KDE Plasma won't start AND my computer won't connect to my network

are you in tty? if yes, i dont know how to set up internet via command line…
do you have manjaro usb? we can install the drivers from the live session…

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Okay I’ve flashed a usb with a kde plasma manjaro image.

So now I’ll want to reboot and get into the live session to continue is that right? I’m familiar with the concept, but haven’t done this before.

I’m going to want to chroot and use the live session’s network settings, is that right?

yes, boot into manjaro live usb session, see if you can connect to internet, if not, use usb tethering, make sure you are connected to internet, open terminal and chroot:
manjaro-chroot -a
(this command doesnt work with btrfs and/or encryption) - if you are using either of them post output from:

lsblk -o PATH,PTTYPE,PARTTYPE,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME 

if manjaro-chroot -a worked, install the drivers:
mhwd -i pci video-linux
mhwd -i pci network-broadcom-wl
if there were no errors, exit chroot:
exit
reboot and see if it helped

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Chroot went well, but I’m still not getting to KDE plasma without the live media session. Ping is still saying the network is unreachable.

The drivers now show up with “mhwd -li” however.

Going to try to do system update from chrooted live session.

Edit: update didn’t do anything, said there was nothing to do.

were there any errors from running the update?
post also logs from chroot from the failed boot:
journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager

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the update I ran just said everything was up to date.

[manjaro /]# journalctl -b-1 -p4 --no-pager
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #2
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #3
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #4
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #5
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #6
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #7
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #8
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:   #9
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:  #10
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel:  #11
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: RDRAND is not reliable on this platform; disabling.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: Expanded resource Reserved due to conflict with PCI Bus 0000:00
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: efifb: Ignoring BGRT: unexpected or invalid BMP data
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: ata2.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: ata2.00: supports DRM functions and may not be fully accessible
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: vboxdrv: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: VBoxNetAdp: Successfully started.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: VBoxNetFlt: Successfully started.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: wlan0: Broadcom BCM43a0 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334)
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: 
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: iwlwifi 0000:28:00.0: api flags index 2 larger than supported by driver
Nov 19 15:08:48 cyrano-station kernel: thermal thermal_zone0: failed to read out thermal zone (-61)
Nov 19 15:08:49 cyrano-station kernel: usb 5-2: Warning! Unlikely big volume range (=496), cval->res is probably wrong.
Nov 19 15:08:49 cyrano-station kernel: usb 5-2: [50] FU [Mic Capture Volume] ch = 1, val = 0/7936/16
Nov 19 15:08:50 cyrano-station systemd[1]: Cannot find unit for notify message of PID 955, ignoring.
Nov 19 15:08:50 cyrano-station systemd[1]: Cannot find unit for notify message of PID 960, ignoring.
Nov 19 15:08:50 cyrano-station kernel: kauditd_printk_skb: 57 callbacks suppressed
Nov 19 15:08:50 cyrano-station systemd[1]: Cannot find unit for notify message of PID 1014, ignoring.
Nov 19 15:08:51 cyrano-station kernel: amdgpu 0000:2f:00.0: amdgpu: SMU driver if version not matched
Nov 19 15:08:51 cyrano-station kernel: amdgpu: SRAT table not found
Nov 19 15:08:52 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Failed to read display number from pipe
Nov 19 15:08:52 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Attempt 1 starting the Display server on vt 2 failed
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: FW download error recovery failed (-19)
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: sending frame failed (-19)
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read MSFT supported features (-19)
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station (uetoothd)[1414]: bluetooth.service: ConfigurationDirectory 'bluetooth' already exists but the mode is different. (File system: 755 ConfigurationDirectoryMode: 555)
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support csip plugin
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: profiles/audio/micp.c:micp_init() D-Bus experimental not enabled
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support micp plugin
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support vcp plugin
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support mcp plugin
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bass plugin
Nov 19 15:08:53 cyrano-station bluetoothd[1414]: src/plugin.c:plugin_init() System does not support bap plugin
Nov 19 15:08:54 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Failed to read display number from pipe
Nov 19 15:08:54 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Attempt 2 starting the Display server on vt 2 failed
Nov 19 15:08:55 cyrano-station kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Nov 19 15:08:56 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Failed to read display number from pipe
Nov 19 15:08:56 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Attempt 3 starting the Display server on vt 2 failed
Nov 19 15:08:56 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Could not start Display server on vt 2
Nov 19 15:09:18 cyrano-station systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[1507]: Configuration file /home/cyrano/.config/autostart/org.kde.yakuake.desktop is marked executable. Please remove executable permission bits. Proceeding anyway.
Nov 19 15:09:22 cyrano-station systemd[1]: snapd.service: Got notification message from PID 1528, but reception only permitted for main PID 917
Nov 19 15:10:12 cyrano-station xdg-desktop-por[1574]: No skeleton to export
Nov 19 15:10:12 cyrano-station systemd-coredump[1576]: [LNK] Process 1571 (kstart) of user 1000 dumped core.
 
