This old familiar problem is back again. Can open a terminal with ctrl-alt-F2 and start Wayland, but Firefox immediately starts and the entire desktop is blank. I can ctrl-alt-del and get a sleep/shutdown/logout menu, but nothing else is visible. After reading a bit the problem may be FF starting before Wayland is ready. BTW, why is Firefox starting automatically and how can I uninstall it?
I think firefox is a flatpak.
flatpak uninstall firefox
If it is native,
rpm-ostree uninstall firefox
Thank you I forgot about the flatpak option and had only tried rpm ostree uninstall. FF is now gone but apparently not the issue. Still have a blank screen after starting wayland… have a cursor and can view desktop overview, but absolutely nothing appears on the desktop. Any ideas?
Are you using gnome or kde? Nvidia?
It’s KDE with all AMD parts.
I should add, this is an old HTPC that I haven’t used in a few months and just getting back to it. Is it strange that I don’t have a login screen? Can I start X11 from the terminal to see if that works?
Hmm, if it’s been a while I would update first.
ujust clean-system && ujust update
Done, but still no desktop.
Coming back to the terminal output after trying to start Plasma-wayland:
Error: could not determine $DISPLAY
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
Does this give any clues?
Again not too familiar with kde.
Do you have any layered packages?
Maybe try a rpm-ostree reset
Also I found a reddit post of a couple people having similar issues.
How they solved it was:
rm ~/.config/kwinrc
Then rebooting.
YMMV
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/uivsmo/black_screen_after_kde_plasma_login/
Thank you for your help with this Plyply.
I’m concluding that my install is fully borked so will try to reinstall.
-S.