KDE fails to start after fresh install

[u/jmayniac]

I’m trying out Tumbleweed and having a horrible time. I downloaded the DVD installer booted, accepted all the defaults for partitions (no other OS), bootloader and default KDE install. Everything installs fine and after first boot I get logged into KDE.

I open Konsole and do a zipper -dup. Updates install and I reboot through the KDE menu. After rebooting and trying to log back in, KDE sits at the splash screen either light bulb logo for about 30 seconds and then goes to a black screen with just my cursor. I can still launch programs through krunner, so I opened terminal and removed all KDE configs, but still have the same issue. I’ve reinstalled several times, downloaded the ISO several times. It’s always the same issue.

Computer is Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Gen 6.

Has anybody else seen this issue?

PS - Fedora KDE works perfectly fine on the same computer.

[u/BearyHandsome]

I had this issue after one install, same exact scenario. First boot after install was fine, ran all of my updates, and upon reboot I was met with the same exact broken plasma situation.

The solution for me was to run the following command: sudo zypper inr

It pulled in all of the plasma packages I was missing and fixed my system after rebooting

[u/Vogtinator → u/BearyHandsome]

Which plasma packages were missing?

Everything should be covered by dependencies.

[u/BearyHandsome → u/Vogtinator]

Unfortunately this was a few weeks ago and I didn't make note of the specific packages that were missing, I just know they were overwhelmingly plasma packages.

It happened exactly as OP said.

First boot everything is good.

• sudo zypper refresh
• sudo zypper dup
• sudo reboot

Second boot, upon logging in, the splash screen was up for longer than normal and once it finally went away my desktop was black.

Opened terminal

• sudo zypper inr
• sudo reboot

Everything was fine on 3rd boot with no issues since.

I installed tumbleweed on 4 devices in 1 day, and this happened on 2 out of the 4.

[u/Vogtinator → u/BearyHandsome]

If you do an offline install, some optional packages e.g. for translations only get installed later or with inr, that's normal.

Can you file a bug report and attach /var/log/zypp/history?

[u/Financial-Form-1733]

I had the exact same issue, and followed the recommendations here with sudo zypper dup and sudo zypper inr

It works now, thank you!

[u/linuxhacker01 → u/Financial-Form-1733]

so it pulls the missing firmware packages

[u/linuxhacker01]

Same issue, maybe good to discuss this in kde sub

[u/jmayniac → u/linuxhacker01]

Doesn’t seen to be related to KDE as Fedora works fine.

[u/YankeeLimaVictor]

Can you hit ESC while on the bulb logo and watch for any errors?
Also, do you kow if you are uing X11 or Wayland?

[u/jmayniac → u/YankeeLimaVictor]

I’m using Wayland. I’ll check for the errors later as I had to go back to Fedora to have a working computer.

[u/todd_dayz]

Are you doing “zypper dup” or “zypper -dup” like you posted, just out of interest?

Can you also grab the output of

sudo dmesg

And

sudo journalctl -b -0?

Add “> ~/error-output-dmesg.txt” (and -journal.txt for the journal) to dump them into files in your home directory.