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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
