On 07/02/18 10:57 AM, Dave Close wrote:
I have two systems that were recently upgraded from Fedora 26 to 27
using DNF system-upgrade. Both were successfully running a KDE desktop
for several generations previously, including on F26. In both cases,
after the upgrade, starting KDE showed the splash screen and then
a blank screen with only a pointer cursor. The keyboard and mouse
worked but the screen remained blank. Both systems are set to start
in systemd's multi-user mode; KDE is started with the startx command.
One of the systems is a 32-bit laptop with little local content. I
chose to simply do a fresh install on this one to get it working
quickly. Fedora doesn't offer an installation image for 32-bit F27
so I installed F25 and then did successive upgrades to F26 and then
F27. KDE worked in both F25 and F26 but had the same problem once
I got to F27. I did it again and stopped at F26 to have a working
system.
The other system is a modern 64-bit desktop with 8GB RAM. This one
still has the problem. I'd like to find the cause and a solution
before I make the effort to revert to F26 because this one has
a huge amount of local content which I would have to backup and
restore. (I do backups but more for recovery of individual files;
a general recovery could have other problems.)
Note that Gnome works on this machine (but I hate Gnome).
The logs haven't given me any clue as to the cause of the
problem. I have now run "startx &>logfile" hoping that might tell
me something. After the blank screen appeared, I killed xinit and
Xorg from a different console. The logfile is included below in the
hope it might spark some insight from the group.
xauth: file /home/dave/.serverauth.1517 does not exist
X.Org X Server 1.19.6
Release Date: 2017-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: 4.14.11-300.fc27.x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux dc7800.compata.com 4.14.16-300.fc27.x86_64 #1
SMP Wed Jan 31 19:24:27 UTC 2018 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.14.16-300.fc27.x86_64
root=/dev/mapper/fedora_dc7800-root ro rd.lvm.lv=fedora_dc7800/root
rd.lvm.lv=fedora_dc7800/swap vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 biosdevname=0
net.ifnames=0 selinux=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Build Date: 10 January 2018 11:00:12PM
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.19.6-2.fc27
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/dave/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 6
21:11:34 2018
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
startkde: Starting up...
dbus-update-activation-environment: warning: error sending to systemd:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.freedesktop.systemd1
exited with status 1
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/akregator.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/blogilo.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/disable_kmix.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_akregator.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_global.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_global_toolbar.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_kate.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/importwizard.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/kaddressbook.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kalarm.upd'
for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/katomic-levelset.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/kcalcrc.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kget.upd'
for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/kgthemeprovider-migration.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/kleopatra.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file
'/usr/share/kconf_update/klickety.upd' for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kmail.upd'
for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kmail2.upd'
for new updates
2018-02-06T21:12:01
