Re: [gentoo-user] KDE5: no desktop

[Daniel Frey]

On 01/07/2017 07:03 AM, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first
> machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving
> blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it
> was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as
> something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and
> a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver
> are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the install.
> Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar,
> etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no
> avail.
>
>
>
> I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. You
> can see the post with the sddm log here:
> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast
> intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround
> is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit rough
> around the edges.
>
>

What's the profile set to? `eselect profile list`?

If it's incorrect it is very possible something may not be installed
correctly.

I also remember when searching for upgrade info a long time ago that
missing fonts can cause kde to not start with a black screen.

Dan