I also had upgraded to the slackware64 current Fri Oct 14 01:39:37 UTC 2022 level this morning.


I seem to have lost my icons (aka they became invisible) from the main panel, start menu, desktop. Half the apps do not correctly display fonts.

In case this was a configuration issue / KDE cache issue, I had another user account that had no Plasma / X11 installed settings and did a startx from scratch from runlevel 3. The same issue appeared. On this machine I start KDE from the runlevel 3 console prompt.

In the past I had no issues upgrading for the past 2 years affecting slackware64 current affecting KDE Plasma desktop and applications and framework.

At present everything appears to be working correctly otherwise.

Did I miss a step other than slackpkg updates in going to Plasma 5.26.0, Applications 22.08.2, & Frameworks 5.99 ?

Should I clear out the KDE cache and how does one do this?

Anybody else encounter this particular issue?

Guys, you can reproduce those issues while using a brand new user account?

Considering the jump of all KDE software sets, I suggest you to test this.

For my issue of the invisible icons, I had done that as part of the initial debugging this morning. The second account only had the .screenrc file and nothing else. Thus knew it had nothing to do with .config/ files as everything was started from scratch for that user account.

> Guys, you can reproduce those issues while using a brand new user account?

Yes. I have desktop icons on a new account, but no application menu bar. My default account that worked fine until I applied this current kde upgrade, now no application menu bar on new or old accounts. Right-click desktop: none of the Add Panel options do anything. I have to use Alt-F2 or konsole to launch anything.
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In case someone has already read the above, I cannot delete the message, but I need to change and/or append things. When I did a full mirror download and ran updatepkg --install-new, much to my amazement, kpipewire and iniparser were added. The error in my ways was to omit the '--install-new' switch for recent package upgrades. Sure enough, when I rebooted and started kde, full function was restored.

If pain persists, make sure you have kpipwire installed.

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May I suggest you this thread:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175698890/

All important information is in the title each time updates are published
This way, you will never miss additions again

+ the changelog is in full HD with very nice colors, to easily identify matching packages

My issue is resolved as well with a full update incl. new packages. I had seen the new packages but didn't initially think anything there was anything related. My bad ...

Thanks, Robby

After the last upgrade on slackware current, the panel is fully missed. Additionally, I am not be able to add it. Neither default or empty panel.
Any suggestions?

@tuxuxer1 have you done this yet? "slackpkg install-new"

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Just done and it worked.
Thanks

By habit every slackware64 current update I do, I do the following

removepkg xxxxx [where xxxxx is a package that has become obsolete/deprecated is listed as
removed in the ChangeLog -- does not happen that often but occasionally does]
slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
vi /etc/lilo.conf
/sbin/lilo
ldconfig -v
reboot

kpipwire was installed with all the other packages.

If nobody else encountered the problem I encountered, the only thing I can think of is that one or more of the packages was corrupted during the download from the archive sites. I keep a rsynced mirror of the slackware64 current locally and update from that.

The Plasma 5.26.1 update comes down the pipe on Tuesday aka 2022-10-18 and see if that rectifies anything. If that does not work may have to look at a clean install of the KDE Plasma desktop packages then frameworks then applications.

At present held off updating my second slackware64 current machine and have kept it at the updates of Wed Oct 12 19:21:37 UTC 2022 [Kernel 5.19.15]

By the chance, Plasma 5.26 has the codename "Angry Rottweiler" ?

Seems like it chewed the sorry arse of everybody from this town.

I ran into the same issue re: icons. Thr trick that I stumbled across was to run slackpkg search slackware64. This will show the installed files AND the uninstalled files, if there are any. This saves me some grief trying to track down what the problem might be following an update :-)

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Thanks -- very useful command.

Unfortunately shows everything is installed.

That's right. It says inst (red font) for installed packages. If a package is uninstalled, it's blue and says something like uninst.