No errors. Rebooted and still nothing.
Are you still getting the identical error from the picture in the first post?
Yes
This might be a case for downgrading the icu package, but that may have other repercussions for their system.
Appears to be a missed KDE kicker dependency.
There is a plasma-workspace update as of a few hours ago, that may not have yet hit all mirrors. 5.26.1-2
He is already on that version.
He has the same version of icu and plasma-workspace as me and I have no issues. It is very strange.
Is it possible to reset?
Hrm. It’s a runtime error. The icu package deals with unicode. Guess is the user has a locale/setting set that is tripping up inside the KDE libraries and making a call looking for the older icu that others aren’t seeing due to being on a different locale/setting.
out of the box ideas:
- make links from all the icu 72 .so’s and create icu 71 links. Hold nose, reboot, pray.
- perhaps install some light graphical WM like openbox or fluxbox or similar, perhaps along with xorg-xinit, and startx that up. Proceed into #3.
- wait for KDE devs to figure this out. Might help to put a bug into their forums, their reddit, and other similar places.
- via tty and ctrl-alt-F{2,3.4} maybe reset locale to a western one.
plasma-workspace-5.26.1-3 just updated 2 hours ago:
upgpkg: plasma-workspace 5.26.1-3: Prevent Plasma from messing with system locales, Arch users are supposed to configure locales themselves
Hopefully this fixes your problem. I did not have any problems with 5.26.1-2, but I also include C.UTF-8 in addition to my en_US.UTF-8, if that makes any difference.