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

[Bhushan Shah]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Dutch Ingraham <stoa at 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

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