I have a pretty annoying problem and I hope that I can find some help on here.
So about 2 weeks ago (I became really sick and had a lot do for work, so I could not tackle this problem earlier) I booted into Manjaro and the GUI showed nothing, except the calendar, which is configured as an autostart application. Usually latte dock would show up as well. I then tried to use shortcuts to get into some applications, but they don’t seem to work either.
I now have to open applications through a shortcut I created on the desktop with “Open with”.
Restoring from Timeshift backups did nothing at all.
How can I get back to the state where I was?
I mean I know how to configure shortcuts and latte dock again, but I have no clue if there’s anything else that stopped working, so I would prefer to get back to the old state.
I am using btrfs and Manjaro with KDE.
As this issue seems pretty random, I don’t know what kind of output would be useful, so if there is anything anyone can think of, please let me know!
Edit: Trying to manually switch to my old dock using latte does not work. Only the built-in docks seem to work. Also the volume buttons stopped working for some reason.
I would highly appreciate some help, thanks in advance!
Check what is the output when this problem appears without reboot:
journalctl --no-pager -p err -b 0
OR
When this problem appeared before reboot:
journalctl --no-pager -p err -b -1
If the old dock is third party app of KDE theme, but KDE 5.25.5 or newer might break backward compatibility. I recommend to use KDE theme very close to “vanilla” (a uncustomized version) KDE theme without using any third party apps.
Thank you for your answer!
As I was not quite sure what you meant with “without reboot” and “before reboot” and what the difference between “without” and “before” is in this context, I just ran both journalctl commands. Here is the output:
journalctl --no-pager -p err -b -1 1 ✘
Okt 10 09:50:53 administrator-0000 kernel: Spectre V2 : WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!
Okt 10 09:50:53 administrator-0000 kernel: tpm tpm0: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working, polling instead
Okt 10 09:50:54 administrator-0000 kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
Okt 10 09:50:54 administrator-0000 kernel:
Okt 10 09:50:58 administrator-0000 systemd-udevd[407]: controlC0: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/sound/card0/controlC0/../uevent}, ignoring: No such file or directory
Okt 10 09:50:59 administrator-0000 bluetoothd[738]: src/adapter.c:set_device_privacy_complete() Set device flags return status: Invalid Parameters
Okt 10 09:51:02 administrator-0000 systemd[853]: Failed to start Update XDG user dir configuration.
Okt 10 09:51:14 administrator-0000 bluetoothd[738]: src/adv_monitor.c:btd_adv_monitor_power_down() Unexpected NULL btd_adv_monitor_manager object upon power down
Okt 10 09:52:31 administrator-0000 systemd-logind[742]: Failed to start autovt@tty2.service: Transaction for getty@tty2.service/start is destructive (systemd-reboot.service has 'start' job queued, but 'stop' is included in transaction).
journalctl --no-pager -p err -b 0 ✔
Okt 10 09:53:54 administrator-0000 kernel: Spectre V2 : WARNING: Unprivileged eBPF is enabled with eIBRS on, data leaks possible via Spectre v2 BHB attacks!
Okt 10 09:53:54 administrator-0000 kernel:
Okt 10 09:53:54 administrator-0000 kernel: tpm tpm0: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working, polling instead
Okt 10 09:53:55 administrator-0000 kernel: iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: BIOS contains WGDS but no WRDS
Okt 10 09:53:58 administrator-0000 systemd-udevd[431]: controlC0: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/78-sound-card.rules:5 Failed to write ATTR{/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/sound/card0/controlC0/../uevent}, ignoring: No such file or directory
Okt 10 09:54:01 administrator-0000 bluetoothd[754]: src/adapter.c:set_device_privacy_complete() Set device flags return status: Invalid Parameters
Okt 10 09:54:04 administrator-0000 systemd[890]: Failed to start Update XDG user dir configuration.
Okt 10 09:54:07 administrator-0000 systemd[1]: Failed to start pkgfile database update.
Okt 10 09:54:16 administrator-0000 bluetoothd[754]: src/adv_monitor.c:btd_adv_monitor_power_down() Unexpected NULL btd_adv_monitor_manager object upon power down
Okt 10 10:02:36 administrator-0000 kwin_wayland[1138]: kwin_libinput: Libinput: event19 - SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: libinput bug: invalid gesture event GESTURE_EVENT_HOLD_TIMEOUT in state GESTURE_STATE_SWIPE
So what you mean is that you would stop using custom dock themes? Or latte dock?
I do not see the journalctl error messages related to your problem.
I did not say to stop them. But I do not recommend using other unofficial theme apps to change native KDE Plasma. I don’t know much about latte dock since I never used it. Only you know this is your custom theme.
