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Old 08-17-2015, 03:14 PM   #1
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Question Odd behavior: Cannot start plasma 5 in a laptop after unplugging an external monitor

Greetings fellow slackers.

First of all, let me say that I'm using Slackware64-current, fully updated, with alienBOB's Plasma 5 desktop environment.

My hardware is a Toshiba Radius p55w-b5318, almost new. It uses Intel HD integrated graphics.

I would like to report a very odd behavior I experienced. In sum, I was unable to boot the Plasma 5 environment. This is what happened:

1. From Monday through Friday, I used the laptop at the office, with an external monitor plugged in.

2. On Friday, I stayed home but brought the laptop. There, despite all my efforts, I could not start Plasma Desktop.

Reading the startx output, it is not clear whether the inability to start Plasma was due to a) because kdeinit5 was unable to connect to the contents of the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR or because kdeinit5 or klauncher crashed too early during the startup process. I am pasting the combined stdout & stderr output of startx of one of those failed Plasma starts at the bottom of the post.

I tried to get help in IRC in order to understand what happened to no avail, despite the genuine desire to help of people.

3. I could not start Plasma during all weekend. I had to settle myself to use Xfce.

4. Today (Monday) I came back to the office. I plugged my monitor. Just out of curiosity, I tried to start Plasma again and behold! It started normally. I'm using it now.

Thus, it seems like I now must have an external monitor plugged in order to successfully start Plasma!

I'm puzzled as to what would the cause of this situation, or a workaround. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. Thank you.