                                                       Stack trace of thread 1571:
                                                       #0  0x00007f254992183c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
                                                       #1  0x00007f25498d1668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
                                                       #2  0x00007f25498b94b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x264b8)
                                                       #3  0x00007f2548ca00c2 _ZNK14QMessageLogger5fatalEPKcz (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0xa00c2)
                                                       #4  0x00007f254933f402 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate25createPlatformIntegrationEv (libQt5Gui.so.5 + 0x13f402)
                                                       #5  0x00007f254933fa79 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate21createEventDispatcherEv (libQt5Gui.so.5 + 0x13fa79)
                                                       #6  0x00007f2548e9bc05 _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29bc05)
                                                       #7  0x00007f254933fb26 _ZN22QGuiApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt5Gui.so.5 + 0x13fb26)
                                                       #8  0x00007f2549d75b9e _ZN19QApplicationPrivate4initEv (libQt5Widgets.so.5 + 0x175b9e)
                                                       #9  0x000056404b2bf17f n/a (kstart + 0x417f)
                                                       #10 0x00007f25498bacd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27cd0)
                                                       #11 0x00007f25498bad8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27d8a)
                                                       #12 0x000056404b2c1c15 n/a (kstart + 0x6c15)
 
                                                       Stack trace of thread 1572:
                                                       #0  0x00007f2549995f6f __poll (libc.so.6 + 0x102f6f)
                                                       #1  0x00007f2547d6c276 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb8276)
                                                       #2  0x00007f2547d0c162 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58162)
                                                       #3  0x00007f2548eeaf7c _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2eaf7c)
                                                       #4  0x00007f2548e9ae74 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29ae74)
                                                       #5  0x00007f2548cf74f6 _ZN7QThread4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0xf74f6)
                                                       #6  0x00007f2548797a9a n/a (libQt5DBus.so.5 + 0x18a9a)
                                                       #7  0x00007f2548cf371a n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0xf371a)
                                                       #8  0x00007f254991f9eb n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8c9eb)
                                                       #9  0x00007f25499a37cc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x1107cc)
                                                       ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Nov 19 15:12:30 cyrano-station sddm[993]: Signal received: SIGTERM
Nov 19 15:12:30 cyrano-station systemd[1501]: xdg-permission-store.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 19 15:12:30 cyrano-station systemd[1501]: xdg-document-portal.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 19 15:12:34 cyrano-station kernel: watchdog: watchdog0: watchdog did not stop!

there are some amdgpu related logs, and after that the failed display…
post output from:
ls /etc/modprobe.d
find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
mhwd-kernel -li
pacman -Qs nvidia

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So does look like I missed some packages.
At the bottom you’ll see I was going to remove them, but it stopped me for dependency reasons. for ffmpeg & mpv I’d just normally just delete them too & reinstall as needed. But I was concerned about doing that with mhwd-db.

