On 9/20/21 5:43 AM, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: > On 19/09/2021 14:03, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 19/09/2021 19:50, GianPiero Puccioni wrote: >>> This morning when I botted my laptop (Dell G15) and the login didn' >>> appear, just the mouse arrow. I thougt it was a sddm problem so I >>> switched to gdm and it worked and Gnome started but not KDE(X11), >>> not even with a new user. I installed LXDE and that too worked >>> without problems but it gave me an error about KDEconnect(crashed) >>> and the same when I tried to start Konsole, while the LXDE >>> terminal works. >>> >>> Journalctl reports a lot of kdesomething that dumped core,the first >>> seems to be kdeconnect... >>> >>> It seems that KDE is, for some reason hosed. Is it possible to do a >>> reinstall of KDE or reinstalling F34 is the only solution. >> >> Before taking any drastic measures..... >> >> 1. Create a new user and see if it also has the issue. It could >> specific to your user. >> 2. Think about posting to the KDE list as more experienced folks may >> hang out there. >> > > After every possible thing I could think of , I removed all KDE and > reinstalled it, no joy, exactly the same. Time to reinstall F34, and > this is when I discovered that it is nearly impossible to reinstall > F34 on a btrfs system without reformatting /home too (!?) I thought > that was to point of having /home on a different partition (which > looks like it during install but it isn't in btrfs, I didn't know > that). Having TWO full backups i started from scratch and reinstalled, > and this time "standard partition" and "xfs" I don't think I'll touch > btrfs again until the Fedora installer can deal with this absurdity. > > And now, back in business, writing this in my new KDE!
Thanks for the update. I've been having a lot of problems with KDE since upgrading, too. Sounds like I need to do a fresh install. Riki _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