Code:
xauth:  file /home/eduardo/.serverauth.5565 does not exist


X.Org X Server 1.16.4
Release Date: 2014-12-20
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Slackware 14.2 Slackware Linux Project
Current Operating System: Linux loli 3.18.11 #2 SMP Tue Apr 7 13:09:53 CDT 2015 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-huge-3.18.11 root=UUID=c0542120-9f6b-4cc5-80d4-90fa17dc0b53 ro
Build Date: 29 March 2015  08:49:49PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 14 22:01:39 2015
(==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
xset:  bad font path element (#10), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 5638, result = 0
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5: opened connection to :0
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_kded5'
kdeinit5: Launched KDED, pid = 5640 result = 0
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_kcminit_startup'
kdeinit5: Launched 'kcminit_startup', pid = 5641 result = 0
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
kdeinit5: Got EXT_EXEC '/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5'
kf5.kinit.klauncher: "/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5" (pid 5647) up and running.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5"
checking file timestamps
timestamps check ok
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ()
kdeinit5: PID 5647 terminated.
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5"
kf5.kded: kded module "networkmanagement" still uses .desktop files ("kded/networkmanagement.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "statusnotifierwatcher" still uses .desktop files ("kded/statusnotifierwatcher.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "kscreen" still uses .desktop files ("kded/kscreen.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "soliduiserver" still uses .desktop files ("kded/soliduiserver.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "solidautoeject" still uses .desktop files ("kded/solidautoeject.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "recentdocumentsnotifier" still uses .desktop files ("kded/recentdocumentsnotifier.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "kwrited" still uses .desktop files ("kded/kwrited.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "printmanager" still uses .desktop files ("kded/printmanager.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "networkwatcher" still uses .desktop files ("kded/networkwatcher.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "platformstatus" still uses .desktop files ("kded/platformstatus.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "ktimezoned" still uses .desktop files ("kded/ktimezoned.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "freespacenotifier" still uses .desktop files ("kded/freespacenotifier.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "networkstatus" still uses .desktop files ("kded/networkstatus.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "proxyscout" has already been found using JSON metadata, please don't install the now unneeded .desktop file ("kded/proxyscout.desktop").
kf5.kded: kded module "keyboard" still uses .desktop files ("kded/keyboard.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "remotedirnotify" still uses .desktop files ("kded/remotedirnotify.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "desktopnotifier" still uses .desktop files ("kded/desktopnotifier.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "appmenu" still uses .desktop files ("kded/appmenu.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "powerdevil" still uses .desktop files ("kded/powerdevil.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "touchpad" still uses .desktop files ("kded/touchpad.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "ksysguard" still uses .desktop files ("kded/ksysguard.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "kded_baloosearch_kio" still uses .desktop files ("kded/baloosearchfolderupdater.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: kded module "khotkeys" still uses .desktop files ("kded/khotkeys.desktop"). Please port it to JSON metadata.
kf5.kded: found kded module "networkmanagement" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "networkmanagement"
kf5.kded: found kded module "statusnotifierwatcher" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "statusnotifierwatcher"
kf5.kded: found kded module "kscreen" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "kscreen"
kf5.kded: found kded module "printmanager" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "printmanager"
kf5.kded: found kded module "powerdevil" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "powerdevil"
kf5.kded: found kded module "ksysguard" by prepending 'kded_' to the library path, please fix your metadata.
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "ksysguard"
kf5.kded: Successfully loaded module "kded_baloosearch_kio"
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5"
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/lib64/kf5/kconf_update' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/lib64/kf5/kconf_update'
kf5.kinit.klauncher: "/usr/lib64/kf5/kconf_update" (pid 5649) up and running.
kdeinit5: PID 5649 terminated.
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
powerdevil: Loading UPower backend...
powerdevil: Success!
powerdevil: Backend loaded, loading core
powerdevil: Core loaded, initializing backend
powerdevil: Using XRandR
powerdevil: Screen brightness value:  937
powerdevil: Screen brightness value max:  937
powerdevil: current screen brightness value:  937
powerdevil: Can suspend
powerdevil: Can hibernate
powerdevil: Backend is ready, KDE Power Management system initialized
powerdevil: A new battery was detected
XSync seems available and ready
XSync Inited
Supported, init completed
powerdevil: The session is not registered with ck
powerdevil: Got a valid offer for  "DPMSControl"
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
powerdevil: Core is ready, registering various services on the bus...
powerdevil: Can't contact systemd
powerdevil: Can't contact ck
powerdevil: We are now into activity  "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
powerdevil: () ()
powerdevil: () ()
powerdevil: Loading profile for unplugged AC
powerdevil: Activity is not forcing a profile
powerdevil: 
powerdevil: Loading timeouts with  120000
