On Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:03:53 GMT 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.
While you were sorting out the blockers, did you make USE changes? The problem may lie there somewhere. What does 'emerge -pe world' give you? Any errors? Although I'm still wrestling with KMail, I had no trouble with KDE itself. Well, apart from being unable to right-click on the desktop to change the behaviour of the mouse wheel, which infuriates me when the pointer strays outside the window I'm concentrating on. But I gave up trying to sort out the blockers you mention and built a new system; it may still be worth you considering that. -- Regards Peter
