KDE4.1- Plasma crashing

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 10:13 -0600, linuxguy wrote:
> On booting F9 with the recent KDE4.1 update, I get:
> 
> 
> A Fatal Error Occurred
> The application Plasma Workspace (plasma) crashed and caused the signal
> 11 (SIGSEGV).
> Please help us improve the software you use by filing a report at
> http://bugs.kde.org. Useful details include how to reproduce the error,
> documents that were loaded, etc.
> 
> $ plasma
> Plasma crashed, attempting to automatically recover
> plasma(2836): Communication problem with  "plasma" , it probably
> crashed.
> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message
> did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
> 
> KCrash: Application 'plasma' crashing...
> sock_file=/home/krlux/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit4__0
> [krlux at localhost ~]$ plasma(2842): Communication problem with
> "plasma" , it probably crashed.
> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message
> did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> How does one wipe all the previous desktop settings out ?
----
before you do that - try this...

as user in konsole...

kquitapp plasma && plasma &

but to answer your question...

<Control><Alt><F1> # to get to a virtual console
login as your normal user account
mv .kde .kde-bak
<Control><Alt<F7> # to get back to graphical login
login as usual - any settings/mail/whatever you need will be in your
$HOME/.kde-bak and you can copy/move back into the newly created
$HOME/.kde directory

Craig