KDE Plasma 5.27 on OpenBSD

[Rafael Sadowski]

On Tue Dec 26, 2023 at 11:33:16AM -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 9:26 AM Rafael Sadowski <rafael at sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am pleased to announce that KDE Plasma is available on OpenBSD
> > alongside all KDE Gear 23.08.4 applications as well as Frameworks
> > 5.113.0.
> >
> > Today the 26.12.23 it was enabled and will be available in the next
> > release (or in -current rolling release).
> >
> > - https://twitter.com/sizeofvoid/status/1739641916050792882
> > - https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=170359681610856&w=4
> > - https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports-cvs&m=170359673610818&w=4
> >
> 
> Congratulations! Out of curiosity, do you have KDE Plasma Wayland
> working yet? I saw recently that the basic Wayland stack was ported to
> OpenBSD and now that the Sway stack works on OpenBSD[1] and I know
> that it works on FreeBSD already[2].
> 
> [1]: https://homepages.laas.fr/matthieu/talks/wayland-openbsd.pdf
> [2]: https://euroquis.nl/kde/2021/04/30/wayland.html
> 

Thanks!

Unfortunately no, I'm working on it. I have recorded the situation and
orther issues in the README:

https://github.com/openbsd/ports/blob/master/meta/kde/pkg/README-plasma#L68

I don't want to abuse this thread, but here is the current start process
and as you can see, the DRM device cannot be opened.

org.kde.startup: not a reply org.freedesktop.locale1 QDBusMessage(type=Error, service="org.freedesktop.DBus", error name="org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown", error message="The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files", signature="s", contents=("The name org.freedesktop.locale1 was not provided by any .service files") )
dbus-daemon[37069]: [session uid=1000 pid=37069] Activating service name='org.kde.KSplash' requested by ':1.0' (uid=1000 pid=32485 comm="/usr/local/bin/startplasma-wayland")
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
No backend specified, automatically choosing drm
kwin_core: Failed to take control of /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session1 session. Maybe another compositor is running?
kwin_wayland_drm: failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"
kwin_wayland_drm: No suitable DRM devices have been found
kdeinit5: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
Error: could not determine $DISPLAY.
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" () exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.
org.kde.knotifications: WaitForName: Service was not registered within timeout