On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:54:45AM +0000, akhiezer wrote: > > Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:04:04 +0000 > > From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > > Subject: [blfs-support] black screen with plasma5 on intel > > > > My new build machine is an intel haswell. On the abortive 7.9-rc1 > > system (abortive because of the glibc issue) I have ended up by > > installing kf5 and plasma, along with sddmR,. to check that upgrading > > wayland to 1.10 seems ok. But when I rebooted to graphical mode, > > both icewm and xfce worked fine, but the 'slider' on the 'colourful' > > plasma start screen never got beyond about 25% and then I got a > > black screen with a mouse pointer. > > > . > . > > > > A further suggestion was to give it 5 minutes, in case it eventually > > started to work : for the moment I am not willing to wait that long. > > > > Once I've had some sleep, I'm intending to build 7.9-rc2 from this > > system so I'll probably use icewm and get on with that - unless > > anybody has any likely fixes ? > . > . > > > > > - not even let it run for the duration of you being away doing sleep, > or even a shorter-duration other task ? The results may at least help > narrow-down what's what. > I don't like to leave it burning power unnecessarily for hours.
Gave it a try now - The splash screen fades to blak after about 35 seconds, then about 5 minutes from logging in I get a message starting "The screen locker is broken and unlocking is not possible anymore." and telling me to login on a VT and use 'loginctl unlock-sessions' before switching back to the running session. I do not, of course, have loginctl. The full message can be seen at https://github.com/KDE/kscreenlocker/blob/master/abstractlocker.cpp it comes from the kde screenlocker daemon, apparently triggered by m_greeterFailure. So the greeter failed - I think I had already guessed that. No idea where to look, I'll put this aside. ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
