https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475719
Bug ID: 475719
Summary: Plasmashell Constantly Crashes on Startup with Wayland
and Nvidia
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version: 5.27.8
Platform: Archlinux
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Startup process
Assignee: plasma-b...@kde.org
Reporter: sparky123558w...@gmail.com
CC: k...@davidedmundson.co.uk
Target Milestone: 1.0
SUMMARY
I decide to try out Plasma Wayland Session on Nvidia since some people said
that it works pretty well for them. I logged out and then chose the plasma
wayland session. Upon logging in I got nothing but a black screen on both of my
monitors. On one monitor the mouse cursor was there and I could move it around
just fine. On the other monitor, moving the cursor around created that 2005
mouse trailing effect.
I was eventually able to login normally by renaming the .config directory, so I
imagine some features of Plasma on X11 cause Plasma on Wayland not to crash.
The error messages are the same from this bug
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440397
That is what prompted me to file the bug report, but in between now and then I
managed to solve the problem as I described above.
I was able to open a terminal in this state and run plasmashell, it would show
my wallpaper for about a second and then crash again.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
All I can say for this is to have an Nvidia GPU and login to a Wayland session.
Since renaming the .config directory solves the issue. I imagine something
there is the root cause. Maybe because I was using mouse gestures which upon
reading are no longer supported on Wayland?
OBSERVED RESULT
Black screen trailing mouse curson on one of my two monitors.
EXPECTED RESULT
Plasmashell should be running.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.110.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.5.7-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080
Manufacturer: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.
Product Name: MS-7C95
System Version: 1.0
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Renaming the .local folder solved a different bug I was having with dragging
windows around. I filed and then closed here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475677 since I was able to fix it. I think
specifically it was the kscreen folder that was causing that issue.
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