El 19/7/25 a las 5:05, Philip Webb escribió: > A few weeks ago, a weekly update resulted in KDE failing to start ; > as it needed to be updated anyway, I have been using Fluxbox instead. > During the past few days, I removed all the old KDE pkgs, > did an update of all the Qt pkgs which were installed > & re-installed all the previous KDE pkgs in their new versions, > so that I now have Qt 5.15.17 + 6.9.1 , KDE Frameworks 6.13.0 , > Plasma 6.3.5 + Apps 25.04.2 . > > I use OpenRC with 'startx' + '.xinitrc' : > for Fluxbox, the latter is simply 'startfluxbox' , > for KDE, it's 'exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11', > which worked with the old version of KDE & is recommended in Gentoo Wiki. > > Now when I enter 'startx', I get a black screen + a movable mouse-pointer, > but nothing else, & have to restart the machine & return to Fluxbox. > There is an error msg : "$DISPLAY is not set or can't connect to server". > > Gentoo Wiki seems to recommend using 'sddm' instead of 'startx', > which it describes at "the old method". I have 'elogind' 2.55.17 installed. > > I've looked at the logs in /var/log , but can't see anything relevant. > > Can anyone suggest what may have gone wrong ? > Might it be advisable to use 'sddm' in future ?
250719 Javier Martinez replied : ... > EPERM and EACCES usually are the critital errors you must find. > Also you could see at the end "killed by SIGSEGV or something like this", I've checked all 3 terms & see no sign of a critical error. Does anyone else have any advice ? Has no-one else experienced this ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatcadotinterdotnet
