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enrico68
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 Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 10:01 am Post subject: KDE Console with no prompt |
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Hi,
I am just done with a full install of Gentoo and Plasma as my DE. Unfortunately, upon login, I found that the Plasma Konsole opens with just a black screen, with no prompt, something I never encountered. As I mainly work with the CLI, I need it for setting up the network and other stuff. While I wait for someone to be kind and lend a helping hand, I will try to see if I can fix it myself...
Thank you in advance for any input.
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pietinger
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 11:26 am Post subject: |
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I never had this problem ... and I don't know the reason for it. I would try to re-emerge konsole with "emerge -1vD konsole" and check whether this went through without errors.
Maybe you will need our KDE developer ... 
P.S.: Maybe edit your title from "console" to "KDE konsole" (so it attracts people knowing more)
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enrico68
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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hi pietinger,
I tried to reinstall the Konsole with your commands, but it still shows no prompt, just a black screen...weird... |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:41 pm Post subject: Re: KDE Console with no prompt |
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| enrico68 wrote: | | ... I am just done with a full install of Gentoo and Plasma as my DE. Unfortunately, upon login, I found that the Plasma Konsole opens with just a black screen, with no prompt, something I never encountered. ... |
Just to be clear, are you saying your Plasma setup goes directly to Konsole, which I don't think I understand, or it goes to the Plasma desktop, and from there you try to start konsole, and you then get a black screen.
I'm wondering if you have some sort of half-and-half system: konsole is part of kde-apps, one of several layers and libraries (plasma, apps, framework and at the bottom Qt), and IIUC missing bits in one layer can break things in the next. I think most users just install plasma-meta, but it's possible to be more selective.
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enrico68
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Hi Goverp,
my Plasma setup goes to the Plasma Desktop. When I start konsole, though, I get a black screen. First, I installed kde-plasma/plasma-meta, which does not come with the konsole, then I installed kde-apps/kde-apps-meta, which provides, among many other applications, the konsole. While doing this, I followed the KDE Gentoo wiki. |
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Goverp
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if it's something wrong in the konsole config files. There should be stuff in ~/.config/konsolerc and similar, and possibly ~/.local/share/konsole/. As I presume you have yet to use or tailor konsole you can safely delete these files and let konsole recreate them.
That said, I doubt that's the cause, but it's worth a try.
Another approach might be to install a different console, such as kitty, and then try starting konsole there, in the hope you get some error messages.
Saying that reminds me that KDE keeps a log file (or more accurately, SDDM stores all KDE session stdout and stderr in a file) which might contain some diagnostics, though in my experience there's a LOT of noise. I can't remember the location of the log, as I use my own code to start KDE.
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steve_v
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| Goverp wrote: | | KDE keeps a log file (or more accurately, SDDM stores all KDE session stdout and stderr in a file) which might contain some diagnostics, though in my experience there's a LOT of noise. I can't remember the location of the log |
~/.local/share/sddm/[wayland|xorg]-session.log, assuming a rootless session.
As for noise, that should be configurable with /usr/bin/kdebugsettings. There are entries for konsole debug verbosity in there.
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