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
Thanks for a lot. It spares me a lot of time.
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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.
Thanks for your precious info. π
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.
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
Thank you !!!! You saved my day ! π
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! π
Thanks so much! π
Thank you.
Thanks for a lot. It spares me a lot of time.
Saved my day (at least second half of it), as i depend on my navigation software heavily.
I got this error after upgrading to KDE 4.3 Beta 2 in Kubuntu 9.04. Thank you so much!
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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
Thank you! You just spared me a lot of time π
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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Thank you.
Thanks so much! Tried to update my kubuntu and it failed. Then came up with that error.
Lucky you were here to save me! π
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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Had the same symptom/problem too, buy your solution didn’t work for me. However reinstalling kdebase-workspace-kgreet-plugins package did π
Thanks . It solved my problem π
Thanks.
I had the error in linux Fedora 16 (64 bits), after a massive update.
Your solution worked perfectly.
Thanks a lot.
Aldo
i did that but have a message “no command”