How to Fix KDE 4.1 Plasma Workspace
Upgrading to KDE 4.1 in Fedora 9 I received this error message.
Plasma Workspace - The KDE Crash Handler
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 detail include hot to reproduce the error, documents that were loaded, etc.
The error is also occurring in other distros like Kubuntu and Mandriva.
How to fix KDE 4.1
Get to your login screen and choose “console login” from the menu. From the console you will delete two files in the plasma configuration and this will fix the problem.
Here are the command line commands you will need.
cd ~/.kde/share/config
rm plasma-appletsrc
rm plasmarc
reboot
In Kubuntu the first command will be cd ~/.kde4/share/config because there is the .kde folder for KDE3 and the .kde4 folder for KDE4 (Which will be phased out in Intrepid Ibex).
Instead of rebooting you could try startx to login to the graphical desktop, but it’s probably best to reboot anyway. Removing these two files will reset plasma to the default configuration. I believe that something about haveing moved and/or resized the panel is not allowable with KDE4.1 and that is what is causing the crash. If you haven’t made any modifications to the panel, you might not get the error. If you do get the plasma error in KDE 4.1, that’s all there is to it. Happy computing.