Bug 356844

Summary: Plasma 5 Wayland session doesn't start
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Mike Lothian <mike>
Component: wayland-genericAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.5.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Wayland Error File

Description Mike Lothian 2015-12-17 17:14:31 UTC 
Black screen cursor renders and the top left glows if I push into it

I'm attaching the wayland log

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Mike Lothian 2015-12-17 17:15:14 UTC 
Created attachment 96147 [details]
Wayland Error File

I'm not sure what else you need from me
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2015-12-17 17:26:11 UTC 
It looks like Xwayland doesn't work. It reports lots of errors and we have messages about "Did the X11 server die?" and the failure to start the launcher also looks very suspicious.
Comment 3 Mike Lothian 2015-12-17 17:40:49 UTC 
I can get weston-1.9 working ok, I'm not sure how I can investigate this issue, which logs should I be looking at for clues? Can I try and start kwin manually? Is there anything I need to set up?
Comment 4 Martin Flöser 2015-12-18 07:18:41 UTC 
weston unlike kwin doesn't require Xwayland. If you start weston with xwayland support, Xwayland is only started on first X application.

And yes, you can try running kwin manually. Either nested in an X session or from a tty:
kwin_wayland --xwayland "application-to-start --args"