Re: KDE and latest Fedora 24 kernel do not get along

[Charles R. Dennett]

Thanks for the suggestion.  I had tried that.  I also went so far as to
create a new user with an new home and empty home directory as I noted
below.  That new user had the same issue so that eliminated anything in
my home directory.

Charlie

On 11/20/2016 09:34 AM, CS DBA wrote:
> I would guess it's something in your home dir / config. I am also 
> running Fedora 24 and KDE, I updated to 4.8.7 a few days ago and haven't 
> had any issues.
>
> have you tried moving your .config and .kde directories to other names 
> (i.e. mv .config .config_old and mv .kde .kde_old)?
>
> On 11/20/2016 06:46 AM, Charles R. Dennett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've used KDE for years and never had a serious issue.  Yesterday
> > (11/19) morning I did a "dnf update" and updated to the latest available
> > patches (I do this every 2-3 weeks or so).  Nothing relayed to KDE was
> > updated as far as I could tell, but the kernel was updated from 4.8.4 to
> > 4.8.7.  Upon rebooting after the update, I got the sddm login screen as
> > usual.  I entered my name and password as usual.  The KDE starting
> > splash screen appeared as usual.
> >
> > After that is when the unusual happened.  I got a blank screen.  No
> > panels (I have one along the bottom), no icons, no initial konsole
> > window.  Using Alt-Tab showed the konsole window but I could not bring
> > it to the current screen.  The mouse was active.  I noticed a faint
> > white line at the left edge.  Clicking on it with my mouse and dragging
> > it to the right expanded what was my konsole window.  Apparently it was
> > off screen to the left.
> >
> > I rebooted on the older 4.8.4 kernel and all was fine.  I removed and
> > reinstalled the 4.8.7 kernel.  That did not help.  (This morning a newer
> > 4.8.8 kernel and I tried that but it behaved the same as with the 4.8.7
> > kernel.)
> >
> > Thinking that perhaps something buried in my home directory might be
> > causing this, I created a new user.  That new user had the exact same
> > issues. I also looked in ~.xsession-errors.  Nothing there that
> > indicated any problem.  Nothing in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, either.  I
> > didn't see anything in the recent archives of this list.
> >
> > Anyone else seen this issue?  I'm out of ideas at this time.  I'll keep
> > running the older 4.8.4 kernel since that works.
> >
> > I'll be glad to supply any additional information anyone thinks might help.
> >
> > Thanks for any help or suggestions
> >
> > Charles Dennett
> >
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