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Lenry

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From: Szeged, Hungary

Registered: 2010-03-27

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KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

I recently installed Arch on a computer (it had Fedora on it before).

I migrated /home to the new system, and it works with my user, but not with the others.
When I try to login with a user, only a black screen appears and a mouse cursor, which can be moved but nothing else. I tried to delete the user and it's home directory as well, and recreate it, but the results were the same.

With my user, everything works perfectly, and I can login to the tty with the problematic users too, just not to the graphical interface.

I can't find any relevant error messages anywhere, but I'll provide any logfile needed.

Thanks

lesto

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Registered: 2010-07-13

Posts: 115

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

remove ~/,X-error (or similar name), that somethimes prevented in the past (for me multiple times) kde from boot up. If that fail, delete plasma cache and if again fail reset all plasma conf. see https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 37597.html

KF5/Plasma 5 settings are stored in to XDG_CONFIG_HOME. so if this
variable is not set you can clear ~/.config and ~/.cache.. If you just
want to reset just plasma 5 settings delete
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and
~/.config/plasmarc files

Soyel

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Registered: 2015-12-19

Posts: 2

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

I have the exact same issue and I can reproduce it by changing the desktop layout to "Desktop" instead of the default "Folder View". I can edit the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and logout to fix it. Could it be a faulty update or package?

dsreyes1014

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Registered: 2014-06-28

Posts: 56

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

I'm having the same issue with an old intel PC and it's still not working.

dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 126

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

remove ~/,X-error (or similar name), that somethimes prevented in the past (for me multiple times) kde from boot up. If that fail, delete plasma cache and if again fail reset all plasma conf. see https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 37597.html

KF5/Plasma 5 settings are stored in to XDG_CONFIG_HOME. so if this
variable is not set you can clear ~/.config and ~/.cache.. If you just
want to reset just plasma 5 settings delete
~/.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and
~/.config/plasmarc files

Having the same issue since I updated the system and rebooted it. Tried your suggestions, but it didn't work. Any other ideas?
Thanks.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,627

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

Less "me too"s, more relevant information is necessary for anyone to be able to help any one of you.

What is common in your environments, do you get errors in your xorg.log/journal ? Have you tried soyel's suggestion, what are the contents of your plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc and plasmarc files?

I don't have any issues on neither my intel nor nvidia gpu systems.

dsreyes1014

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Registered: 2014-06-28

Posts: 56

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

Here's a log using startx to startup plasma:

xauth:  file /home/$USER/.serverauth.2258 does not exist
 
 
X.Org X Server 1.19.6
Release Date: 2017-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 4.14.12-1-ARCH x86_64
Current Operating System: Linux loha_dell_inspiron 4.14.26-1-lts #1 SMP Sun Mar 11 20:09:36 CET 2018 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts root=UUID=94b0e75c-e1e2-4257-96dd-33a545e08d9a rw quiet splash loglevel=3 rd.systemd.show_status=false rd.udev.log-priority=3
Build Date: 26 January 2018  10:25:18AM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
    to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
    (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/home/$USER/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.3.log", Time: Thu Mar 15 13:55:26 2018
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not permitted)
Using Wayland-EGL
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
failed to initialize EGL display
kcm_input: Using X11 backend
Using Wayland-EGL
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
failed to initialize EGL display
Cannot find EGLConfig, returning null config
Using the 'xdg-shell-v6' shell integration
The Wayland connection experienced a fatal error (Protocol error)
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 2313, result = 0
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
kdeinit5: opened connection to :3
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_kded5'
kdeinit5: Launched KDED, pid = 2317 result = 0
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_kcminit_startup'
kdeinit5: Launched 'kcminit_startup', pid = 2318 result = 0
kdeinit5: PID 2313 terminated.
kdeinit5: KLauncher died unexpectedly.
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
kdeinit5: Shutting down running client.
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 2343, result = 0
kdeinit5: Got termination request (PID 2312).
Cannot find 'org.kde.KSplash.setStage' in object /KSplash at org.kde.KSplash
kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__3) failed: : No such file or directory
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 2347, result = 0
wl_drm@13: error 0: authenicate failed
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
kdeinit5: opened connection to :3
Configuring Lock Action
ksmserver: "/run/user/1000/KSMserver"
ksmserver: KSMServer: SetAProc_loc: conn  0 , prot= local , file= @/tmp/.ICE-unix/2345
ksmserver: KSMServer: SetAProc_loc: conn  1 , prot= unix , file= /tmp/.ICE-unix/2345
ksmserver: KSMServer::restoreSession  "saved at previous logout"
kdeinit5: PID 2347 terminated.
kdeinit5: KLauncher died unexpectedly.
kdeinit5: Shutting down running client.
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 2358, result = 0
kdeinit5: Got termination request (PID 2323).
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 2364, result = 0
kdeinit5: opened connection to :3
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib/kf5/kconf_update' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib/kf5/kconf_update'
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/disable_kmix.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_akregator.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_global.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_global_toolbar.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/fonts_kate.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/gtkbreeze5.5.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kde4breeze.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/krdb_libpathwipe.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/krunnerplugins.upd' for new updates
2018-03-15T13:55:32 Checking update-file '/usr/share/kconf_update/kscreenlocker.upd' for new updates
kdeinit5: PID 2366 terminated.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/$USER/.gtkrc:/home/$USER/.config/gtkrc' from launcher.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/home/$USER/.gtkrc-2.0:/home/$USER/.config/gtkrc-2.0' from launcher.

Last edited by dsreyes1014 (2018-03-16 13:43:52)

dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 126

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

I have the exact same issue and I can reproduce it by changing the desktop layout to "Desktop" instead of the default "Folder View". I can edit the plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc file and logout to fix it. Could it be a faulty update or package?

How exactly do you make this change? I tried to find information on how to do it, but was unlucky.
Thanks.

Last edited by dicaiopolis (2018-03-17 02:33:36)

dicaiopolis

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Registered: 2010-07-21

Posts: 126

Re: KDE - Only the mouse cursor appears after login

Hi,
In my case, journalctl showed some problem related to kactivitymanagerd. So I just renamed .local/share/kactivitymanagerd/ logged out and in and it worked. Hope this helps.