about a calendar data engine. It gives me an option to continue or cancel.
Continue option offers no solution, says it can’t find whatever it needs.
On 03/27/2013 02:46 PM, mike7757 wrote:
> The pop up says something about
please provide exactly what it says…
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dd
“exact words” plasma requires an additional service, and calendar data engine
Is this realy at boot? Or is it at login? I ask because plasma is something KDE IIRC and thus belongs to a KDE user login in. Is the user using KDE?
On 03/27/2013 02:46 PM, mike7757 wrote:
> I upgraded to openSuse 12.3
i guess the cause of your troubles lie in how you “upgraded”…
looking around i see that Carlos pointed you to the (only) three
correct ways to upgrade from 12.2 to 12.3 in
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/64-bit/484964-flash-drive-headaches.html#post2540488
and despite that pointer i suspect you somehow got your system messed
up during the upgrade process…
you may eventually figure out how to rescue it, but i could not help
you fix it from here…and, i’d guess if i were sitting at your
keyboard it would still be easier and faster to format and install
12.3 (assuming your data is safe somewhere else, and can be joined in
later)…
You are correct. It is at Logon. When I click on continue, it cannot find a solution for itself. What if i put install dvd back in tray.
I downloaded iso from openSuse site. This was an upgrade instead of install. That is the only hiccup that this pc is doing at this time. I must try to fix small problem.
On 2013-03-27 20:26, mike7757 wrote:
>> I downloaded iso from openSuse site. This was an upgrade instead of
> install. That is the only hiccup that this pc is doing at this time. I
> must try to fix small problem.
Precisely.
Thus, did you follow the instructions for doing upgrades, specially the
tasks to be done after one, as documented in those links dd mentioned?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)
On 03/27/2013 02:46 PM, mike7757 wrote:
> calendar data engine
another user has posted a similar find…i have asked that user to
come to this thread and let the two of you compare: software mix and
how you got to it, as well as hardware…if the common thread points
to a bug in software then the two of you should collaborate in filing
it…but, if the common thread is a particular supported upgrade
path that was correctly followed, then the words in the upgrade
wiki/doc needs updating…
or, if it is just a user error. . .
that other thread is here:
http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=485178
wouldn’t it be nice if both threads had in its subject something
like: KDE 4.10 “calendar data engine”
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
Well, I’m the other user, with the exact same problem. This one appears to me, the same, at (well, more accurate: AFTER) login.
I have a fresh install of Opensuse 12.3 (I never use upgrade option – always backup my data, install as new install, and then recover the needed data from my backup … did this with every version of Opensuse I have used, since about 8.0…)
The bad part is I get this on 2 different hardware (desktop PCs in both cases): one at work, the other at home : both with i386 version of 12.3 (both Pentium D, but different variants), both 2GB of RAM…). So I guess there’s not a decent chance of this being a hardware issue…
As far as I can remember, this came up right after first reboot after install, so I wouldn’t blame any kind of update to any package, also …
I simply blame KDE on something, but … can’t figure out what, exactly.
As I mentioned on my other post, I just tried to save some of my favorite settings on the calendar widget: activating holiday displaying when I open it — btw, it’s the default KDE’s widget for clock/calendar – the one that usually stays in the lower-right corner of the display); I set my favorite holiday displaying for the countries I prefer, click on Apply, but the next time I re-open the settings for the clock/calendar widget, those settings are gone again… (and, of course, the calendar doesn’t offer the required holidays, even when I select some particular day which should be a holiday, like my own country’s national day…)
So I suppose, this is in some way related to that error after login (with the plasma engine trying to install any sort of additional service for the calendar…)
I don’t know … if there’s something else I could come up with, please ask, in order to figure out what’s the problem …
Hello,
I had the same problem. After installing “kdebase4-workspace-plasma-calendar” I had no more problem.
On 03/28/2013 12:26 PM, corneld wrote:
> I set my favorite holiday displaying for the countries I prefer, click
> on Apply, but the next time I re-open the settings for the
> clock/calendar widget, those settings are gone again…
ah…i think this is maybe related to that newfangled systemd thing…
i know there was a YaST fault which popped up late last week in which
the desired firewall settings are not “remembered” though a
boot…and i think that was caused by systemd…so, maybe this is
the same…
but i do NOT know enough about systemd to say for sure…maybe a
systemd expert will drop in and advise to write a bug without knowing
for sure…heck, you been on this horse since 8.x, you can decide to
move on that without my approval (i’ve only been here since about 9.1)
but, why has it hit only two? thousands have installed it!!!
maybe you both had this KDE calender previously… (i use KDE and
don’t have any idea what calendar you might refer to–i use Google
calendar because i like them knowing what i’m doing 
(or maybe so
i can check it on any device anywhere any time…even in other
countries…when my smart phone is no longer smart)
This also fixed my problem.
I was searching through Google and saw a number of postings with this same or similar issue (dictionary,calendar). I do believe they were all in the 12.3_64 os. One guy uninstalled his calendar to fix his problem. I’m glad I didn’t.
Thank You for every ones time.
On 03/28/2013 02:26 PM, mike7757 wrote:
> I’m glad I didn’t.
does that mean the fix given also worked for you??
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dd
The problem is fixed
Thanks
On 03/28/2013 10:36 PM, mike7757 wrote:
> The problem is fixed
happy to hear!!
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
Yes, this fixed my issue too (both the problem with the popup window with that error about plasma needing to install something, and the other one, with the calendar not remembering my settings about showing holidays for the selected countries I choose…)
Thanx, again for the tip.