https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454345
--- Comment #55 from Ric Grant <rich...@qweb.co.uk> --- (In reply to Pasha from comment #52) > (In reply to Uwe Dippel from comment #51) > > And please, do it quickly! With the most recent modifications, my way out of > > this problem, described several times in this and the previous threads, my > > fail-safe remedy, the PlasmaConfigSaver, was broken. Now calling it up > > results in a freeze, with a black unresponsive screen with just the mouse > > cursor, reproduceably. > > The black, unresponsive screen with just mouse cursor on it is already 3-4 > years old and it's the very reason, besides dancing icons, which made me > quit KDE. Unfortunately, on the contrary of what you report, results were > pretty much unpredictable: you shut down you machine and at the next > reboot... BOOM! > > At first, the only way out was backupping .kde folder and restoring it - > just imagine the pain in the ass of backupping your DE every time you switch > off your machine... > > Eventually, the bug got so BIG that even restoring the old .kde folder still > didn't sort a way out of the black screen; the problem (and pain) was that I > couldn't exactly find what the heck was causing it.... it always came after > initial (long) configurations and a small period of use (like one or two > weeks). "Nice" to know this happened on Debian and some other distro I > tried. I got so pissed off with this buttfuck that you know how the story > went. > > Too bad to know that somebody else is getting the same bad black screen :( Not convinced the black screen issues are related to this at all and should probably be a separate discussion, but in my experience black screens tend to be related to video drivers and just recompiling those against your current kernel usually resolves. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
