[arch-general] Blue/Black Screen of Death with Plasma5

[Marshall Neill]

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:
>
> 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
>