[07:01] <lordievader> Good morning
[07:38] <iomari891> greetings, I keep losing my plasma effects and have to relogin to get them back. This becoming more frequent everyday. Today I booted my laptop and no effects were active on the initial boot. This is the 1st time that I noticed that it happend on a fresh boot. I'm usung kubuntu 21.04 and it's latest plasma.
[07:40] <valorie> iomari891: please check the permissions in your HOME (usually called by your username)
[07:41] <valorie> it sounds as if you have used a sudo command when you shouldn't have, which changed the permission in the ~/.config folder so your choices are not being saved
[07:41] <valorie> !permissions
[07:42] <valorie> it might be chmod you have to run; it's been awhile
[07:42] <valorie> !chmod
[07:42]  * valorie goes to bed
[08:13] <iomari891> valorie: sorry, just seeing your post. It's not permissions or ownership.
[12:21] <BluesKaj> Hi all
[13:21] <magic_ninja> I'm having issues with the compositor. I used to be able to enable/disable without any issues. Now, when disabled, firefox won't start. It crashes.
[13:21] <magic_ninja> I also get random crashes.
[13:26] <BluesKaj> why disable it?
[13:27] <magic_ninja> That isn't really relevant, as it shouldn't be happening.
[13:28] <magic_ninja> Sorry, I don't want to go into a long deal about why I'm doing what I'm doing, when I've been doing it for years and now a problem has presented itself.
[13:29] <BluesKaj> I haven't bothered disabling the compositor for yrs so i'm not aware of any bugs or problems with disabling it
[13:30] <magic_ninja> there haven't been any issues for me ever
[13:30] <oerheks> wayland or xorg?
[13:31] <magic_ninja> but I've updated and now there is an issue and a bug report can't be filed, or it can't be troubleshot if I have no clue what part of the system is doing it or what logs to check and see what is happening.
[13:31] <magic_ninja> oerheks, xorg
[13:33] <magic_ninja> but firefox won't start, plasmashell freezes up
[13:33] <magic_ninja> I can turn on compositor and it snaps right back
[13:33] <magic_ninja> I want to try clearing out my configuration files
[13:34] <magic_ninja> I've had a few "black screen" startups here and there. I think it might help
[13:34] <BluesKaj> brb
[13:34] <magic_ninja> brb
[13:37] <magic_ninja> okay, I reset my work space
[13:39] <BluesKaj> hmm, disabled the compositor...no issues so far, firefox launches and holds
[13:42] <magic_ninja> i just had to reboot because it locked everything up
[13:42] <BluesKaj> driver issues maybe ?
[13:42] <magic_ninja> tried three drivers
[13:43] <magic_ninja> but a driver update did not happen before this issue started
[13:43] <BluesKaj> which gpu?
[13:43] <magic_ninja> Client: HexChat 2.14.3 • OS: Ubuntu "hirsute" 21.04 • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (800MHz) • Memory: Physical: 30.6 GiB Total (28.1 GiB Free) Swap: 30.5 GiB Total (30.5 GiB Free) • Storage: 4.2 TB / 6.8 TB (2.6 TB Free) • VGA: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] @ Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Controller • Uptime: 2m 0s
[13:43] <magic_ninja> at this point it might be faster to try a reinstall
[16:04] <magic_ninja> the problem is gone now. I ended up having to get a daily build ISO to get past that shim bug and I'm up and running.
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 How can I start x? I crashed and when I reboot I have this above. It looks like a TTY but does not accept commands.
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 Use any other device to format usb (re @Anarchotaoist: Ugh! So, I am going to have to re-install my Kubuntu. Now another problem - my other machine is refusing to mount my USB sticks - AGAIN! This happened a week ago and I discovered exfat-utils and exfat-fuse were no longer installed. After installing and reformating the stick it worked.  Now Ventoy will not mount! I reformatted it and it will still not mount. I mount it from KDEpartition man
[23:22] <toobookoo> is there a specific topic to ask ?
[23:25] <Dragnslcr> Nothing more specific than Kubuntu support
[23:27] <toobookoo> my printer driver want show or connect...I usually do not have this problem using linux...for somereason it says driver not installed