Package: kde-core Version: 4:3.1.2 Severity: important I just upgraded from the standard Debian KDE 2.2.2 to 3.1 (unstable). When I started up, my desktop was almost entirely blank. There was no taskbar at the bottom. I think this is produced by the kicker program. (By "taskbar" I mean the whole bar at the bottom, not just the menu from the K icon on the left).
There were icons for home and trash on the desktop. Left clicking produced a useful menu. I tried rebooting my computer, but the behavior persisted. I tried running kicker explicitly, but it had no effect. .xsession-errors had much chatter (most of which I still see after fixing the problem), but nothing obviously related. I finally cured the problem by moving my .kde directory and .kderc file aside and letting KDE regenerate them. It asked me some questions about setup when I first started. My .kde and .kderc before this were pretty generic, having only recently been generated by KDE 2.2.2 as I solved some other problems. In discussion on debian-kde, and various other FAQ's and aids, I was told that this upgrade path should work. It was also pointed out that losing the info in .kde could be a major inconvenience for some users. Finally, I was told to file a bug if I found problems. I did, so here's the bug. I've assigned it a higher severity since the disappearance of the taskbar may give many users the impression that things are completely broken. Further, my work-around may be highly inconvenient even for those who know what they're doing. You may change the priority or package assignment as you see fit. My install was based on apt-get install kde-core, so I'm using this package as the target for the bug. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux wheat 2.4.21advncdfs #1 Wed Sep 17 22:06:42 PDT 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US Versions of packages kde-core depends on: ii arts 1.1.5-2 Analog Realtime Synthesizer (aRts) ii fontconfig 2.2.1-13 generic font configuration library ii kdebase 4:3.1.5-1 KDE Base metapackage ii kdelibs 4:3.1.5-1 KDE core libraries metapackage -- no debconf information
