I had a virtual machine in Virtualbox with Fedora Rawhide on it. In the last days I always got a black screen after login, I can only see mouse pointer and bring up the process manager (with CTRL-ESC), but nothing more.
I thought about my machine was broken somehow, so I've reinstalled it from scratch... but I get the same result.
I don't think it's a Virtualbox graphic problem because the process manager window shows up fine... is anyone experiencing the same issue? Maybe plasma-desktop is broken in rawhide?
Thanks Mattia
On 02/18/2017 02:58 PM, Mattia Verga wrote:
I had a virtual machine in Virtualbox with Fedora Rawhide on it. In the last days I always got a black screen after login, I can only see mouse pointer and bring up the process manager (with CTRL-ESC), but nothing more.
I had a similar issue after a recent update. Just as a test, I created a new user (i.e. fresh home directory) and that worked fine, so I figured it might be something in my existing profile that was an issue. I cleaned up a bunch of temp and cache files that looked KDE/Plasma related and the next time I logged in, everything was fine. I wish I remembered exactly what I did...
-Adam Batkin
I had a similar issue after a recent update. Just as a test, I created a new user (i.e. fresh home directory) and that worked fine, so I figured it might be something in my existing profile that was an issue. I cleaned up a bunch of temp and cache files that looked KDE/Plasma related and the next time I logged in, everything was fine. I wish I remembered exactly what I did...
That's not my case, I've now reinstalled the whole system from scratch and I'm still having the issue :-( same problem if I try to create a new user and login with it.
Coincidentally I did exactly the same yesterday (deploying Fedora Rawhide within Oracle's Virtualbox 5.1.14 r112924) and obtained the very same result. After installation and reboot the SDDM login screen shows up nicely, but once I log in I get the blank screen. The mouse is there, it responds to movement as expected but absolutely nothing more! Doesn't seem to be a graphical issue. Any word from the dev team would be very welcome!
Same-same me! I think for a pretty long time now KDE on Rawhide hasn't been to be. : ) However, the last Everything ISO from 21th (...21.n.1) just appears worse for evenly never getting out a working install screen, and on Rawhide this is also no rare incident. My good advice is: Catch a setup ISO - try those from the past - with a working installer, install on Xfce and have it update, then from time to time attempt an upgrade to Plasma as a second desktop environment. Once upon a time it may run! Meantime, you have a good modern desktop with Xfce. My one has excellently operated all my required software - and that's a lot - for pretty a two months now and outlived all updates!
Keep patient, and be the Ancients with ye and all of us, Gary
On 2/22/17 1:13 PM, P Breviglieri wrote:
Coincidentally I did exactly the same yesterday (deploying Fedora Rawhide within Oracle's Virtualbox 5.1.14 r112924) and obtained the very same result. After installation and reboot the SDDM login screen shows up nicely, but once I log in I get the blank screen. The mouse is there, it responds to movement as expected but absolutely nothing more! Doesn't seem to be a graphical issue. Any word from the dev team would be very welcome! _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
Mattia Verga wrote:
I had a virtual machine in Virtualbox with Fedora Rawhide on it.
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I don't think it's a Virtualbox graphic problem
Is this reproducible outside of VirtualBox (bare metal or even KVM/qemu)?
Not sure we have anyone in kde-sig that uses VB and could/would be able to debug this otherwise.
-- Rex
Yes. I deployed rawhide yesterday on a Lenovo Z580 (bare metal, single distro, from scratch) and the same behavior was observed. Nightly: Fedora-Rawhide-20170220.n.2 (x86_64, Everything boot).
P Breviglieri wrote:
Yes. I deployed rawhide yesterday on a Lenovo Z580 (bare metal, single distro, from scratch) and the same behavior was observed. Nightly: Fedora-Rawhide-20170220.n.2 (x86_64, Everything boot).
Second thing to check, do you have plasma-workspace-5.8.6-2 or newer?
There was a potential plasmashell crashfix included.
-- Rex
I've just upgraded plasma-workspace (and all its dependencies) from 5.8.6-1 to 5.8.6-2 and that fixed the issue.
Thanks Mattia
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