SUMMARY Plasmashell refuses to start. The computer gets stuck at starting systemd-edev, and when trying to launch plasmashell through the tty it says that it found xcb but cannot use it. I've attached a journalctl -b below OBSERVED RESULT Tty1 freezes SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: latest arch, latest plasma (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.3 KDE Frameworks Version: not sure Qt Version: not sure (i think 6)
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(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #1) > There is no attachment? Sorry, I'll upload it now
Created attachment 153834 [details] journalctl error
I should also mention I saw that Powerdevil also failed to start, not sure if this is related. Yesterday I updated my system with `sudo pacman -Syyu` and today it just freezes the screen . If I try to launch plasmashell through tty2 it says this: ``` qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb. Aborted (core dumped) ```
I tried reinstalling libxcb, plasma-workspace and a few other things but no luck
Created attachment 153836 [details] journalctl 1
Created attachment 153837 [details] journalctl 2
Created attachment 153838 [details] journalctl 3
I've attached more pictures. I've tried reinstalling plasma-workspace, plasma-desktop, plasma-framework and qt5-base, but it still doesnt work (I have QT5 not 6, but I don't know how to edit my first comment) I've also tried: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/how-to-fix-broken-kde-desktop-qt/70459 'env|grep DISPLAY' doesn't display anything
Created attachment 153839 [details] error from "kstart5 plasmashell"
All those errors you posted are happening because you are trying to run "plasmashell" from a tty, which is not possible. You need to run it on an already existing X instance. What you need to do is debug your errors on boot, which are unlikely to be related to KDE at all. I suggest you ask on the Arch forums (if you're actually using Arch and not some random derivative)
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Oh, alright. Thank you guys, I'll either ask there or just reinstall Arch