KDE Wayland black screen

Desktop Environments Plasma
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EOS newbie here, i have been using EOS for over a year and have just now come to an issue. I’m not very versed in linux but love to learn new things. I have been using wayland up to this point and the issue I am having is somehow involved with Wayland. I can start an X11 session just fine but Wayland starts to login in then restarts right back to the login screen. While in an X11 session I attempt to start wayland with.

startplasma-wayland then get this returned

Pixmap: QGuiApplication must be created before calling defaultDepth().
QPixmap: QGuiApplication must be created before calling defaultDepth().
kdeinit5_wrapper: Warning: connect(/run/user/1000/kdeinit5__0) failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can not contact kdeinit5!
org.kde.startup: "kdeinit5_shutdown" QList() exited with code 255
startplasma-wayland: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Shutting down...
startplasmacompositor: Done.

Looking through wayland-session.log

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

sudo startplasma-wayland while in a X11 session yields

startplasmacompositor: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?

qdbus while in a X11 session yields

:1.1
 org.freedesktop.systemd1
:1.100
 com.canonical.Unity
 org.freedesktop.Notifications
 org.kde.JobViewServer
 org.kde.StatusNotifierHost-2610
 org.kde.klipper
 org.kde.kuiserver
 org.kde.plasmashell
:1.102
:1.103
 org.pulseaudio.Server
:1.106
 org.kde.ActivityManager
 org.kde.runners.activities
:1.107
:1.108
 org.kde.polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
:1.109
:1.11
 org.freedesktop.portal.Documents
:1.110
 org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.kde
:1.111
 com.teamviewer.TeamViewer
:1.1116
 org.manjaro.pamac.manager
:1.112
 local.org_kde_powerdevil
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement
 org.freedesktop.PowerManagement.Inhibit
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement
 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement.PolicyAgent
:1.115
 org.kde.KScreen
:1.116
 org.kde.StatusNotifierItem-2682-1
:1.12
 org.freedesktop.impl.portal.PermissionStore
:1.121
 org.kde.kate-2889
:1.123
:1.124
 org.a11y.Bus
:1.125
:1.126
:1.129
:1.130
 org.mozilla.firefox.ZGVmYXVsdC1yZWxlYXNl
:1.132
:1.134
:1.135
:1.136
:1.137
:1.138
:1.141
:1.15
:1.154
 org.kde.plasma.browser_integration
:1.17
 org.freedesktop.ReserveDevice1.Audio0
:1.198
:1.2
:1.2143
 org.kde.runners.baloo
:1.4766
 org.freedesktop.FileManager1
 org.kde.dolphin-70889
:1.4931
:1.5
 org.kde.baloo
:1.50
:1.6407
:1.6408
:1.76
 org.freedesktop.background.Monitor
:1.8
 org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop
:1.80
:1.84
 org.kde.kaccess
:1.85
 org.kde.kglobalaccel
:1.86
 org.kde.kdeconnect
 org.kde.kdeconnect.daemon
:1.87
 org.kde.yakuake
:1.88
 org.kde.GtkConfig
 org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
 org.kde.kappmenu
 org.kde.kded6
 org.kde.keyboard
 org.kde.plasmanetworkmanagement
 org.kde.plasmashell.accentColor
:1.89
 org.freedesktop.secrets
 org.kde.kwalletd5
 org.kde.kwalletd6
:1.90
 org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver
 org.kde.ksmserver
 org.kde.screensaver
:1.92
:1.93
:1.96
 ca.desrt.dconf
:1.97
 org.kde.KWin
 org.kde.KWin.Effect.WindowView1
 org.kde.KWin.HighlightWindow
 org.kde.KWin.NightLight
 org.kde.KWin.ScreenShot2
:1.99
org.freedesktop.DBus

