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14.04.2016 00:49, Dale wrote: |
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> Yuri K. Shatroff wrote: |
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>> Hi guys, |
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>> 12.04.2016 08:38, Dale wrote: |
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>>> Howdy, |
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>>> Well, I went and did it. |
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>> So I went and did it, too. |
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>> Thank gods I made a backup. After emerging plasma-meta which wasn't |
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>> too easy because of dependency hell with eg networkmanager (Use-flag |
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>> on plasma-meta was off but it turned out that another dependency |
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>> (`plasma-workspace`) has a quite irrelevant use-flag (`geolocation`) |
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>> which pulls in networkmanager) and ruby and all, I just got a black |
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>> screen with a sole mouse pointer. When I click mouse buttons, it |
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>> flickers and shows a glimpse of what the desktop should be, but then |
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>> again switches to black screen. I tried to remove ~/.kde4 but nothing |
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>> effectively changed. |
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>> Thanks but No thanks, I prefer to restore my backup. Not gonna repeat |
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>> this at home. |
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Hi Dale, |
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> I'm not sure on where you got the black screen. If it is when X |
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> started, did you switch to sddm or some other compatible display |
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> manager? The old kdm isn't supported and from what I read, doesn't |
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> work. That may explain the black screen. |
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Sddm worked as expected, not to mention its veeery slow interface (for |
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that nvidia drivers can be blamed, but whatever). The black screen |
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appeared after logging in. |
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> If it after you login, did you select the write session? At first, I |
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> wasn't sure which one to pick. There is a couple at least KDE related. |
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> I think I had one that said plasma and one that said KDE wayland. I |
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> have seen wayland talked about and tried it but I got a black screen. I |
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> had to restart xdm to reset it. Then I chose plasma from the list and |
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> it worked. So, make sure you pick the right one. |
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There were three choices for the session. By default plasma was |
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selected, this was the one that gave me the black screen. Others didn't |
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plain work (returned to sddm). |
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> I might add, I don't solely depend on KDE for my desktop. I have |
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> Fluxbox and some other one as a backup. If for some reason KDE doesn't |
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> work, I use one of the backup desktops to get help. Sometimes, it can |
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> be something simple to fix which is better than losing everything that |
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> was already done. For me, it doesn't matter what that backup is as long |
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> as my web browser and email program will run and is usable. If I have |
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> that, I can google and if needed post on this list for help. |
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Thanks for the hint, it's a good idea, I also had a couple of times when |
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a working X would be helpful but failed to start due to kde related issues. |
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As for the new plasma stuff, I have almost all possible kde packages |
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updated to 5.x (unstable), with the exception of kdm, kwin, settings and |
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several others. My emerge of plasma-meta replaced these and additionally |
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installed 78 packages, the larger half of which wasn't kde related |
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(ruby, . What could have caused a black screen, I have no slightest idea |
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and since it prevented me from work I gave it up. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Regards, |
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Yuri K. Shatroff |
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