KDE session display scrambled (was Re: sddm blank screen)

Sun Dec 15 11:25:19 GMT 2019

Thanks again for the reply.

When I do the .xinitrc change and run startx, I get the problem again. 
If I do startx without the .xinitrc, then do the "exec ck.." bit from a 
xterm, I also get the problem. But if I do startx and then run 
plasmashell from an xterm, it's all ok.

Any more clues?

Thanks,

     Graham

On 15/12/19 8:40 pm, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
> Moin moin
>
> Correct; You can check the pkg-message of plasma5-plasma-workspace on
> how to start it directly:
> Create a ~/.xinitrc with the following content:
>     exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11
>
> Then use 'startx' to start X.
>
> As a side-note, can you make sure, that all your installed software is
> up-to-date?
>
> mfg Tobias
>
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 09:54, Graham Menhennitt
> <graham at menhennitt.com.au> wrote:
>> Thanks for replying, Tobias.
>>
>> I'm not sure that I know how to do that. A bit of googling suggests
>> running startx from the console and then running plasmashell from an xterm.
>>
>> When I do that, I get a good working desktop. I don't get the KDE window
>> manager though - I get my twm from startx.
>>
>> Is that what you meant? If so, and since the desktop looks good, what's
>> my next step to getting back to sddm?
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>>       Graham
>>
>> On 15/12/19 5:42 pm, Tobias C. Berner wrote:
>>> Moin moin
>>>
>>> does it work properly if you start plasma desktop via startx instead of sddm?
>>>
>>>
>>> mfg Tobias
>>>
>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2019 at 03:00, Graham Menhennitt
>>> <graham at menhennitt.com.au> wrote:
>>>> It turns out that the problem I described below was due to the wrong NVidia driver being loaded. It appears that I now need to use the -390 version rather than the default -440 version. So now sddm-greeter doesn't crash and I get the login screen correctly.
>>>>
>>>> But after I login, the screen goes crazy. I get a bunch of horizontal white lines appearing which make it seem like I'm looking out a window through venetian blinds. I can make out the icons for some of the programs that are running (Firefox etc.) but it's effective unusable.
>>>>
>>>> My video card is a GeForce GT 730. And I'm running 12-Stable on AMD64.
>>>>
>>>> Do I now need an Xorg.conf perhaps?
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have any ideas, please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>       Graham
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/12/19 10:28 pm, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Following up myself...
>>>>
>>>> Some time after the screen goes blank (about 10 seconds), I get a message logged:
>>>>
>>>>       pid 1178 (sddm-greeter), jid 0, uid 219: exited on signal 6 (core dumped)
>>>>
>>>> When I run lldb with sddm-greeter and the core file, I get the following stack backtrace. Does that help?
>>>>
>>>> In the meantime, I'll try building Qt with debug symbols.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>       Graham
>>>>
>>>> * thread #1, name = 'sddm-greeter', stop reason = signal SIGABRT
>>>>     * frame #0: 0x0000000801c3b86a libc.so.7`__sys_thr_kill at thr_kill.S:3
>>>>       frame #1: 0x0000000801c39c94 libc.so.7`__raise(s=6) at raise.c:52:10
>>>>       frame #2: 0x0000000801badf09 libc.so.7`abort at abort.c:67:8
>>>>       frame #3: 0x0000000801655919 libQt5Core.so.5`___lldb_unnamed_symbol156$$libQt5Core.so.5 + 9
>>>>       frame #4: 0x0000000801656f7e libQt5Core.so.5`QMessageLogger::fatal(char const*, ...) const + 202
>>>>       frame #5: 0x0000000800527e99 libQt5Quick.so.5`QSGRenderLoop::handleContextCreationFailure(QQuickWindow*, bool) + 297
>>>>       frame #6: 0x0000000800528539 libQt5Quick.so.5`___lldb_unnamed_symbol2048$$libQt5Quick.so.5 + 505
>>>>       frame #7: 0x0000000800528cf8 libQt5Quick.so.5`___lldb_unnamed_symbol2049$$libQt5Quick.so.5 + 72
>>>>       frame #8: 0x000000080104b21b libQt5Gui.so.5`QWindow::event(QEvent*) + 907
>>>>       frame #9: 0x000000080059dd5e libQt5Quick.so.5`QQuickWindow::event(QEvent*) + 814
>>>>       frame #10: 0x0000000801839842 libQt5Core.so.5`QCoreApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) + 338
>>>>       frame #11: 0x0000000801839362 libQt5Core.so.5`QCoreApplication::notifyInternal2(QObject*, QEvent*) + 210
>>>>       frame #12: 0x000000080103ebcc libQt5Gui.so.5`QGuiApplicationPrivate::processExposeEvent(QWindowSystemInterfacePrivate::ExposeEvent*) + 332
