On Fri, 17 Nov 2023 19:44:49 -0800 Dave Close dave@compata.com wrote:
I wrote:
Until FC39, I had only run Wayland on one of my machines, not even trying to bring it up on the others. Since I intensely dislike the graphic login, I found a way to start it from a virtual terminal like I normally start X11. Instead of "startx", I have a short script I call "startw" that contains only the single line, "/usr/bin/dbus-run-session /usr/bin/startplasma-wayland". (Yes, I run KDE.) This worked on FC38.
Now on the same machine with FC39 (upgraded with system-upgrade) this no longer works. Instead, it produces 248 lines of output and then terminates. Reviewing those lines, it appears that it is complaining about, 'failed to open drm device at "/dev/dri/card0"' and 'No suitable DRM devices have been found'. I'm not sure what device that refers to but there seems to be some indication that it is my display. The display certainly works fine for the virtual terminal I use to run this script, and it also works fine for X11 if I run "startx".
Have you tried creating a new user? I'm wondering if there is some cruft in your configuration that a newer version of the executable is choking on. I don't see any bugzillas open against the package plasma-workspace that creates that rpm, so it doesn't seem to be a widespread problem.