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On Wednesday, 4 August 2021 21:24:31 BST antlists wrote: |
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> On 21/06/2021 16:17, Michael wrote: |
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> > Have you tried using a Display Manager? Some of my systems won't work |
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> > with |
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> > Wayland, but I haven't spent time to find out why all I get with them is a |
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> > black screen. |
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> I've had that on a couple of occasions, now, and I just thought I'd post |
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> this in case anybody else hits it and wants to find the solution. |
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> The first half of the fix is to ssh into the machine from somewhere else |
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> (or if you're lucky and <ctrl>-<alt>-Fn is working, switch to a |
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> different tty) and kill kwin or whatever. Basically kill whatever it |
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> takes to get back to a tty. (This assumes you're not running a |
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> greeter/graphical login.) |
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> Then you should see a bunch of error messages etc. I'm not aware of any |
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> way to get them logged, which would make life easier. |
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> And they should tell you what's wrong, like in my case two different |
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> problems on two different occasions - once I was missing the compositor, |
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> once my video drivers weren't loaded. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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I've noticed login out of Wayland ends up with a number of KDE apps crashing, |
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rather than exiting gracefully. I think kwin is one of them, as well as |
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KDEPIM related apps, perhaps others too. |
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Wayland is much more stable today than a year ago, but I think as far as |
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Plasma is concerned it's not yet ready for production time. |
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