Hi Scott, thanks for your prompt response.
On Sunday, January 10, 2016, 16:01:56 Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Saturday, January 09, 2016 01:44:09 PM Peter Pöschl wrote: > > what is the proper package to file a burgreport regarding the plasma > > desktop startup? > > > > On an amd64 system running Testing, when I hit Enter on the password entry > > > > of the sddm login screen (Elarun theme) one of 3 things happen: > > 1) probability about 50 %: > > * login screen stays, progress bar goes to 100 %. > > * login screen fades into a black screen, i.e. *no working desktop*. > > > > On this screen, a krusader window is running, started via Autostart. > > I can start a separate konsole window from krusader and > > other GUI-programs, e.g. iceweasel, from the shell. > > > > * Alt-Ctrl-Del gives me a popup to logout. > > * re-login then usually works, but I had one case where I had to > > > > repeat the logout/login again. > > > > 2) probability about 50 %: > > * screen turns completely black. > > * login screen re-appears, progress bar now at 100 %. > > * login screen fades into desktop screen, everything works fine. > > > > 3) probability small: > > * login screen stays, progress bar goes to 100 %. > > * login screen fades into desktop screen, everything works fine. > > > > What additional data should I add to provide a meaningful bugreport? > > P.S.: Please keep me on CC, as I am not subscribed on the list. > > Make sure you have sddm 0.13 which recently transitioned to testing > installed. It also brings a Recommends on libpam-systemd (for systemd users > - that being the default) which you also want. Those two together are > expected to resolve some issue that had symptoms similar to yours. I have now updated to ii cgmanager 0.39-2 amd64 ii libpam-systemd:amd64 228-4 amd64 ii sddm 0.13.0-1 amd64 ii sddm-theme-elarun 0.13.0-1 all ii systemd 228-4 amd64 The probability of 3) may have risen, but today I have seen 1) again. ----- 'journalctl -xe' has this Jan 20 20:04:01 Gehenna kernel: [ 15.206227] Adjusting tsc more than 11% (5285504 vs 5285151) Jan 20 20:04:14 Gehenna org.freedesktop.systemd1[1745]: ** (process:1778): WARNING **: Could not connect to cgmanager: Could not connect: No such file or directory Jan 20 20:04:14 Gehenna org.freedesktop.systemd1[1745]: ** (process:1778): CRITICAL **: Unable to acquire bus name 'org.freedesktop.systemd1'. Quitting. Jan 20 20:05:06 Gehenna org.kde.kglobalaccel[1745]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die? Jan 20 20:05:13 Gehenna org.freedesktop.systemd1[2155]: ** (process:2188): WARNING **: Could not connect to cgmanager: Could not connect: No such file or directory Jan 20 20:05:13 Gehenna org.freedesktop.systemd1[2155]: ** (process:2188): CRITICAL **: Unable to acquire bus name 'org.freedesktop.systemd1'. Quitting. ----- The lines starting at 20:05:06 are IMO related to the logout/re-login after a bad desktop following login. In prior logs I only see the two lines after 20:04:14. What can I do to get you better data to diagnose the problem? Regards, Peter Pöschl
