On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 10:42:07PM -0400, Michael Shell wrote: I've changed the subject, this is re *my* last build of plasma (on 7.9-rc1, on an i7 haswell) and I no-longer recall the details of why I gave up there - but I suspect it appeared to hang at the splash screen. > > This thread: > > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=91932 > > mentions how to disable compositing within kde to see if that affects the > problem. > > > Cheers, > > Mike Shell
Mike, you continue to impress me with your ability to find useful links from the past! Because this build was on 7.9-rc1 (glibc vulnerabilities, if I remember correctly) it was only retained in case I had a reason to go back to it. It's an i7 haswell, so it ought to be powerful enough, but all I remember is that plasma seemed to not start. I can see that I had moved ~/.kde to a new name, and the replacement .kde was missing most of the files. The system is set to start in runlevel 5, with sddm. So, I logged in to icewm, reinstated ~/.kde and edited it to not enable compositing. From icewm-session, konqueror was its usual self, with a mostly blue first screen. From there, I logged out and retried plasma - after a number of seconds I thought it had died while starting up (a background, with a progress bar). I went to a tty, logged in as root, checked the sddm log (seemed ok), went back to tty7 and noticed that the runner had started (top of the screen). I tried to type in 'konqueror' there - my typing didn't seem to show, but after I had typed konqueror I got a menu of options, and when I clicked on the konqueror option I got konqueror - but with a mostly white window. Logged out, logged back in to icewm and made notes, then logged out and retried plasma. After 35 seconds it *did* start with a menu along the bottom, and from there I managed to run konqueror (again, with a mostly white initial window). And I also ran urxvt from there, which is where I am now - an old system, two urxvt terms, and using ssh to connect to my server. So, once again, a BIG Thank You to Mike. This -rc1 build is now old and my normal stuff such as firefox is antique, but I've managed to start plasma. I guess that when we get to 7.10 I'll give it another try. But kde is the last thing I build, after icewm and xfce, so I guess it will be a long time until I get to plasma. Cheers! ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