[manjaro ~]# ls /etc/modprobe.d                         
blacklist-bcma.conf  linux510-broadcom-wl.conf  linux515-broadcom-wl.conf  linux61-broadcom-wl.conf  mhwd-gpu.conf
[manjaro ~]# find /etc/X11/ -name "*.conf"
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf
[manjaro ~]# mhwd-kernel -li
Currently running: 6.5.5-1-MANJARO (linux65)
The following kernels are installed in your system:
   * linux510
   * linux515
   * linux61
[manjaro ~]# pacman -Qs nvidia
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-2
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libvdpau 1.5-2
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/mhwd-nvidia 535.129.03-2
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 535.129.03
local/mhwd-nvidia-390xx 390.157-9
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 390.157
local/mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.223.02-1
    MHWD module-ids for nvidia 470.223.02
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.17-2 (xorg-drivers)
    Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
[manjaro ~]# sudo pacman -Q libvdpau
libvdpau 1.5-2
[manjaro ~]# sudo pacman -R libvdpau mhwd-nvidia mhwd-nvidia-390xx mhwd-nvidia-470xx xf86-video-nouveau
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing libvdpau breaks dependency 'libvdpau' required by ffmpeg
:: removing libvdpau breaks dependency 'libvdpau' required by ffmpeg4.4
:: removing libvdpau breaks dependency 'libvdpau' required by lib32-libvdpau
:: removing libvdpau breaks dependency 'libvdpau' required by libva-vdpau-driver
:: removing mhwd-nvidia breaks dependency 'mhwd-nvidia>=455' required by mhwd-db
:: removing mhwd-nvidia-390xx breaks dependency 'mhwd-nvidia-390xx' required by mhwd-db
:: removing mhwd-nvidia-470xx breaks dependency 'mhwd-nvidia-470xx' required by mhwd-db
:: removing libvdpau breaks dependency 'libvdpau' required by mpv

this should not be there:

so remove it:
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf


also the usb has kernel 6.5, so install also a newer kernel:
pacman -S linux65 linux66
when done and no errors, reboot and try booting with the 6.5 kernel - you select it in the grub menu in advanced options…


and dont remove the libvdpau and mhwd packages…

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Okay, nice, that got plasma working!

Still no internet on my install though. I took a picture of the live session’s “ip route show” & “ip -6 route show”. My install isn’t giving me any output. Should I try to add to the route table with the live session;s output?

Would a missing route table explain why it wlo1 won’t be UP at boot and setting it to UP shows NO-CARRIER?

and does usb tethering works? check in system settings/ connections/ wired connection, and under ipv4 set the method to automatic, and check if internet works…

was the wifi working in the live session?

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System Settings/ Connections/ is blank. The phone is connected with tethering enabled.

Wifi was working perfectly during the live session.

Now that I’m in Plasma on my install, I see that there’s no wifi button on the tray either. I don’t know if that is a clue or not.

so the internet works with tethering:?


post output from:
rfkill list

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No, I was affirming that I made sure to set up my phone settings to allow it, but my manjaro install isn’t seeing it.

[cyrano@cyrano-station ~]$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

the usb tethering is a wired connection not wireless… it looks like the network is somehow messed up… the rfkill look ok, nothing blocked…
do you dual boot with windows?
post also output from:
inxi -xxn

Nah, I don’t dual boot with anything.

[cyrano@cyrano-station ~]$ inxi -xxn
Network:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter driver: N/A
    pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 25:00.0 chip-ID: 14e4:43a0
  Device-2: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: igb
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 26:00.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1539
  IF: enp38s0 state: down mac: 00:d8:61:bb:76:36
  Device-3: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: r8169
    v: kernel pcie: speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: d000 bus-ID: 27:00.0
    chip-ID: 10ec:8125
  IF: enp39s0 state: down mac: 00:d8:61:bb:76:35
  Device-4: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 28:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723
  IF: wlo1 state: down mac: 50:e0:85:bc:bf:d8
  IF-ID-1: enp49s0f3u3 state: down mac: 8e:a9:22:26:75:c3

please boot the live-iso and check if your network is avaiable in live-iso session.

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It was working fine when I booted into a live iso earlier. Do you need me to check again? If so I’ll edit this post with the result.

well use

lsmod > lsmodinfo.txt

then boot to live iso and rerun

lsmod

compare them for different or missing modules vice-versa

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the driver is not available, but that doesnt explain why the wired tethering doesnt work…
post output from when you are booted back in your installation:

sudo systemctl --failed
sudo systemctl status NetworkManager.service
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