My system is

System:
  Host: sethlaptop Kernel: 6.7.9-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.0.1 Distro: EndeavourOS
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 20JNS1H311 v: ThinkPad T470 W10DG
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 20JNS1H311 v: SDK0J40697 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: N1QET90W (1.65 )
    date: 10/19/2020
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 39.5 Wh (99.7%) condition: 39.6/47.5 Wh (83.4%)
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-6300U bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
    L2: 512 KiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2741 min/max: 400/3000 cores: 1: 2705 2: 2746 3: 2748
    4: 2766
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.4 driver: X:
    loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting dri: i965 gpu: i915
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.4 drivers: i965,swrast platforms: x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: intel v: N/A renderer: Mesa DRI
    Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2)
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.279 drivers: intel surfaces: xcb,xlib
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  API: ALSA v: k6.7.9-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.3 status: active
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM driver: e1000e
  IF: enp0s31f6 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: 54:e1:ad:45:f6:07
  Device-2: Intel Wireless 8260 driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 90:61:ae:2b:5e:e4
  IF-ID-1: tailscale0 state: unknown speed: -1 duplex: full mac: N/A
  IF-ID-2: zt6ntjne64 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: 86:5e:5a:57:71:f3
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface driver: btusb type: USB
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 state: up address: 90:61:AE:2B:5E:E8 bt-v: 4.2
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 267.64 GiB used: 128.6 GiB (48.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLW256HEHP-000L7
    size: 238.47 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sda model: USB DISK 2.0 size: 29.16 GiB type: USB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 233.37 GiB used: 128.6 GiB (55.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 299.4 MiB used: 692 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 58.0 C pch: 45.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 3013
Info:
  Memory: total: 16 GiB available: 15.5 GiB used: 6.02 GiB (38.8%)
  Processes: 234 Uptime: 25m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.33

At this point I want to try to fix the issue before just starting over again. I hope I have given enough information. Thanks

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Hi and welcome to the forum @1slotrk there are a couple of posts already similar to this have you had a look at them?
Also remember that Plasma 6 is very new for now you may have to stick with X11. Other places that may hold some answers to your problem would be to ask on the KDE forum or see if it is a reported bug (unfortunatly for some weird reason I have been unable to load this today though to checK)
(I’m not an expert just trying to point you towards some help)

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Wow, if I’m reading this correctly. This may be the first case that I am seeing of this with just intel graphics.

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I have been reading for the last 2 hours and attempting different things. Most of the issues have been with NVIDIA cards. I have found one with an intel graphics that more or less stated to use X11 if wayland doesn’t work.

5

Thats sort of what I thought too

6

Have you tried creating a new user to see if it isn’t some config file you have? Also maybe try with a different kernel

7

One thing, I’m wondering about is why is kinit5 being used for plasma6. I checked and it doesn’t seem like anything depends on it. If you remove that and reboot. I wonder what would happen?

8

I read a post about it but no i have not. Let me do that real quick to see.

9

I have a spare machine laying around, so I’ll give it a try for the both of us.

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Hmm, I’ve been having similar thoughts with a few threads that is might be related to orphans. I removed mine after the update and have had a pretty good experience so far. I also only have intel

11

No change with creating a new user

12

i cleared orphans already with

pacman -Rns $(pacman -Qdtq)
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Well nothing appears to be broken after removing kinit. My test machine still logged in to a wayland session fine. Gotta be honest though

I didn’t even know you could do that from x11. Has this worked in the past?

14

Hmm, this is odd, I have a Intel 530 so not so different from yours. Did you try with a differnent kernel?

15

I have never tried so i don’t know.

16

I cleaned my orphans too, but kinit was not removed on my system. I checked if anything depends on it with pacman -Qi $argv | grep -i "required by\|optional for". And it returned none. Removing it did not prompt the this package is optionally required for some other package either.

17

I did try the non-zen kernel and the fallback kernel with no improvement

18

What led you to kinit?

19

The logs you posted.

20

I am assuming kdeinit5 is kinit?