HELP! Lost KDE Panel and Sound
Using apt/synaptic, I decided to do an upgrade of all the things it suggested on my FC1 laptop (yea, I know - it was dumb!). The process proceeded with no issues but when I rebooted my machine, my menu panel in KDE disappeared from the lower part of my screen and I get errors right after boot up that it can't find my sound driver. Something else I noticed during boot up; the login screen was different. Before the box where I entered my user name and password was only a few inches across. Now it's much longer than before.
I can live without my sound for a while, but without my panel, I can't figure out how to run any apps. I was able to get this web browser working only because it was an icon on my desktop and those seem to be there. I also have a "start here" icon on the desktop which I was able to see the configuration for the panel but after playing with it I still can't get it to come back. Thanks! BS |
As a stop-gap measure to get the panel back, you might try pressing Alt+F2 and typing
Code:
kicker The sound driver problem is likely to be caused by a change to your kernel configuration/build. You'll find some error messages by running Code:
dmesg | less |
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried "kicker" and got a crash message. It's titled, "KDE Panel - The KDE Crash Handeler". Under the short description, it says, "The application KDE Panel (kicker) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)." This message is popping up when I first boot up too but I didn't notice it had to do with the panel 'til just now. Any thoughts?
BS |
It looks like some of your KDE libraries haven't been upgraded properly.
Try and run konsole. If that fails, run xterm. If that fails, press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and log in on a text console (Alt+F7 will get you back to the GUI). Now run Code:
whereis kicker Code:
ldd /path/to/kicker |
Below are the results of your suggestion. Not exactly sure what I'm looking at here but there doesn't seem to be anything standing out here. Can I just remove kicker and reinstall it?
BS [wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$ whereis kicker kicker: /usr/bin/kicker [wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$ ldd /usr/bin/kicker libkdeinit_kicker.so => /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kicker.so (0x4e33b000) libkonq.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkonq.so.4 (0x4e2a4000) libkparts.so.2 => /usr/lib/libkparts.so.2 (0x4e25c000) libkickermain.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkickermain.so.1 (0x4e328000) libkio.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.4 (0x4defb000) libkdeui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.4 (0x4dc24000) libkdesu.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdesu.so.4 (0x4e240000) libkwalletclient.so.1 => /usr/lib/libkwalletclient.so.1 (0x4e22e000) libkdecore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 (0x4d95c000) libDCOP.so.4 => /usr/lib/libDCOP.so.4 (0x4db8d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x41177000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x4a3e5000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x41531000) libkdefx.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkdefx.so.4 (0x4dbf6000) libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x4d1f1000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x4125c000) libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4117c000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x412aa000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x41291000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x4127f000) libXrender.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x41402000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x4126c000) libXtst.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0x42107000) libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x41324000) libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x41153000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x4131a000) libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x41018000) libart_lgpl_2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2 (0x4146f000) libidn.so.11 => /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 (0x4dbc4000) libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x487c2000) libfam.so.0 => /usr/lib/libfam.so.0 (0x41521000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x41000000) libXft.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x41435000) libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x412b4000) libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x4140c000) libmng.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmng.so.1 (0x4d8fc000) libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x41449000) libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x41469000) libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x41536000) libexpat.so.0 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 (0x413e0000) liblcms.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblcms.so.1 (0x447f6000) [wswartz@ibmt30 wswartz]$ |
OK, I got it figured out. I was searching google when I found this page:
http://dot.kde.org/1070894366/1071568194/ Which mentioned trying the following: "You can remove ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc and then start kicker from command line. It will run kde panel with default settings so you will need to customize it again." I did this and like it worked. Like it was mentioned, I had to redo my panel, but that's much better then reloading the OS! And as for the sound - it started working too. Not sure why but it started before I began monkeying with the panel so I'm pretty sure it wasn't that (but you never know!). Thanks for the suggestions. BS |
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