Re: rebooting after upgrade alway a complete mess

[inkbottle <inkbottle007@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, May 27, 2017 4:38:09 PM CEST Ferdinand Thommes wrote:
> Did you check the journal? A quest like 'journalctl -b -1' would show the

Thanks for the command...
It happens there are tones of errors,
from 3 sources
kscreen                       (like journalctl -b -3|egrep kscreen|wc -l => 
26390)
sddm-greeter (and sddm)
systemd

Actually everything broke, and kscreen has huge difficulties dealing with the 
dual screen

Minutes ago, kde failed to remember that the laptop screen is not to be used 
and that it is the external screen that is used; which has consequence that 
when I turned the external screen on and start typing the screen remained off 
because of no input...

Had to go in the cupboard to reach the laptop, open the lid, and see things 
went awry, completely.

Also, I recall it is not a new error, it is sth that's running for months, if 
not years

plasma + multiple monitors,
sddm not showing cursor,
mpv and compositor
are also errors with many occurrences on the net

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What I do is try to sort the "journalctl -b -3" according to what I remember 
happened

And then I'll put it here

And yes it is a complete mess


> logs of your last boot, not the current one. I have not experienced that
> behaviour in Sid at all.
> > inkbottle <inkbottle007@gmail.com> hat am 26. Mai 2017 um 18:32
> > geschrieben:
> > 
> > 
> > Still this very problematic issue I am the only one to experience.
> > 
> > 1 - upgrade
> > 2 - clicking "reboot"
> > a - take at least 4 minutes to.. actually only logout.
> > b - then click on "reboot"
> > Does reboot but actually it hasn't shown the "booting debian splash
> > screen" (I might have missed it though).
> > c - when showing SDDM, then take at least 4 minutes (counting with a stop
> > watch) to show the mouse pointer. (what is it doing during that time is a
> > mystery)
> > 3 - reboot to be safe
> > a - shows splash screen (boot)
> > b - shows mouse pointer in less than a minute.
> > 4 - reboot to be safe
> > a - 4 minutes to show mouse pointer (sddm) (w/o counting the time to reach
> > the stop watch)
> > 4 - login
> > a - try "mpv" in no full screen -> OK
> > b - try mpv in fs -> OK
> > c - 30 min later or so try mpv again
> > -> kwin or plasmashell or whatever freeze
> > d - as usually I have a chance to access menu and click logout.
> > e - sddm take more than 2 minutes to show mouse pointer.
> > 
> > I'm am a lousy sys admin, so I won't even try to investigate.
> > 
> > Apart from upgrade time, I never turn off my computer, so I can't say...
> > 
> > (dual screen w. display port (rather external than dual), thinkpad x230,
> > intel graphics, lid closed: I am the one and only experiencing that...
> > however that might change when testing-sid is the new stable)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Best,
> > Chris