Created alarm 14680065
Created alarm 14680070
Created alarm 14680071
powerdevil: Profiles:  "Battery" ""
powerdevil: Screen brightness value max:  937
powerdevil: Can't contact systemd
powerdevil: Can't contact ck
powerdevil: set screen brightness value:  562
powerdevil: Screen brightness value:  937
powerdevil: Handle button events action could not check for screen configuration
Created alarm 14680072
Created alarm 14680073
Created alarm 14680074
Created alarm 14680075
QDBusConnection: name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.9'
detected kglobalaccel restarting, re-registering all shortcut keys
kdeinit5: Got EXT_EXEC '/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5' from launcher.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5'
kf5.kinit.klauncher: "/usr/bin/kbuildsycoca5" (pid 5665) up and running.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kscreen: launcherDataAvailable: "org.kde.KScreen.Backend.XRandR"
kbuildsycoca5 running...
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5"
Reusing existing ksycoca
kscreen.kded: Config KScreen::Config(0x1bc6430) is ready
kscreen.kded: Applying config
kscreen.kded: Calculating config ID for KScreen::Config(0x1bc6430)
kscreen.kded: 	Part of the Id:  "9538e733641976d1c2585d0f96000409"
kscreen.kded: 	Config ID: "d8068ccc1808dc214582a2316561cd9b"
kscreen.kded: Calculating config ID for KScreen::Config(0x1bc6430)
kscreen.kded: 	Part of the Id:  "9538e733641976d1c2585d0f96000409"
kscreen.kded: 	Config ID: "d8068ccc1808dc214582a2316561cd9b"
kscreen.kded: Applying known config "d8068ccc1808dc214582a2316561cd9b"
kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 67 , Name: "eDP1" ) ( "eDP1" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 67 , Name: "eDP1" ) ( "eDP1" )
kscreen.kded: Finding a mode for QSize(1920, 1080) @ 60.0204
kscreen.kded: 	Found:  "71"   QSize(1920, 1080) @ 60.0204
kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 67 , Name: "eDP1" ) ( "eDP1" ) to KScreen::Output(NULL) ( "none" )
kscreen: Primary output changed from KScreen::Output(Id: 67 , Name: "eDP1" ) ( "eDP1" ) to KScreen::Output(Id: 67 , Name: "eDP1" ) ( "eDP1" )
kscreen.kded: doApplyConfig()
Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Recreating ksycoca file ("/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5", version 300)
Still in the time dict (i.e. deleted files) ("apps")
Menu "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
org.kde.kactivities.activities: Starting the KDE Activity Manager daemon QDateTime("2015-08-14 22:01:41.363 PYT Qt::LocalTime")
kscreen: Launcher finished with exit code 0 , status 1
Service started, version: 
powerdevil: Can't contact systemd
powerdevil: Can't contact ck
powerdevil: We are now into activity  "73adec2e-5f44-4626-9627-83ec43183919"
powerdevil: () ()
powerdevil: () ()
powerdevil: Loading profile for unplugged AC
powerdevil: Activity is not forcing a profile
powerdevil: Skipping action reload routine as profile has not changed
Saving
Emitting notifyDatabaseChanged ("apps")
kdeinit5: PID 5665 terminated.
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/kdeinit5 from kdeinit
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/bin/kdeinit5' from wrapper.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/kdeinit5'
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = kdeinit5 path = /usr/bin pid = 5640
KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/kdeinit5 
kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/eduardo/.cache/ksycoca5"
kdeinit5: PID 5640 terminated.
kdeinit5: Got SETENV 'KDE_MULTIHEAD=false' from launcher.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5: Shutting down running client.
kdeinit5: Got termination request (PID 5636).
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
kdeinit5: Closed sockets, but not exiting until all children terminate.
kf5.kinit.klauncher: Exiting on read_socket errno: 11
kdeinit5: PID 5638 terminated.
Initializing  "kcm_input" :  "kcminit_mouse"
Initializing  "kded_touchpad" :  "kcminit_touchpad"
Width:  3014  height:  1670
Approx. resX:  33  resY:  33
Touchpad resolution: x:  33  y:  32
Final resolution x: 33  y: 32
Initializing  "kcm_access" :  "kcminit_access"
klauncher not running... launching kdeinit
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 5676, result = 0
kdeinit5: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
"KLauncher could not be reached via D-Bus. Error when calling start_service_by_desktop_name:
The name org.kde.klauncher5 was not provided by any .service files
"
Initializing  "kcm_style" :  "kcminit_style"
kdeinit5: PID 5641 terminated.
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/tmp/runtime-eduardo/kdeinit5__0) failed: : Connection refused
kf5.kiconthemes: "Theme tree: (Breeze)"
/usr/bin/startkde: line 388:  5682 Segmentation fault      kwrapper5 ksmserver $KDEWM $KSMSERVEROPTIONS
startkde: Shutting down...
QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-eduardo'
kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/tmp/runtime-eduardo/kdeinit5__0) failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
xinit: connection to X server lost

waiting for X server to shut down kdeinit5: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit5: sending SIGHUP to children.
kdeinit5: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit5: Exit.
(EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch 'libkdeinit5_klauncher'
kdeinit5: Launched KLauncher, pid = 5708, result = 0
kdeinit5: Got EXEC_NEW '/usr/bin/kglobalaccel5' from wrapper.
kdeinit5: preparing to launch '/usr/bin/kglobalaccel5'
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0
kdeinit5: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display :0
 
Old 08-19-2015, 05:11 AM   #2
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Have you tried yet, to create a fresh new user account to see if the problem occurs for new users as well? Could be that something in your homedirectory's configuration files is causing this.
I use my laptop with Slackware64-current and Plasma 5 at home, and at work. At work I plugin an extra monitor, like you. I never had any issues with that.
At some point in your error log, powerdevil seems to lose connection with ConsoleKit:
Code:
powerdevil: The session is not registered with ck
and that seems to be the point where things go wrong.
 
  


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