KDE4.1- Plasma crashing

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 12:09 -0600, linuxguy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 09:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> <snip> 
> > > 
> > > 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 &
> 
> That didn't work.
> 
> $ kquitapp plasma && plasma &
> [1] 4204
> $ <unknown program name>(4205)/: Application "plasma" could not be found
> using service "org.kde.plasma" and path "/MainApplication" .
> 
> > 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
> 
> This worked very well.  I copied .kde-backup/share/apps to my new .kde
> directory and I could log in without an error.   It didn't work if I
> copied .kde-backup/share though.
> 
> I hope this helps someone.
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probably had something in ~/.kde/share/config that was a problem

Craig