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Re: Unable to access plasma desktop after nvidia drive upgrade on testing



Hi,
i think, i was bitten by this today, after rebooting to upgraded KDE.
I workarounded it by disabling compositor, using openbox session


Libor

On Út, 2021-10-19 at 11:27 +0200, Marc Bres Gil wrote:
> Thanks a lot Sami,
> 
> I thought it was nvidia driver problem as it was the "big" package on
> the upgrade. But you are right, downgrading the libkdecorations2-5v5
> allowed me to access kde again!
> After your indications I've found the bug 996726 which was exactly
> what was happening to me.
> 
> Thanks for your quick response!
> 
> 
> Missatge de Sami Erjomaa <sami.erjomaa@gmail.com> del dia dt., 19
> d’oct. 2021 a les 11:17:
> > On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 11:46, Marc Bres Gil <marc.bres@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Good Morning,
> > > 
> > > Yesterday I've did a apt upgrade which upgraded the nvidia-driver
> > > to 470 on my debian testing system.
> > > After the corresponding reboot, SDDM starts ok, but when I input
> > > my credentials plasma desktop hangs on the splash screen.
> > > 
> > > Now I've installed cinnamon DE (a lot uglier btw) which works, so
> > > seems some problem between plasma and new nvidia-driver.
> > > I've created a new user from scratch to check if there are some
> > > problems with user profile customizations, but got the same
> > > behavior, after entering the credentials on sddm, plasma hangs on
> > > the splash screen.
> > > 
> > > I've checked the xorg.0.log, and seen nothing there.
> > > Anyone has the same problem?
> > > Can you guide me on which logs I have to check to find the
> > > problem?
> > > 
> > > Thank you
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Marc Bres Gil
> > > marc@bres.cat
> > > marc.bres@gmail.com
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Downgrade libkdecorations2-5v5 to version 5.21.5-2
> > 
> > -- 
> > Sami Erjomaa
> > linktr.ee/erjomaa
> 
> 

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