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keineeile

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Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 44

[SOLVED, in a way] Plasma freezes right after/during start-up

Hi guys,

I have a problem with KF5 and SDDM (though I'm sticking to KDE for now):

I think it was 2 days ago, I updated KDE on my laptop to 15.04 (plasma is at 5.2.2) as well as SDDM. At the next reboot, SDDM didn't show up for starters (haven't attempted to solve that one yet). I switched to a different vt, stopped SDDM, rebooted, and then attempted to start KDE with startx (I put the line "exec startkde" into .xinitrc). This does indeed load the plasma desktop, however, right after it finished loading (sometimes it already happens right before the 'load' screen fades out), it freezes and doesn't react to any keyboard/mouse input anymore. Also nothing on the screen (like clock, etc.) gets updated. However, it's not completely dead, because it still reacts to an external monitor being plugged in/out (it resizes the screen, but doesn't update anything displayed leading to a lot of artefacts).

This happens everytime I attempt to start it. I can use startx to start e19 without any troubles (that's where I am right now). I can't see anything wrong in any of the logs, it appears simply to be stuck somewhere waiting for something. I'd appreciate any help in figuring out what's going on!

Thanks!

keineeile

$ uname -a
Linux keineeile 3.19.3-3-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 8 14:10:00 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Last edited by keineeile (2015-04-27 02:33:58)

keineeile

Member

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED, in a way] Plasma freezes right after/during start-up

Well, it's working for me again, though I still don't know what was/is wrong:

I noticed that both KF5 and SDDM were working just fine when I created a new user. I guess there were probably some old config files or something lying around causing issues. With a clean user account everything works as expected.