Black screen on shutdown/restart

[anon9361]

Hi, first proper post here, please go easy on me

I recently had to reinstall Manjaro because I managed to kill GRUB (that one is on me).

Whenever I try to shutdown/restart, either through the KDE menu or terminal, my laptop is stuck at a black screen with cursor. I can launch things using my shortcuts, but they don’t open on my screen. I can force shutdown using the power button, but I know that’s a big no-no.

I’d appreciate any suggestions on how to diagnose and fix this. I’d post some logs, but have no idea where to start.

Running the 6.10.11-2 kernel and KDE 6.1.5.

Thanks in advance.

[kisun]

Hello @anon9361,

please take a look in here:

KDE UI Shutdown broken, but not the command-line

What triggered I installed updates that have come out over the past day/days. Problem When shutting the laptop down via the UI, the laptop goes to a black screen with the mouse cursor still visible and hangs there. This happens every single time shutdown in such way is attempted, here are the last logs since when shutdown is initiated. Oct 02 21:48:08 my_username systemd[654]: Created slice Slice /app/dbus-:1.2-org.kde.LogoutPrompt. Oct 02 21:48:08 my_username systemd[654]: Started dbus-:1.2-o…

[Nachlese]

Just from reading through the threads with similar titles/issues I’d say that this is related to a feature in Plasma.
“Start with previous session” or “restore / keep previous session” or a name similar to that.
I don’t use Plasma and can’t advise. I just read about it here many times.
Selecting “start with empty session” or however it is named
was the solution for many with your kind of problem.

Read and find those threads and see whether that helps.

[anon9361]

Going to settings > session > session restore and selecting “start with an empty session” fixed the issue.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

[soundofthunder]

@anon9361

Going to settings > session > session restore and selecting “start with an empty session” fixed the issue.

As was noted as the solution in the thread that @kisun directed you to. I have adjusted this thread’s solution accordingly.

This was also clearly listed in the Stable Update Announcement, which you should always check before updating, and before raising a support issue;

the problem and solution was mentioned here:

• KDE Plasma hangs on Shutdown, Restart and Logout

Cheers.