A few weeks ago, a weekly update resulted in KDE failing to start ;
as it needed to be updated anyway, I have been using Fluxbox instead.
During the past few days, I removed all the old KDE pkgs,
did an update of all the Qt pkgs which were installed
& re-installed all the previous KDE pkgs in their new versions,
so that I now have Qt 5.15.17 + 6.9.1 , KDE Frameworks 6.13.0 ,
Plasma 6.3.5 + Apps 25.04.2 .
I use OpenRC with 'startx' + '.xinitrc' :
for Fluxbox, the latter is simply 'startfluxbox' ,
for KDE, it's 'exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session startplasma-x11',
which worked with the old version of KDE & is recommended in Gentoo Wiki.
Now when I enter 'startx', I get a black screen + a movable mouse-pointer, but nothing else, & have to restart the machine & return to Fluxbox.
There is an error msg : "$DISPLAY is not set or can't connect to server".
Gentoo Wiki seems to recommend using 'sddm' instead of 'startx',
which it describes at "the old method". I have 'elogind' 2.55.17 installed.
I've looked at the logs in /var/log , but can't see anything relevant.
Can anyone suggest what may have gone wrong ?
Might it be advisable to use 'sddm' in future ?
EPERM and EACCES usually are the critital errors you must find.
Also you could see at the end "killed by SIGSEGV or something like this",
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