Bug 968892

Summary: Recent KDE update completely breaks system
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution Reporter: Alan Hughes <alanhants>
Component: KDE Workspace (Plasma)Assignee: E-Mail List <opensuse-kde-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Major    
Priority: P5 - None CC: astieger
Version: Leap 42.1   
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Hardware: x86-64   
OS: openSUSE 42.1   
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Description Alan Hughes 2016-03-01 11:43:54 UTC 
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The recent (installed today) update to KDE/Plasma 5 completely disables the KDE GUI; after installing the update it was not possible to log out of the GUI without rebooting the system, and after a reboot logging in results in a black screen with only the mouse pointer appearing.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install the update.
2.Reboot
3.Login
Actual Results:  
Black screen with only the mouse pointer showing. No login sound.

Expected Results:  
Plasma 5 desktop.

Using SNAPPER to revert the file system back to its pre-update state works around the problem, but it is necessary to use YaST to block the update afterwards.
Comment 1 Andreas Stieger 2016-03-01 12:02:19 UTC 
See other bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 968877 ***