From: thorongil@telenet.be   
      
   On Saturday 04 March 2017 13:36, grinch conveyed the following to   
   alt.os.linux.suse...   
      
   > On 04/03/17 11:40, Aragorn wrote:   
   >   
   >> More likely would be that something specific ─ like the Network   
   >> Manager applet or ntpd would be trying to connect to the internet and   
   >> would be failing after a timeout.   
   >   
   > I agree but why is it only plasma 5 which has the issue.   
   >   
   > What I have noticed is that desktop icons appear after about 2 minutes   
   > after login but they don't work and there is no desktop.   
      
   That is definitely not normal.  Just for kicks, have you tried deleting   
   /var/tmp/kdecache-grinch?   
      
   Don't worry about deleting something valuable with it if you do, because   
   it'll be rebuilt upon the next login.  However, I have found that in   
   /some/ cases, it may remedy certain corruption.   
      
   > I am not a newbie but I am no Linux expert either, how could I debug   
   > this issue and perhaps contribute in some small way to fixing it ?   
      
   Try by deleting the cache first, as I suggested above.  Then at least   
   we'll know whether that was the root of the problem or not.   
      
   If the problem still persists, then try updating the system to the   
   latest stable versions of all packages, and add a few mirrors to your   
   package manager.  It is possible that, during an earlier update, only   
   part of the packages were downloaded due to a glitch at one of the repo   
   mirrors.  I've had a similar issue here with Google Chrome earlier this   
   week.   
      
   If the problem still persists after all of the above, then my best   
   advice would be that you file a bug report, because this seems like a   
   serious enough issue for the package wranglers to look into.   
      
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