On 01/07/2017 07:03 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > I finally grasped the nettle and did the Plasma 5 upgrade. The first > machine went OK eventually (apart from the week spent resolving > blockers), so I thought the second would be much smoother. And so it > was, until I logged on. I got the splash screen, a bouncing ball as > something started and then a black screen relieved only by a cursor and > a couple of apps in the autostart list. kwin-x11, plasmashell, ksmserver > are all running, it seems like something got omitted in the install. > Does anyone know which binary starts the window manager and taskbar, > etc? I did the usual things like create a new user, rename .kde4, to no > avail. > > > > I have already posted on the Gentoo forums but didn't get much help. You > can see the post with the sddm log here: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1057060.html. Hopefully the vast > intellects of the Gentoo list will have an idea! My current workaround > is to install lxqt as the desktop; it works pretty well, if a bit rough > around the edges. > >
What's the profile set to? `eselect profile list`? If it's incorrect it is very possible something may not be installed correctly. I also remember when searching for upgrade info a long time ago that missing fonts can cause kde to not start with a black screen. Dan
