ARM devices + Plasma 6 = disaster so far

Pudge · March 8, 2024, 7:45pm

Plasma 6 hit the Archlinux ARM repos today, and I started to play around with it.

I tried to update the Odroid N2 to plasma 6.
Pacman would not run because of kuserfeedback5 dependencies
Removed kuserfeedback5 with pacman -Rdd kuserfeedback5

Pacman completed the update after the removal of kuserfeedback5

Upon reboot, both x11 and Wayland gave a black screen with only the Welcome window.
No task bar, or anything else.

Then I tried to create new ddimg and rootfs images for Plasma 6.
pacstrap yielded nothing but dependency hell.

I am going to wait a couple of days to ensure all mirrors will be up to date, and then try again.

For now, if you are running KDE plasma on an ARM device, I would recommend not updating for a while.

@joekamprad

Pudge

joekamprad · March 8, 2024, 8:26pm

sounds scary
I will go update now

I bet the main issue is the packagelist… also most of them will get removed replaced there are leftovers i see on every update i do from 5 to 6.

Pudge · March 8, 2024, 8:48pm

I found at least one of the problems, at least where creating images is concerned.

In the Archlinux ARM repos, plasma-meta is

plasma-meta-5.27-4

which calls for plasma 5 packages.

plasma-meta should be ver 6.0-2 which calls for the plasma 6 packages.

I posted on the Archlinux ARM forum that plasma-meta needs updating.

Pudge

joekamprad · March 9, 2024, 1:32am

github.com

endeavouros-team/calamares/blob/3d810a12c4b48c2c8fbccfa17c203f832bf7721b/data/eos/modules/packagechooser.conf#L107


      
          description: "KDE-Plasma Desktop - Simple by default, powerful when needed."
          selected: true
          critical: true
          subgroups:
              - name: "EndeavourOS settings"
                description: "Unselect to install vanilla."
                selected: true
                packages:
                  - eos-plasma-sddm-config
                  - eos-settings-plasma
          packages:
              - ark
              - baloo-widgets
              - bluedevil
              - breeze-gtk
              - dolphin
              - dolphin-plugins
              - ffmpegthumbs
              - fwupd
              - gwenview
              - haruna

there we use plasma-desktop and plasma-workspace

Shjim · March 9, 2024, 2:15pm

Plasma 6 still have problem open X11 items

it boot on rpi 5 on wayland

joekamprad · March 9, 2024, 5:44pm

sadly i have no installed plasma on my sd cards i go with cinnamon on my odroid at the moment.

But i can try install one i do have fast brandnew sd card hanging around.