SUMMARY *** NOTE: If you are reporting a crash, please try to attach a backtrace with debug symbols. See https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Debugging/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports *** After upgrading my Arch system from plasma 5.27.8-2 to 6.0.1 i am experiencing the problem. Setup exactly the same as before, so likely the upgrade is the cause. nothing gets logged in syslog, please advise how to debug this so i can provide more information STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. lock screen or wait for timer to lock screen OBSERVED RESULT 1. screen flickers and for ~ 1 second content is shown then flickers then content etc also keyboard backlight goes on and off when screen content is displayed 2. i can enter my password and unlock while it flickers. after that flickering continues on desktop too. 3. passing some time hitting keys and using the mouse desktop comes back and i can use normal. EXPECTED RESULT Unlock system without flickering SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0 Qt Version: 6.6.2 Kernel Version: 6.7.8-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: X11 Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-6600U CPU @ 2.60GHz Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 520 Manufacturer: LENOVO System Version: ThinkPad T570 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION let me know how to get more debug info i can share here
The NVIDIA GPU is not used and no NVIDIA kernel module is loaded Intel iGPU uses i915 kernel module and is loaded in early KMS Bug reproduced on 2nd system Thinkpad T540p.
bug does not appear on Wayland
seems like this is related to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481308
I'm getting the same issue on NixOS. Strangely I was not facing the issue when I initially installed Plasma 6, so it might be because of some dependency update that Arch also has.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481308 ***