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#322 Cant open KDE Wayland session, $DISPLAY is not set
Closed: Won't fix by marcdeop. Opened by boredsquirrel.

Closed: Won't fix
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I was browsing normally and suddenly KDE crashed. Black screen with cursor, no output, I could write stuff there. After some seconds SDDM appears and I try to log in but get thrown out. I repeat, the same.

startx works, so its a Wayland problem.

I use fish, but tried switching to bash first, same result.

entering startplasma-wayland give me this:

>startkde
Error: could not determine $DISPLAY.
Error: Can not contacr kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" () exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.

>kdeinit5
kdeinit5: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.

>$DISPLAY
fish: The expanded Command was empty

>wayland-info
failed to create display: No such file or directory

OS: Fedora Kinoite 37.20230321 (updated today in the X session)
Laptop: Intel x64 with iGPU pretty old

Updates: XSession works pretty normal, VLC works again, but I cant set the display brightness. This is something with the display.

How can this even happen on Kinoite? Should I remove all overlays?

fedora:fedora/37/x86_64/kinoite
                  Version: 37.20230322.0 (2023-03-22T00:55:02Z)
               BaseCommit: e04caa3380db6441a984e8ecee8bd9840c95ee33473b1df22937487db2c184c8
             GPGSignature: Valid signature by ACB5EE4E831C74BB7C168D27F55AD3FB5323552A
      RemovedBasePackages: firefox firefox-langpacks 111.0-1.fc37 kwrite 22.12.3-1.fc37
          LayeredPackages: android-tools cheat distrobox fail2ban fish gdb gnome-boxes
                           hardened_malloc kate lm_sensors nextcloud-client pandoc perf
                           perl-Image-ExifTool pip powertop qemu qemu-kvm R R-CoprManager
                           rstudio-desktop selinux-policy-doc selinux-policy-sandbox stacer tlp
                           unrar virt-manager waydroid
            LocalPackages: Elegant-KDE-Elarun-1.0.0-1.noarch Elegant-KDE-Galaxy-1.0.0-1.noarch
                           Elegant-KDE-Neon1-1.0.0-1.noarch McSur-dark-1.0-1.noarch
                           mullvad-vpn-2023.1-1.x86_64 opensnitch-1.5.2-1.x86_64
                           opensnitch-ui-1.5.2-1.noarch realvnc-vnc-server-6.11.0.47988-1.x86_64
                           sugar-candy-elarun-1.0.0-1.noarch sugar-candy-galaxy-1.0.0-1.noarch

Another unusual new bug: I cant update some Flatpaks and rpm-ostree as user (wheel group), I get

error: rpmostreed OS operation Upgrade not allowed for user

I also switched shell back to bash.

I removed many overlays, among them vnc-server which may cause issues as its X11-only
Edited by boredsquirrel

Does this happen with a newly created user?

Anyway...

Please, use our bugzilla to report issues. Thanks. :-)

Metadata Update from @marcdeop:
- Issue close_status updated to: Won't fix
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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