On 2023.05.19 18:05, Jack wrote:
(Although I admit I'm beginning to wonder about myself.)
I've done a number of upgrades recently, and when I rebooted into
kernel 6.3.3 yesterday, the boot seemed to go fine, but when I
started kde-plasma, things did not go well. I could vaguely see the
"outlines" of the desktop, but there was no recognizable wallpaper or
any text. The background was a solid light blue. I could see some
which or light gray boxes where there should be windows. If I move
the mouse (no visible cursor) to the top of the screen, something
that might be the panel shows up - but solid white. I see a tall
striped window that is probably gkrellm. Sometimes, I can right click
on the desktop and guess where the "logout" button is on the window
that pops up, but sometimes I need to kill things from a different
console.
With no noticeable change in behavior, I've rebooted into the two
previous kernels (6.3.0 and 6.2.11) and rolled back plasma from
~5.27.5 to 5.27.4. I've reinstalled xorg-server 21.1.8, and all of
its xf86-input and -video drivers. I get the same behavior with an
empty ~/.config or as a new test user. This is an amd64 system
mostly stable, with select testing apps. kde-apps are 22.12.3. I'm
about to try rolling back kde-frameworks from ~5.106.0 to 5.104.0 and
mesa from ~23.1.0 to 23.0.3-r1. I haven't seen anything I recognize
as a problem in the X log, dmesg, or /var/log/messages.
I realize I'm not provide anything solid to go on. I do figure it's
something in my configuration or I would have found other reports.
I'm mainly hoping someone can suggest what else I can try or where to
look for hints, as I'm about out of ideas, beyond tracing back
through all recent upgrades.
Jack
(I figure there's a maybe 25% chance I'll discover the problem as
soon as I embarrass myself by posting this.)
Pretty much as I figured - downgrading mesa from 23.1.0 to 23.0.3-r1
has plasma working just fine. I'll test again with 23.1.0 and file a
bug if the problem is repeatable.
