Thanks for the suggestion. I had tried that. I also went so far as to
create a new user with an new home and empty home directory as I noted
below. That new user had the same issue so that eliminated anything in
my home directory.
Charlie
On 11/20/2016 09:34 AM, CS DBA wrote:
I would guess it's something in your home dir / config. I am also
running Fedora 24 and KDE, I updated to 4.8.7 a few days ago and haven't
had any issues.
have you tried moving your .config and .kde directories to other names
(i.e. mv .config .config_old and mv .kde .kde_old)?
On 11/20/2016 06:46 AM, Charles R. Dennett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used KDE for years and never had a serious issue. Yesterday
> (11/19) morning I did a "dnf update" and updated to the latest available
> patches (I do this every 2-3 weeks or so). Nothing relayed to KDE was
> updated as far as I could tell, but the kernel was updated from 4.8.4 to
> 4.8.7. Upon rebooting after the update, I got the sddm login screen as
> usual. I entered my name and password as usual. The KDE starting
> splash screen appeared as usual.
>
> After that is when the unusual happened. I got a blank screen. No
> panels (I have one along the bottom), no icons, no initial konsole
> window. Using Alt-Tab showed the konsole window but I could not bring
> it to the current screen. The mouse was active. I noticed a faint
> white line at the left edge. Clicking on it with my mouse and dragging
> it to the right expanded what was my konsole window. Apparently it was
> off screen to the left.
>
> I rebooted on the older 4.8.4 kernel and all was fine. I removed and
> reinstalled the 4.8.7 kernel. That did not help. (This morning a newer
> 4.8.8 kernel and I tried that but it behaved the same as with the 4.8.7
> kernel.)
>
> Thinking that perhaps something buried in my home directory might be
> causing this, I created a new user. That new user had the exact same
> issues. I also looked in ~.xsession-errors. Nothing there that
> indicated any problem. Nothing in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, either. I
> didn't see anything in the recent archives of this list.
>
> Anyone else seen this issue? I'm out of ideas at this time. I'll keep
> running the older 4.8.4 kernel since that works.
>
> I'll be glad to supply any additional information anyone thinks might help.
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions
>
> Charles Dennett
>
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