Black screen after starting KDE plasma session
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| Project: | Linux software |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Related pages: | #5416: X.org Server |
| Tags: | Black screen, ksmserver, X.org server |
Description
In KDE Plasma 5, I started a new session and while the session was not completely loaded, I start to tab into another activity, but got a completely black screen, with only the white mouse pointer that I still could move on it.
I went into a TTY console and did:
ps aux | grep X
and kill the pid of the X process.
I was immediately brought back to the session login screen (sddm).
I logged in again and I saw an X window with the mention:
"Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation".
Comments
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Right after posting the above comment, I clicked OK on the dialog with "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation" and the session crashed straight away, bringing me back again to a sddm session login screen.