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eddyw

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Registered: 2014-01-08

Posts: 11

[SOLVED] After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen (ksplash)

Hello everyone,

After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen; then, after a few seconds, it 'sometimes' shows a black screen and cursor but anything else works.
First, I thought that config files (~/.kde4) might be corrupted or something like that, so I made a backup and deleted that folder (~/.kde4). I tried to login again but without success.
I also tried disabling "compositing" (in ~/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc) and cleaning cache (then, running kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental).

Well, I have tried all possible solutions posted here (old topics) with no luck:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168520&p=1
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1314391

I'm out of ideas, I even removed all kde and reinstalled it. (I made a full install this time.)

If it helps, I'm running..: Nvidia Drivers (15 minutes ago I updated them), OS: x86_64.
PD: I just tried to run "plasma-desktop" inside an Openbox Session and it works

Last edited by eddyw (2014-04-17 01:37:55)

ninjatrappeur

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Registered: 2014-04-16

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen (ksplash)

Same problem here…

[edit] I'm also running nvidia drivers.

Last edited by ninjatrappeur (2014-04-16 12:09:55)

Thalskarth

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Registered: 2008-12-02

Posts: 37

Re: [SOLVED] After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen (ksplash)

Also same problem.

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eddyw

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Registered: 2014-01-08

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen (ksplash)

I found that "startkde" stops when It runs "start_kdeinit_wrapper" (line 323). I thought that if "kdeinit4" performs the same action as "start_kdeinit_wrapper", it will 'work' if I replace that line..
(/usr/bin/startkde [line 323])

LD_BIND_NOW=true /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup

to:

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit4 +kcminit_startup

I'm not so sure if this is a viable solution but it works. Maybe it's magic, who knows.

peacey

Member

Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] After Upgrade, kde gets stuck on splash screen (ksplash)

I found that "startkde" stops when It runs "start_kdeinit_wrapper" (line 323). I thought that if "kdeinit4" performs the same action as "start_kdeinit_wrapper", it will 'work' if I replace that line..
(/usr/bin/startkde [line 323])

LD_BIND_NOW=true /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup

to:

LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit4 +kcminit_startup

I'm not so sure if this is a viable solution but it works. Maybe it's magic, who knows.

It is magic! Thank you very much. I have been struggling with this solution on a fresh install of KDE. This is a great hack until the issue gets fixed.