Bug 437129 - When I start plasma wayland session,then I just see a black screen and my mouse cursor is on the right and I can't do anything.
Summary: When I start plasma wayland session,then I just see a black screen and my mou...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: generic-crash (show other bugs)
Version: 5.21.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2021-05-15 03:33 UTC by Toadfield
Modified: 2021-06-11 21:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Version Fixed In: 5.22


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Description Toadfield 2021-05-15 03:33:22 UTC
This started some days ago.
System Info:https://i.nuuls.com/XlgmV.png
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-05-18 20:53:48 UTC
Seems like Plasma crashed on login. Can you get a backtrace of it? See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports
Comment 2 Toadfield 2021-05-20 14:18:02 UTC
Of which package should I get the backtrace,plasma-wayland?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2021-05-20 14:37:40 UTC
`plasmashell`
Comment 4 Toadfield 2021-06-02 11:59:31 UTC
I am on arch and I don't really get how I can do that.
Where can I even find the plasmashell pkgbuild?
And for debugging itself,I assume that I have to follow the "CMAKE (KDE) applications" section of that archwiki page.
In that section it says that I should change -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to Debug and -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE to RelWithDebInfo,but what even is that and how can I change it?
I assume that after that all I just have to cmake the pkgbuild,but then where is the backtrace located?
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2021-06-02 13:27:01 UTC
These are good questions for Arch people. The fact that it's so difficult for Arch users to generate proper backtraces is a frustration for me as a person who has to ask them to do it all the time, so I imagine it must be frustrating for you too.
Comment 6 Toadfield 2021-06-02 22:49:04 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> These are good questions for Arch people. The fact that it's so difficult
> for Arch users to generate proper backtraces is a frustration for me as a
> person who has to ask them to do it all the time, so I imagine it must be
> frustrating for you too.

I will ask on r/archlinux on how to do that,I will give the backtrace then
Comment 7 Toadfield 2021-06-02 23:07:26 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5)
> These are good questions for Arch people. The fact that it's so difficult
> for Arch users to generate proper backtraces is a frustration for me as a
> person who has to ask them to do it all the time, so I imagine it must be
> frustrating for you too.

Wait,where can I find the plasmashell package build?
Before I can ask for help on the archlinux subreddit,I need to know where I can find that pkgbuild.
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2021-06-02 23:13:04 UTC
I have no idea. That's a question for Arch people, not KDE people.
Comment 9 David Edmundson 2021-06-03 06:09:28 UTC
Find the package owner with pacman, then you can get it through abs.
Comment 10 Toadfield 2021-06-05 02:04:51 UTC
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #9)
> Find the package owner with pacman, then you can get it through abs.

How can I find the package owner with pacman?
And what is abs and how can I use it?
Comment 11 Toadfield 2021-06-08 07:04:00 UTC
Can you please give me a tutorial or something on how I can do that easiliy?
The archwiki page for that is too hard for me and I need wayland to work.
Comment 12 Nate Graham 2021-06-08 13:30:08 UTC
If this is too hard, it may be a sign that Arch is not the right distro for you. :)
Comment 13 Toadfield 2021-06-08 16:51:06 UTC
But every other distors repos don't have the newest packages,the arch repo and aur have so many new packages,I need to use arch cause of that.
I will do my research.
Comment 14 Nate Graham 2021-06-08 17:01:29 UTC
openSUSE Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro that ships the latest versions of everything (everything that's packaged, at least) and includes debug symbols.

Or you can just learn how to rebuild packages in Arch. :)
Comment 15 Toadfield 2021-06-11 18:26:32 UTC
I updated to plasma 5.22 and now it works.
Comment 16 Nate Graham 2021-06-11 21:03:52 UTC
Oh good. :)