[SOLVED] Kwin refusing to launch after recent upgrade to KDE 4.13.1

Hi,
I upgraded from 4.13 to 4.13.1 and I have this problem:
➜ ~ kwin
kwin: error while loading shared libraries: libkactivities.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
How can I fix this? I cannot see desktop, all I can do is to run ALT+F2 and run konsole...
Last edited by trapanator (2014-05-21 08:58:12)

arojas wrote:That's not the right way to fix it. libkactivities.so.6 is now in libkactivities4, which should have been installed as a dependency of kdebase-runtime. Make sure your system is fully up to date.
You're right. Pacman screwed my configuration. Now it's fixed! Thank you in advance :-)

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