In past ~3 days some plasma related updates have broken something: on many machines with different FOSS VGA drivers I got a black screen showing mouse pointer only. Usually after SDDM login, but sometimes even while kscreenlock is active. The only way to escape from the situation is to reboot the system. Has anybody experienced a similar problem?
On 12 October 2015 at 11:09, Germano Massullo germano.massullo@gmail.com wrote:
In past ~3 days some plasma related updates have broken something: on many machines with different FOSS VGA drivers I got a black screen showing mouse pointer only. Usually after SDDM login, but sometimes even while kscreenlock is active. The only way to escape from the situation is to reboot the system. Has anybody experienced a similar problem?
Yes. If you enable key sequence to kill the webserver[1] then you can get back to the login screen without having to reboot. I haven't got around to checking if this has been reported yet.
[1] Various approaches at http://askubuntu.com/questions/39571/how-to-set-keyboard-combination-to-kill...