Bug#908043: plasma-desktop: Plasma-desktop loads with black screen
Package: plasma-desktop
Version: 4:5.8.6-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
When PC is connected to AVR via HDMI, plasma-desktop loads with a black screen.
Apparently, it queries the EDID of the connected TV, which is 4k. Previously,
SDDM did the same thing. The AVR is limited to 1920x1080 input. Creating an
xorg.conf file using NVidia Settings solve the issue for SDDM, but that file
seems to be ignored by plasma-desktop. The desktop still responds to keyboard
input, but is otherwise unusable. This situation also exists under Buster.
IMO the problem is not with the AVR, which needs to passthrough EDID so
monitors with lesser resolutions are correctly detected. Plasma-desktop
should not requery for EDID but should accept the same settings as SDDM.
Or maybe this is an issue with Xserver?
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages plasma-desktop depends on:
ii breeze 4:5.8.5-2
ii kactivitymanagerd 5.8.4-1
ii kde-cli-tools 4:5.8.4-2
ii kded5 5.28.0-1
ii kio 5.28.0-2
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii libcanberra0 0.30-3
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii libkf5activities5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5activitiesstats1 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5archive5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5auth5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5baloo5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5bookmarks5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5codecs5 5.28.0-1+b2
ii libkf5completion5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5configcore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configgui5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5configwidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5coreaddons5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5dbusaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5emoticons-bin 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5emoticons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5globalaccel5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5guiaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5i18n5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5iconthemes5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5itemmodels5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5itemviews5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5jobwidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kcmutils5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kdelibs4support5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5kiocore5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiofilewidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5kiowidgets5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5newstuff5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5notifications5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5notifyconfig5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5parts5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5people5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5peoplewidgets5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5plasma5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5plasmaquick5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5quickaddons5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5runner5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5service-bin 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5service5 5.28.0-1
ii libkf5solid5 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5sonnetui5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5wallet-bin 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5wallet5 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5widgetsaddons5 5.28.0-3
ii libkf5windowsystem5 5.28.0-2
ii libkf5xmlgui5 5.28.0-1
ii libkfontinst5 4:5.8.6-1
ii libkfontinstui5 4:5.8.6-1
ii libkworkspace5-5 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1
ii libpackagekitqt5-0 0.9.6-1
ii libphonon4qt5-4 4:4.9.0-4
ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 10.0-1+deb9u1
ii libpulse0 10.0-1+deb9u1
ii libqt5concurrent5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5core5a 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5dbus5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5gui5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5network5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5printsupport5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5qml5 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5quick5 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5quickwidgets5 5.7.1-2+b2
ii libqt5sql5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5svg5 5.7.1~20161021-2+b2
ii libqt5widgets5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libqt5x11extras5 5.7.1~20161021-2
ii libqt5xml5 5.7.1+dfsg-3+b1
ii libscim8v5 1.4.17-1+b1
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1
ii libtaskmanager6 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libx11-xcb1 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxcb-record0 1.12-1
ii libxcb-xkb1 1.12-1
ii libxcb1 1.12-1
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+deb9u1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.3-1
ii libxi6 2:1.7.9-1
ii libxkbfile1 1:1.0.9-2
ii oxygen-sounds 4:5.8.4-1
ii phonon4qt5 4:4.9.0-4
ii plasma-desktop-data 4:5.8.6-1
ii plasma-framework 5.28.0-2
ii plasma-integration 5.8.6-1
ii plasma-workspace 4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1
ii polkit-kde-agent-1 4:5.8.4-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-kwindowsystem 5.28.0-1
ii qml-module-org-kde-solid 5.28.0-3
ii qml-module-qt-labs-folderlistmodel 5.7.1-2+b2
ii qml-module-qt-labs-settings 5.7.1-2+b2
Versions of packages plasma-desktop recommends:
ii bluedevil 4:5.8.4-1
ii fonts-noto 20161116-1
ii fonts-oxygen 4:5.4.3-3
ii gtk3-engines-breeze 5.8.4-1
ii kde-config-gtk-style 4:5.8.6-1+deb9u1
ii kde-config-screenlocker 5.8.6-2
ii kde-config-sddm 4:5.8.4-1
ii kde-style-oxygen-qt5 4:5.8.4-1
ii kgamma5 5.8.4-1
ii khelpcenter 4:16.08.3-1
ii khotkeys 4:5.8.6-1
ii kinfocenter 4:5.8.4-1
ii kio-extras 4:16.08.3-1
ii kmenuedit 4:5.8.4-1
ii kscreen 4:5.8.5-2
ii ksshaskpass 4:5.8.4-1
ii ksysguard 4:5.8.6-1
ii kwin-x11 [kwin] 4:5.8.6-1
ii kwrited 4:5.8.4-1
ii libpam-kwallet5 5.8.4-1+deb9u2
ii plasma-discover 5.8.5-3
ii plasma-pa 4:5.8.6-1
ii powerdevil 4:5.8.4-1
ii sni-qt 0.2.7+15.10.20150729-2
ii systemsettings 4:5.8.4-1
ii user-manager 4:5.8.5-2
plasma-desktop suggests no packages.
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