Black Screen on Login

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Fri Jan 2 15:30:54 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:23 PM, David Edmundson
<david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
> I have a new theory as to what might be wrong.
>
> With KScreen's backend being out of process it could be signalling that
> there's a new screen before plasmashell has processed the X events and be
> trying to look for the relevant QScreen object before plasmashell has made
> it.
>
> Could someone put in some debug on shellcorona.cpp:851 before it returns a
> nullptr in ShellCorona::outputToScreen and see if that gets triggered.
>
> You may need to use printf() as plasmashell has this somewhat odd --shutup
> mode that suppresses all qDebug in an effort to make fixing this as
> difficult as possible.

My theory, is that ::load is not being executed though. Otherwise we'd
be seeing things when this happens, instead of just a black screen.


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