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mzneverdies

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 147

[SOLVED] Could not start ksmserver [KF5]

Hi
Plasmashell is refusing to start. I get a black screen with the following error:

Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.

Screenshot:

It was working fine yesterday. I got the error afer pacman -Syu updated the following packages:

[2014-12-12 15:54] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2014-12-12 15:54] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -S --noconfirm -uu'
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded frameworkintegration (5.5.0-1 -> 5.5.0-2)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded python2 (2.7.8-2 -> 2.7.9-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-base (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-xmlpatterns (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-declarative (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-graphicaleffects (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] installed geoclue (0.12.99-2)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-location (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-multimedia (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-quickcontrols (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-script (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-sensors (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-svg (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] installed qt5-webchannel (5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-webkit (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-translations (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-tools (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] upgraded qt5-x11extras (5.3.2-2 -> 5.4.0-1)
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --noconfirm -Rs'
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2014-12-12 15:55] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2014-12-12 15:58] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman --color auto -Sy'
[2014-12-12 15:58] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists

The log shows my last update. Note that I had an uptime of about 3 o 4days, so it might have broke on some previous update.

Last edited by mzneverdies (2014-12-12 15:38:54)

mzneverdies

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Registered: 2012-02-04

Posts: 147

Re: [SOLVED] Could not start ksmserver [KF5]

Nevermind, just after finishing the post, I run pacman -Syu again, and kdelibs4support got updated, problem solved.