KDE: How to fix “No greeter widget plugin loaded” error

April 14, 2009 4:38 pm / Albertech.net

I was helping one of the staff today with their Debian setup. KDE somehow broke after they did an apt-get update. Turns out there must have been like 40-50 packages that must have been in the update and thus one of them broke during the upgrade.

Upon startup, there was a unique error message that came up with KDE during the startup phase — “No greeter widget plugin loaded. Check the configuration.” with an OK box. Clicking the OK box would lead to KDE exiting to shell. Reinstalling kdm had no effect. The fix?

apt-get install kdebase-workspace

Seems like the dependency of kde install/update is missing the kdebase-workspace package.

To check to see if this works, restart KDE by going to
/etc/init.d/kdm stop /etc/init.d/kdm start

Posted in: Linux / Tagged: debian, greeter widget, kde

24 Thoughts on “KDE: How to fix “No greeter widget plugin loaded” error”

Károly Nagy on April 15, 2009 at 5:27 pm said:

Thanks for a lot. It spares me a lot of time.
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jaminja on April 30, 2009 at 10:14 pm said:

Thanks for this. I just spent half a day on and off upgrading a
Debian lenny to unstable and with it KDE 3.5.10 to 4.2.1 – had to
do it but at 0400 I get that errormsg x-|. Fixed now, many thanks.
brando on May 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm said:

Thanks for your precious info. 🙂

I was upgrading from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04. And, getting this “greeter widget” message and can’t get to the KDE windows.

Now, I can get in the windows, but I can’t move the terminals, or anything that I open.
Marc on May 18, 2009 at 12:12 pm said:

After an update on my Debian-pc I got the “greeter widget” error-message.

I reinstalled kdebase-workspace through aptitude from a shell, rebooted and KDE worked fine again.

Thanks
Freitas on May 19, 2009 at 10:57 am said:

Thank you !!!! You saved my day ! 🙂
Jonathan Busby on May 21, 2009 at 11:09 am said:

I experienced this problem when I upgraded from KDE 4.2.3 to KDE 4.3 Beta 1 in Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. Your solution worked perfectly! 😀

Thanks so much! 😀
Jose on May 24, 2009 at 7:25 pm said:

Thank you.
PB on May 28, 2009 at 10:30 am said:

Thanks for a lot. It spares me a lot of time.
uldics on June 13, 2009 at 3:11 am said:

Saved my day (at least second half of it), as i depend on my navigation software heavily.
Ales on June 13, 2009 at 4:55 am said:

I got this error after upgrading to KDE 4.3 Beta 2 in Kubuntu 9.04. Thank you so much!
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drobzone on June 14, 2009 at 4:41 am said:

That just saved me a whole lot of time, I just restarted my pc and got the error.
Re-installed the workspace and I am back on-line again.

Thank you so much
fixl on June 15, 2009 at 9:27 am said:

Thank you! You just spared me a lot of time 🙂
DIM on June 18, 2009 at 7:59 am said:

Thanks a lot. You saved me a lot of time. That little 4.2 to 4.3b2 upgrade was a total disaster. I thought I’ll spend a lot of time with my new GNOME friend.
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Howe on June 21, 2009 at 6:41 pm said:

Thank you.
Troy on June 23, 2009 at 6:40 am said:

Thanks so much! Tried to update my kubuntu and it failed. Then came up with that error.

Lucky you were here to save me! 🙂
Voltaire on June 29, 2009 at 3:25 pm said:

Always nice to see that someone took the time to post this useful (and working) resolution to this otherwise annoying error.

Thanks!
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Wulfram on August 14, 2009 at 4:35 pm said:

Had the same symptom/problem too, buy your solution didn’t work for me. However reinstalling kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins package did 😀
Mani on December 12, 2011 at 6:38 am said:

Thanks . It solved my problem 🙂
Aldo on December 28, 2011 at 5:41 pm said:

Thanks.
I had the error in linux Fedora 16 (64 bits), after a massive update.

Your solution worked perfectly.

Thanks a lot.

Aldo
tony on April 25, 2012 at 4:26 am said:

i did that but have a message “no command”