KDE via startx locks up before startup completes

[Felix Miata]

[Tonight I did a yum upgrade on a slightly newer intel gfx system, i915G, and
did not have this problem, so...]

Stephen John Smoogen composed on 2015-01-09 09:15 (UTC-0700):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> P4 2.8G, no hyperthreading, with i865G video.

>> F20 and F21 work normally.

>> Kernel 3.19.0-0.rc3.git1.2.fc22.i686+PAE on an i686
>> xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.99.917-2.fc22.i686
>> xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.2.901-1.fc22.i686

>> Installing libinput didn't help.
>> Chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg didn't help.

> I am interested in knowing why it would...

I was throwing darts over my shoulder. :-p

> OK first thing I would check is where in the stack is this occuring:

> Does startx with twm/fvwm2/simple thing work?

None were installed, so I did another yum upgrade and tried again. No change,
so I installed IceWM, which works, and from its xterm I was able to run Konsole.

> If yes then I am expecting it is a KDE item and the kde lists will be
> needed to figure it out enough to punt back to the general list. EG KDE
> doesn't like working with two videos for some reason.
> If no then it is an X thing and hopefully the X people can help you find
> out if it is a pure hard problem (your video card is no longer functioning

Its 11 year old onboard i865G works (subject to
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85016) "normally" in Mageia 4,
Cauldron (2.99.917-3), openSUSE 13.1, 13.2/X11:XOrg (3.0.0git aka 2.99.917)
and Tumbleweed/Factory/X11:XOrg (also 3.0.0git aka 2.99.917), and F20 and F21
(2.99.916-3).

> correctly, needs some sort of microdriver update, etc) or is a software
> problem.

Must be software, either Intel 2.99.917-2 driver and/or Plasma and/or Xorg,
and only for this particular video hardware variety.

> Or three the way you are starting a second startx only worked by magic
> before and some fix in the stack stopped the magic.

>> KDE in F22 works fine via KDM, but after 2nd icon paints starting from
>> startx, either plain without KDM running, or after logging in via KDM then
>> from a vty startx -- :1, the machine hard locks, no input from mouse or
>> keyboard is possible, and remote login dies.

Kevin Kofler composed on 2015-01-09 23:46 (UTC+0100)

> FYI, it's kinda pointless to test the KDE Plasma currently in Rawhide/F22, 
> as the Plasma 5 import is coming very soon.


>> If I do startx -- :1 from Konsole, I get dumped to a black screen, but
>> keyboard works to switch among all ttys, showing either login prompts,
>> shell
>> prompt, or a cursor in upper left corner of an otherwise all black screen.
>> Top on the remote login remains active showing a single Xorg.bin,
>> plasma-desktop and krunner each.

>> I can't seem to find any clues about the lockups in dmesg, Xorg.0.log,
>> elsewhere in /var/log/ or from journalctl.
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