On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:38:55AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >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. > > I am going to start X today. I'll try kf5 and plasma next, but there are a > lot of prerequisites. The problem I had earlier with plasma was that it did > not find the appropriate javascript modules. Hence the code on the plasma > page: > > cd $KF5_PREFIX/share/plasma/plasmoids > > for j in $(find -name \*.js); do > as_root ln -sfv ../code/$(basename $j) $(dirname $j)/../ui/ > done > > -- Bruce > Ah, I suspect I missed that (but my plasma build was working on my A10 a few months ago). Will have to remember to check that part later - at the moment I've just restarted chapter 5, my logging changes last week (because of grep) gave me some issues in /tools.
For this build I'll again do my normal desktop, plus gnome (except cheese and its deps). Hope to start a kde4 build on the other box in a day or two. Thanks. 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
