when I click start menu button.
I’m getting this error message
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/main.qml:174:25: Type FullRepresentation unavailable
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/FullRepresentation.qml:69:13: Type Header unavailable
file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.kickoff/contents/ui/Header.qml:182:9: Type PlasmaExtras.SearchField unavailable
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/plasma/extras/SearchField.qml:69:9: Type Kirigami.Action unavailable
file:///usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/qml/org/kde/kirigami/Action.qml:13:1: Cannot load library /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/qml/org/kde/kirigami/private/libKirigamiPrivateplugin.so: libKirigamiPrivate.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I’ve been trying to find if this was a known issue. I had this problem yesterday on my personal laptop, and today also on a work laptop I use for browsing, email. I have been using Neon Testing for many years, and I know these issues can happen, but it has been mostly stable until the Plasma 6 transition. Hopefully this gets sorted soon. This missing library breaks most plasma apps, some widgets/plasmoids, screen locking, etc.
Which distro version are you running?
It seems libKirigamiPrivate.so is missing from the current kf6-kirigami package, version 6.3.0+p22.04+vstable+git20240709.0154-0 on my system.
Could it be related to changes around MR 1582?
Hopefully this gets solved with 6.4.0 or some patch soon. It breaks the whole desktop.
It seems that this bug that also raised it’s head in 2016… thankfully it’s not an issue on Manjaro (Testing) - but for sure, Neon is looking pretty unstable these days.
Does the same thing happen when you use keyboard? try a TEST user account?
In Neon it was solved with the latest updates. Since plasma-discover is broken for you with this bug, you need to open a terminal and issue an update manually.
Ctrl + Alt + T should work to open Konsole, then issue in the command line the following commands:
To update the package information with the newest updates, sudo runs this command as a super user, so it will ask you for your password again, and won’t output anything while you type it, so just write it and hit Enter:
$ sudo apt update
Then the following to install the new packages, and since you already inserted your password for sudo above, it won’t ask you again for some minutes:
$ sudo pkcon update
It should run some tests and ask you if you want to proceed, answer Y and hit Enter.
Any other questions let us know. I hope my description above is clear enough for you to get everything running as expected again.