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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

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

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

  1. KΓ‘roly 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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  3. 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.

  4. brando on May 5, 2009 at 6:02 pm said:

    Thanks for your precious info. πŸ™‚

    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.

  5. 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

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

    Thank you !!!! You saved my day ! πŸ™‚

  7. 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! πŸ˜€

    Thanks so much! πŸ˜€

  8. Jose on May 24, 2009 at 7:25 pm said:

    Thank you.

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

    Thanks for a lot. It spares me a lot of time.

  10. 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.

  11. 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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  13. 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

  14. fixl on June 15, 2009 at 9:27 am said:

    Thank you! You just spared me a lot of time πŸ™‚

  15. 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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  17. Howe on June 21, 2009 at 6:41 pm said:

    Thank you.

  18. 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! πŸ™‚

  19. 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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  21. 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 πŸ˜€

  22. Mani on December 12, 2011 at 6:38 am said:

    Thanks . It solved my problem πŸ™‚

  23. 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

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

    i did that but have a message “no command”

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