>>>>       frame #13: 0x0000000801020afc libQt5Gui.so.5`QWindowSystemInterface::sendWindowSystemEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 220
>>>>       frame #14: 0x00000008055b58bf libQt5XcbQpa.so.5`___lldb_unnamed_symbol344$$libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 + 31
>>>>       frame #15: 0x00000008029483c7 libglib-2.0.so.0`g_main_context_dispatch + 311
>>>>       frame #16: 0x0000000802948753 libglib-2.0.so.0`___lldb_unnamed_symbol117$$libglib-2.0.so.0 + 515
>>>>       frame #17: 0x0000000802948804 libglib-2.0.so.0`g_main_context_iteration + 100
>>>>       frame #18: 0x0000000801891e06 libQt5Core.so.5`QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 102
>>>>       frame #19: 0x0000000801834a0e libQt5Core.so.5`QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) + 494
>>>>       frame #20: 0x0000000801839ace libQt5Core.so.5`QCoreApplication::exec() + 142
>>>>       frame #21: 0x00000000002696a4 sddm-greeter`___lldb_unnamed_symbol211$$sddm-greeter + 996
>>>>       frame #22: 0x000000000025510f sddm-greeter`___lldb_unnamed_symbol1$$sddm-greeter + 271
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11/12/19 6:39 pm, Graham Menhennitt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running KDE on FreeBSD 12-Stable as of last week. I rebuilt all of my ports and now I can't get sddm to start properly. When it starts, my display switches to vt 9 and all I see is an empty screen. I've uninstalled, rebuilt, and reinstalled the port.
>>>>
>>>> If I stop sddm and run startx, I correctly get a few xterms so I think the X side of things is working correctly.
>>>>
>>>> Below is a session from sddm.log.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have any clues, please?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any help,
>>>>
>>>>       Graham
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On starting with "service sddm onestart":
>>>>
>>>> [18:11:50.940] (II) DAEMON: No session manager found
>>>>
>>>> [18:11:50.940] (II) DAEMON: Adding new display on vt 9 ...
>>>> [18:11:50.941] (II) DAEMON: Loading theme configuration from ""
>>>> [18:11:50.941] (II) DAEMON: Display server starting...
>>>> [18:11:50.941] (II) DAEMON: Running: /usr/local/bin/X -nolisten tcp -auth /var/run/sddm/{96b45809-91c0-4a86-8533-01e4ef2920f9} -background none -noreset -displayfd 11 -seat seat0 vt9
>>>> [18:11:51.629] (II) DAEMON: Setting default cursor
>>>> [18:11:51.631] (WW) DAEMON: Could not setup default cursor
>>>> [18:11:51.631] (II) DAEMON: Running display setup script "/usr/local/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
>>>> [18:11:51.633] (II) DAEMON: Display server started.
>>>> [18:11:51.633] (II) DAEMON: Socket server starting...
>>>> [18:11:51.633] (II) DAEMON: Socket server started.
>>>> [18:11:51.633] (II) DAEMON: Loading theme configuration from "/usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf"
>>>> [18:11:51.633] (II) DAEMON: Greeter starting...
>>>> [18:11:51.634] (II) DAEMON: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{96b45809-91c0-4a86-8533-01e4ef2920f9}"
>>>> [18:11:51.637] (II) DAEMON: Starting...
>>>> [18:11:51.641] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting...
>>>> [18:11:51.641] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating...
>>>> [18:11:51.641] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning.
>>>> [18:11:51.641] (II) HELPER: Starting: "/usr/local/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession /usr/local/bin/sddm-greeter --socket /tmp/sddm-:0-TFJyQI --theme /usr/local/share/sddm/themes/breeze"
>>>> [18:11:51.643] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully
>>>> [18:11:51.924] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect
>>>> [18:12:00.558] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session
>>>> [18:12:00.558] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended.
>>>> [18:12:00.559] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully
>>>>
>>>> [18:12:00.559] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And when I stop it using "service sddm stop":
>>>>
>>>> [18:22:58.038] (WW) DAEMON: Signal received: SIGTERM
>>>> [18:22:58.038] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopping...
>>>> [18:22:58.038] (II) DAEMON: Socket server stopped.
>>>> [18:22:58.039] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopping...
>>>> [18:22:58.059] (II) DAEMON: Display server stopped.
>>>> [18:22:58.059] (II) DAEMON: Running display stop script "/usr/local/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop"
>>>>
>>>>