bork, re-bork, unbork

By basd on Jun 2, 2009 | In kde4, opensuse, arghhh!!

I have been growing rather fond of my plasma desktop of late, since it has been stable, attractive a useful.

...

Then I went to login so as to RDP on over to my employer's desktop and read my official email.

Oops. Probably relating to my YAST OpenSUSE updates yesterday, when I logged in, my plasma desktop appeared, died, re-appeared -- then re-died and stayed dead.

Just in case this was a one-off occurrence, I tried a few more times. Which used up considerable battery, re-booting and all. Each time with predictably identical results.

But, whahahahah! Since I run a kicker panel AND since I have links in a cascading folder on the kicker panel to all my frequently used programs, I was able to connect up my blackberry, surf on over to the master-server website and run my official XP desktop just like I was back in the office.

Mission accomplished, but what's with the re-bork? Oh, no -- now I have to reconstruct my desktop again...

Well, as it were, I installed today's YAST OpenSUSE updates, whereupon my plasma desktop has seemingly unborked. All except the YAWP weather widget, which I had to remove due to it having been first-to-bork after yesterday's updates.

But, then again, I haven't yet re-booted, so I'm not certain if the system is un-borked or not.

Thank you for visiting and have a pleasant tomorrow.