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Artix Linux => Applications & Software => Topic started by: xqtha2276 on 21 September 2020, 01:00:49

Title: [SOLVED] Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: xqtha2276 on 21 September 2020, 01:00:49
After a recent system upgrade and reboot, plasmashell fails to start.

Attatched is most of the output of "kstart5 plasmashell"

Could it be a cache related issues? Let me know if you need more info (I'd post more photos, but they are too large, and I don't have time to recompress them atm)
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: Artist on 21 September 2020, 20:33:29
The "Cyclic dependency detected" error indicates an inconsitency.
Did you already try to reinstall plasma? Or uninstall an dinstall again
And also try with another user, as it might be config related.
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: alium on 21 September 2020, 22:09:25
Try start plasma with sddm, your can try delete cache of KDE too.
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: xqtha2276 on 22 September 2020, 20:14:58
The "Cyclic dependency detected" error indicates an inconsitency.
Did you already try to reinstall plasma? Or uninstall an dinstall again
And also try with another user, as it might be config related.
Yes, I already tried reinstalling as the normal user.
I'll add trying with another user to a list of things to try.
Try start plasma with sddm, your can try delete cache of KDE too.
I don't think it's a dm issue, since "kstart5 plasmashell" doesn't work after logging in either.
I'll make a live usb and clear the cache.
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: conky60 on 23 September 2020, 14:37:11
If you can log into text mode you could try the following commands as user to clear kde cache and rebuild. They have solved issues for me in the past.

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$ rm -rf ~/.cache/*
$ rm ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
$ kbuildsycoca5 --noincremental

Best regards
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: xqtha2276 on 24 September 2020, 00:47:35
I tried all the suggested solutions to no avail, rebooting and all.

However, I figured out what the real source of the issue was from here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=258149

Oddly, it's an nvidia problem. Nvidia 450 and above causes plasmashell to crash.
Downgrading to nvidia 440 entirely solved my issue once I rebooted.
Title: Re: Unable to start plasmashell
Post by: Dudemanguy on 24 September 2020, 01:06:13
Oddly, it's an nvidia problem. Nvidia 450 and above causes plasmashell to crash.
Downgrading to nvidia 440 entirely solved my issue once I rebooted.

Unfortunately, that's not really odd at all. Just another entry in the long list of problems caused by nvidia. Glad you figured out the source of the issue though.  ;)