Desktop Icons & Application Bar Gone After Restart

TheDoors1967 · 2026-04-11 17:38:35

Hello all. last night I upgraded my system after many months. At first nothing was wrong, but this morning after starting up again, I was able to login just fine, but my desktop icons are now all gone, and the application bar as well. I then switched to tty3 and rebooted to the same problem.

I'm using KDE, I can use applications just fine, I'm able to use my keyboard shortcut to bring up terminal and Dolphin to navigate around my system. Pressing the Super key no longer brings up the application menu (presumably because it's gone). Even Edit Mode on KDE seems to be broken, because it's very limited on what I can do. I can't "Add or Manage Widgets", that button just doesn't respond to my clicks. And the couple of panels I am able to add just have empty config windows. I'm guessing my KDE is borked, so I reinstalled the plasma suite and rebooted, still same problem.

Any suggestions?

V1del · 2026-04-13 01:23:33

pacman -Qm
pacman -Qqg kf6 plasma | pacman -Q -
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-'  https://paste.c-net.org/

in code tags except for the journal link.

TheDoors1967 · 2026-04-16 02:34:45

Here's the resulting link https://paste.c-net.org/ReginaldSavings

I see some errors regarding Kirigami which I'm told is a framework for KDE? I'm not good with reading logs though so open to your interpretation!

seth · 2026-04-16 06:33:31

We're lacking

pacman -Qm
pacman -Qqg kf6 plasma | pacman -Q -

and you can add

sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup

to that, at least the kirigami and kded packages seem to be broken.

TheDoors1967 · 2026-04-18 04:10:46

I swear I did do those first two commands. Anyway I did them again as well as that last one and here's the resulting log.
https://paste.c-net.org/HecklesSqueezed

I've tried reinstalling Kirigami before but all I get is an error stating that xxx files already exist.

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kirigami: /usr/include/KF6/Kirigami/Platform/PlatformPluginFactory exists in filesystem
kirigami: /usr/include/KF6/Kirigami/Platform/PlatformTheme exists in filesystem
kirigami: /usr/include/KF6/Kirigami/Platform/StyleHints exists in filesystem
... on and on for about 100+ lines

seth · 2026-04-18 07:09:10

That's the jounal, the other two commands would just have posted to the terminal/stdout.

sudo -v; (pacman -Qm; echo '-----------------'; pacman -Qqg kf6 plasma | pacman -Q -; echo '-----------------';   sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup) > /tmp/stuff.txt
cat /tmp/stuff.txt | curl -s -H "Accept: application/json, */*" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

TheDoors1967 · Yesterday 03:39:18

Ohh, sorry I didn't realize what you meant. This should provide the output of those commands.
https://paste.c-net.org/WarmthSunrise

seth · Yesterday 07:17:56

kcmutils: 438 total files, 134 altered files
kglobalaccel: no mtree file
kirigami: 406 total files, 75 altered files

sudo pacman -S --dbonly kglobalaccel
sudo pacman -S kglobalaccel kirigami kcmutils
sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files' | grep -v backup

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#1 2026-04-11 17:38:35

Desktop Icons & Application Bar Gone After Restart

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