[arch-general] Blue/Black Screen of Death with Plasma5
Hi folks-
The backstory: I bought a new el-cheapo multi-function printer-scanner today and as a consequence installed sane, xsane, and kdegraphics-ksaneplugin. I did all that while logged into my usual window manager, dwm. All was fine.
Then I wanted to try the kde plugin, so logged into kde desktop and was presented with what appeared to be the blue screen of death (sometimes black). Plasma seems to start fine, i.e., splash screen goes through its usual motions, then the blue/black screen appears when the desktop usually does.
However, not was all as it seemed. The entire kde suite works, i.e., mouse and keyboard, and most, but not all, applications (although to access them I need to alt-F2 and run them manually.) The only thing that does not seem to work is the desktop itself.
I cannot say the packages I installed today are the cause - it could be any update within the last two weeks; as noted, I rarely log into the kde desktop.
My uname -a is:
Linux arch 4.2.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 3 18:52:50 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My desktop is: plasma-desktop-5.4.2-1
As you can imagine, there are no shortage of google results regarding the blue/black screen. However, there was nothing current enough or otherwise useful. [1][2][3]
Here's what I've tried so far, in no particular order:
1. removed kdegraphics-ksaneplugin; 2. re-installed plasma-desktop; 3. downgraded kactivities-frameworks; 4. removed ~/.kde and /tmp/kde-dutch.
Logs don't show anything of importance (as I would expect, as Xorg starts and runs properly.) Top shows kwrapper5, dbus, polkit, kdeinit5, klauncher, kded5, kactivitymanager, etc., all running.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated; If further information is needed, please let me know.
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143124 [2] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=118151 [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193286
Since I do not run the KDE desktop the only suggestion, fwiw, is, do you have a KDE Session startup, like Xfce has a session startup? Perhaps there is something of note in there, if one exists.
Regards, Marshall Neill
On 10/18/2015 06:15 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
Hi folks-
The backstory: I bought a new el-cheapo multi-function printer-scanner today and as a consequence installed sane, xsane, and kdegraphics-ksaneplugin. I did all that while logged into my usual window manager, dwm. All was fine.
Then I wanted to try the kde plugin, so logged into kde desktop and was presented with what appeared to be the blue screen of death (sometimes black). Plasma seems to start fine, i.e., splash screen goes through its usual motions, then the blue/black screen appears when the desktop usually does.
However, not was all as it seemed. The entire kde suite works, i.e., mouse and keyboard, and most, but not all, applications (although to access them I need to alt-F2 and run them manually.) The only thing that does not seem to work is the desktop itself.
I cannot say the packages I installed today are the cause - it could be any update within the last two weeks; as noted, I rarely log into the kde desktop.
My uname -a is:
Linux arch 4.2.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 3 18:52:50 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux
My desktop is: plasma-desktop-5.4.2-1
As you can imagine, there are no shortage of google results regarding the blue/black screen. However, there was nothing current enough or otherwise useful. [1][2][3]
Here's what I've tried so far, in no particular order:
- removed kdegraphics-ksaneplugin;
- re-installed plasma-desktop;
- downgraded kactivities-frameworks;
- removed ~/.kde and /tmp/kde-dutch.
Logs don't show anything of importance (as I would expect, as Xorg starts and runs properly.) Top shows kwrapper5, dbus, polkit, kdeinit5, klauncher, kded5, kactivitymanager, etc., all running.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated; If further information is needed, please let me know.
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=143124 [2] https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=118151 [3] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193286
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham stoa@gmx.us wrote:
The backstory: I bought a new el-cheapo multi-function printer-scanner today and as a consequence installed sane, xsane, and kdegraphics-ksaneplugin. I did all that while logged into my usual window manager, dwm. All was fine.
Then I wanted to try the kde plugin, so logged into kde desktop and was presented with what appeared to be the blue screen of death (sometimes black). Plasma seems to start fine, i.e., splash screen goes through its usual motions, then the blue/black screen appears when the desktop usually does.
Can you kill plasmashell and start it again from the terminal, and provide output?
i.e from krunner (alt+f2) open konsole, killall plasmashell && plasmashell
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:25:45 +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote:
Can you kill plasmashell and start it again from the terminal, and provide output?
i.e from krunner (alt+f2) open konsole, killall plasmashell && plasmashell
Taking a look at ~/.xsession-errors might be useful either.
Regards, Ralf
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:25:45AM +0530, Bhushan Shah wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham stoa@gmx.us wrote:
The backstory: I bought a new el-cheapo multi-function printer-scanner today and as a consequence installed sane, xsane, and kdegraphics-ksaneplugin. I did all that while logged into my usual window manager, dwm. All was fine.
Then I wanted to try the kde plugin, so logged into kde desktop and was presented with what appeared to be the blue screen of death (sometimes black). Plasma seems to start fine, i.e., splash screen goes through its usual motions, then the blue/black screen appears when the desktop usually does.
Can you kill plasmashell and start it again from the terminal, and provide output?
i.e from krunner (alt+f2) open konsole, killall plasmashell && plasmashell
-- Bhushan Shah
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Thanks, everybody. Since everyone's questions, and the answers, all are related, I'll respond to Marshall, Bhushan, and Ralf all in this response:
I've killed and restarted plasmashell and here is the output:
~ $ killall plasmashell && plasmashell kscreen: launcherDataAvailable: "org.kde.KScreen.Backend.XRandR" kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability last screen is < 0 so putting containment on screen 0 kscreen: Launcher finished with exit code 1 , status 0 kscreen: Service for requested backend already running Plasma Shell startup completed kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" )
I don't normally have an .xsession-errors file, but I created one and here is the output from starting a session:
X.Org X Server 1.17.2 Release Date: 2015-06-16 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 4.0.4-2-ARCH x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux arch 4.2.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 3 18:52:50 CEST 2015 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=f72c94ff-cf1f-42dd-9d10-ab716a64b067 rw Build Date: 17 July 2015 05:38:19PM
Current version of pixman: 0.32.8 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: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Oct 19 08:37:59 2015 (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" Loading stage "initial" 1187 startkde: Starting up... Service started, version: 6.2.0 kscreen: launcherDataAvailable: "org.kde.KScreen.Backend.XRandR" Service started, version: 6.2.0 kscreen: Launcher finished with exit code 1 , status 0 kscreen: Service for requested backend already running kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability unversioned plugin detected, may result in instability last screen is < 0 so putting containment on screen 0 Plasma Shell startup completed kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 587 , Name: "DVI-I-2" ) ( "DVI-I-2" ) I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/dutch/.qalculate/eurofxref-daily.xml" I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/dutch/.qalculate/eurofxref-daily.xml"
The only recent plugin installed was the aforementioned kdegraphics-ksaneplugin; after removing that plugin, the output to .xsession-errors is the same.
Any thoughts?
participants (4)
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Bhushan Shah
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Dutch Ingraham
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Marshall Neill
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Ralf Mardorf