Bug 22722

Summary:	Black screen SDDM logging into Xfce - easy workaround
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Morgan Leijström <fri>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11, ouaurelien
Version:	6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	sddm-0.14.0-13.mga6.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:	22656
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	journal booting to SDDM, into black xfce Ctrl-Alt-F2 & F3 = OK

Description Morgan Leijström 2018-03-08 19:00:47 CET

Description of problem:
When logging into xfce, screen is plain black.
Switching to another vt and back makes xfce show and work OK.
(i.e Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3)

This *may* be a rest of bug 22488, or not.

Workaround: use another DM
Using LightDM, xfce shows up as it should.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
sddm-0.14.0-13.mga6.src.rpm


How reproducible: Always, on this setup
-which is: 32 bit machine with ati x300 GPU, mga6 fully updated as of now

Steps to Reproduce: Boot to SDDM, log into xfce

Morgan Leijström 2018-03-08 19:01:55 CET

Summary: Black screen when logging into Xfce - easy workaround => Black screen SDDM logging into Xfce - easy workaround

Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-08 19:45:22 CET

Created attachment 10033 [details]
journal booting to SDDM, into black xfce Ctrl-Alt-F2 & F3 = OK

Log (journalctl -b) booting -> SDDM -> logging into Xfce which is shown black -> hitting Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3 -> Xfce is then shown and working OK.

Comment 2 Morgan Leijström 2018-03-08 21:23:25 CET

Did a full update to Plasma5.12 etc in testing, by issuing

 urpmi --auto-select --searchmedia testing 

Now xfce dispays OK when logging in using SDDM 

So this will probably be OK once released to normal updates :)

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2018-03-09 21:53:55 CET

(In reply to Morgan Leijström from comment #2)
> Did a full update to Plasma5.12 etc in testing, by issuing
> 
>  urpmi --auto-select --searchmedia testing 
> 
> Now xfce dispays OK when logging in using SDDM 
> 
> So this will probably be OK once released to normal updates :)

setting this report to depend on bug 22656 (the plasma update tracker)

CC: (none) => marja11
Depends on: (none) => 22656
Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 4 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-08-16 16:24:30 CEST

Mageia 6 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2019-09-30. It is no longer 
maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug 
fix updates.

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan 
to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to 
a later Mageia version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we 
weren't able to fix it before Mageia 6's end of life. If you are able to 
reproduce it against a later version of Mageia, you are encouraged to click 
on "Version" and change it against that version of Mageia.

Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent
Mageia release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them
obsolete.

If you would like to help fixing bugs in the future, don't hesitate to join the
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Best regards,
Aurélien
Bugsquad Team

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => ouaurelien