Problem(s) with plasma 5.25

Jeremy jeremy.m.cox at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 21:55:52 BST 2022


I recently cloned the git repo for plasma 5.25 to test it out. I've been
using KDE for years on FreeBSD (since the KDE4) days. I'm running FreeBSD
13.1 stable on an AMD64 computer and I use poudriere to build the apps
using x11/plasma5-plasma.

The issue is, when I try and start plasma from SDDM or even by using startx
from an .xinitrc file with 'exec ck-launch-session startplasma-x11', it
will show the splash screen, and then a blank screen with the mouse cursor,
and then no further activity (no panel on the bottom, no menu to the left,
no icons, nothing). I am able to ALT+F2 and open the run box at the top of
the screen and issue the command 'plasmashell --replace', in which the
desktop pops up with all of my icons and the panel at the bottom of the
screen, the menu and everything works. At this point, I am unsure of what
to look for next. There's also an issue with the logout from the menu or
from ALT+F2 that crashes the plasma_shell with an abort trap, but that is a
separate issue.

I've tried clearing out the cache and configure files for Plasma from my
user account, as well as creating a new user account. It does the same
thing for the new user account as well.

I'm using FreeBSD 13.1 stable stable/13-n251449-b8ab9651b1e

All of the packages were created through poudriere, and were cloned from
the plasma5.25 branch from freebsd-ports-kde repo. I'm using an AMD 4600g
(renoir AMD APU) and am having no other issues with Xorg. Infact, when I do
'plasmashell --replace' everything runs just fine. I've saved my
xorg-session logs created thru the SDDM folder, but I don't know what to
look for, and I'm not seeing big differences between the 5.24 logs and the
5.25 logs.

Thanks for all your help.
Regards, Jeremy Cox
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