On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 06:57:16PM +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Sunday 08 January 2017, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > Try to login as a new user (or move your home directory out of the > > way). If it works start selectively deleting dot files/directories > > from your home directory. Start with .cache, .kde4 and everything that > > starts with a k in .config and .local and go from there. I had the > > exact same problem when I upgraded one of my laptops and that's how I > > fixed it. Also delete anything in /var/cache and any files belonging > > to your uses in /tmp and /run. > > > > You can also try switching to a VT and kill plasmashell and if it > > doesn't restart automatically start it with the DISPLAY environment > > variable properly set. > > > > Also look at the system logs, .xsession-errors, xorg logs, etc for > > clues. You can also run kdebugdialog5 from another DE to enable a lot > > of kde debug output to the system logs. > > > > I said above that I created a new user and got exactly same problem, so that > pretty much excludes old files as a possibility.
A short while ago Plasma (5.8.5) started crashing right after login on my PC. I have no idea why, even a clean user didn’t help. But I could still run KDE normally when running startx from the TTY. But then other stuff didn’t work, such as mounting media as a user. Eventually I tried a different login manager (sddm instead of lightdm) and it worked again. Too bad – I don’t really like sddm because it is not keyboard friendly (well, lightdm is not that much better either, I truely miss kdm). In the end, I still started with a fresh user config, because I used the opportunity to clean away old KDE 4 stuff. And since this cost me two days’ spare time already, I can’t be bothered with it anymore. :/ -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me with any social network. It’s a pity that at the end of the money there’s so much month left.
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