Arch Linux KDE 4.11.2-1: Black screen with mouse cursor
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Hello there,
I think this issue might have been posted before. KDM loads up perfectly fine and I can log in. After the KDE splash screen disappears, I have a black wallpaper/desktop with a mouse cursor that I can move around and I can use the right click menu, so that means I can access xterm. There is also a New Activity text on my desktop. I have just installed KDE as a new installation, not an upgrade. Thanks! Ethan |
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Sounds funny. Maybe you don't have installed it completely?
* Try moving ~/.kde4 away and retry. * Look in ~/.xsession-errors for any messages which seem relevant. Greetings, Sven
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Are there any other activities available when you right-click on the desktop and select "Activities..."? If yes, try to switch to one of them. Or create a new one there from one of the templates. Otherwise you could also configure it yourself. I would start with adding a panel (also in the desktop's right click menu). |
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Hello there,
Even after all the fixes you suggested, there is stil a black screen. The ~/.xsession-errors can be found here: http://bpaste.net/show/145309/ Activities does not show anything. In the xsession errors file it says something about mysqld, and about some kde daemon that can't start up among many others. When I turned on the computer I just right clicked to go to the Run Command and ran xterm. Then I wgetpasted the xsession-errors file. Thanks for your help! Ethan |
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"KCrash: Application 'plasma-desktop' crashing..." the log says, that's quite probably the reason for the problems I guess.
Is dbus running? I know that in the past you had to enable it by hand on arch, however I guess nowadays systemd enforces it's active...
I'm working on the KDevelop IDE.
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Hello there,
Yeah, dbus is running. I checked it by running "sudo systemctl" and finding dbus.service. I found it and it says that it is "loaded active running". So that probably means that it is working. Any ideas? Ethan |
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This sound similar to your problem, maybe you could try to change the default fonts in System Settings? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 2#p1124292
It would be helpful if you could post a screenshot as well. It sounds like Plasma Desktop is actually running, otherwise you shouldn't be able get a menu when right-clicking on the desktop.
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Hello there,
I tried changing the default fonts and it does not work. The screenshot can be found here: http://imgur.com/r8UJeD5 Thanks, Ethan |
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Seems like you're missing all icons as well. Which KDE packages do you have installed, and how did you install them?
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That is severely broken. Please make sure the appropriate oxygen-icons packages are installed.
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Hello there,
1st thing to get out of the way: I installed KDE using pacman -S kde. 2nd: Even after reinstalling oxygen-icons, it still doesn't work. 3rd: After running the pacman -Syu kde-meta-kdebase (or something like that) it doesn't work. Thanks for your continued help! Ethan |
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Can you please try to reinstall the KDE packages with
and post the output here? (You may want to do a pacman -Syu first.)
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Hello,
The output of pacman -S kde can be found here: http://bpaste.net/show/146024/ I just did pacman -S kde --noconfirm > output and wgetpasted the output file. You won't see any progress bars or anything like that. Thanks! Ethan |
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See here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=85480 |
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