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Attempting to login to the system from lightdm/sddm's login window, into a KDE Plasma session, blanks the screen and re-loads the login window. e: additionally, all KDE/plasma individual apps are throwing errors with their libraries.
Tried reading several things, both on the wiki and this forum, but ultimately I'm finding myself swallowing my pride.
Posting this from a spare laptop.
I can switch shells with Ctrl-Alt-F1-7.
stuff I have tried:
-logging in as new user
-switching lightdm to sddm
-startx (brings up white cmd windows)
-startplasma-wayland AND startplasma-X11 (gives me a symbol lookup error on both)
-pacman -Syu, then mkinitcpio -P, then refind-install.
-installing / updating nvidia-open.
eglinfo mentions my graphics card (but errors out on eglInitialize)
echo $DISPLAY comes up blank.
What else do you smarties need?
E: Solved, searched for corrupted packages, reinstalled those with yum.
Last edited by jonsicoli (2025-01-30 00:17:57)
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Can you give us your linux kernel along with your gpu model and the exact gpu drivers you are using? and also post an output of
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Can you give us your linux kernel along with your gpu model and the exact gpu drivers you are using? and also post an output of
pacman -Qm
kernel:
6.12.10-arch1-1
GPU model / drivers:
NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1660TI / TU116
kernel driver in use: nvidia
(is this nvidia-open?)
pacman -Qm output:
https://0x0.st/8HSd.txt
....Thought nvidia-open would be in here...?
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Is there a reason why you're using plasma wayland from the AUR and not the official package?
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Is there a reason why you're using plasma wayland from the AUR and not the official package?
I recall using pacman -S and then one of the packages on the wiki - I mainly got this distro to try to do VR stuff which IIRC needs some special version of glibc for the time being. I'm not sure that that would have anything to do with it, though...
Gonna try xfce or gnome, but I have a hunch that either my xorg is misconfigured somehow (I'm bad at remembering how to do that), my graphics card is misconfigured to not output a display...
Okay so Xfce works. What is plasma doing wrong that xfce does right?
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mackin_cheese wrote:Is there a reason why you're using plasma wayland from the AUR and not the official package?
I recall using pacman -S and then one of the packages on the wiki - I mainly got this distro to try to do VR stuff which IIRC needs some special version of glibc for the time being. I'm not sure that that would have anything to do with it, though...
Gonna try xfce or gnome, but I have a hunch that either my xorg is misconfigured somehow (I'm bad at remembering how to do that), my graphics card is misconfigured to not output a display...
Okay so Xfce works. What is plasma doing wrong that xfce does right?
That wouldn't explain why you have plasma wayland sessions from the AUR. Pacman doesn't grab from the AUR unless you're doing chaotic AUR.
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jonsicoli wrote:mackin_cheese wrote:Is there a reason why you're using plasma wayland from the AUR and not the official package?
I recall using pacman -S and then one of the packages on the wiki - I mainly got this distro to try to do VR stuff which IIRC needs some special version of glibc for the time being. I'm not sure that that would have anything to do with it, though...
Gonna try xfce or gnome, but I have a hunch that either my xorg is misconfigured somehow (I'm bad at remembering how to do that), my graphics card is misconfigured to not output a display...
Okay so Xfce works. What is plasma doing wrong that xfce does right?
That wouldn't explain why you have plasma wayland sessions from the AUR. Pacman doesn't grab from the AUR unless you're doing chaotic AUR.
Okay, so to migrate from the AUR wayland to the official one, I can't just pacman -S plasma-desktop, right? Since it's a meta package?
Also, checking archlinux.org packages and libplasma is currently 6.2.5-1, which is the one I'm currently using. If me grabbing plasma from AUR is the issue, how do I correct this?
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Update: Solved it, per https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=295773 :
seems there was an installation corruption. To reinstall the packages pertaining to KDE I ran pacman -Sc to clear cached packages. Then I:
1. Search for corrupted installations
sudo LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files'
2. Reinstall found packages
Thanks
then ran a 'yay -S' on all the 'k something something 5' packages - there was one package marked as a dependency that wasn't getting flagged, k something 5-git, that was causing a conflict. Specified the non-git package, and now I'm no longer getting issues with plasma packages throwing, say, 'libkf5sdfsdfdsfs' errors. Ran an update, ran refind-install, and I am happily arching away.
Will mark this SOLVED.
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